Category: Environment

IAF’s Air Fest in Shillong enthralls viewers

Shillong, Oct 1 (IANS) The IAF's Eastern Air Command conducted its annual Air Fest here on Sunday leaving the viewers…

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Sikkim monastery, fertilizer firm to be felicitated for promoting ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) A fertilizer cooperative, a Sikkim monastery, and a Delhi-based Facebook group are amongst 20 individuals…

8 years ago

Breast surgeon Raghu Ram participates in cleanliness drive

Hyderabad, Oct 1 (IANS) Eminent breast surgeon P. Raghu Ram on Sunday participated in a "Swachhata Hi Seva" campaign in…

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Discussed death of manual scavengers with Kejriwal: Hardeep Puri

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday said he has taken up the…

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Quake hits Andaman Islands

Port Blair/Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale shook the Andaman Islands…

8 years ago

Australia launches ‘thunderstorm asthma’ warning system

Canberra, Oct 1 (IANS) A year after a freak "thunderstorm asthma" outbreak killed nine and led to thousands being hospitalised…

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Delhi to be hot for next 10 days as monsoon withdrawal begin

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The national capital on Sunday saw maximum temperature of 36.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above…

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Foreigners paddling towards cleaner, healthier Himachal

Shimla, Oct 1 (IANS) Foreigners are literally paddling towards a cleaner and healthier countryside in Himachal Pradesh. The central government's…

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Achieving goals of ‘Swachh Bharat’ will be true tribute to Gandhiji: Kovind

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Urging cleanliness be made a national movement, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Sunday that…

8 years ago

Campaign to salute ragpickers launched

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) A campaign to salute millions of ragpickers, who collect used up plastic bottles from the…

8 years ago

Get a taste of holiday farming in Punjab

By Jaideep Sarin Hoshiarpur (Punjab), Oct 1 (IANS) Punjab is better known for India's "green revolution" in agriculture and for…

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Misty Sunday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) It was a misty Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded…

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Evacuations in Puerto Rico over possible dam burst

San Juan, Oct 1 (IANS) People living near the Guajataca River in Puerto Rico were evacuated because a dam in…

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Monsoon withdraws from Himachal; 15% shortfall

Shimla, Sep 30 (IANS) The southwest monsoon withdrew from Himachal Pradesh on Saturday and remained 15 per cent deficient --…

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Bear mauls elderly man to death in J&K

Srinagar, Sep 30 (IANS) A 75-year-old man was mauled to death on Saturday by a bear in north Kashmir's Bandipora…

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5.4-magnitude quake hits China

Beijing, Sep 30 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck China's Sichuan province on Saturday with no…

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India’s stressed cities: Challenges for new urban development minister

By Tarun Basu In June 1990 when, as a member of a media delegation, I had travelled with then Prime…

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Sunny Saturday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) It was a sunny Saturday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded…

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5 cr Indians involved in conserving wildlife: Minister

New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Stressing on people's participation to conserve wildlife, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday…

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Wildlife crimes down over a decade: Environment Ministry

New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Ahead of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) involving 19 Asian countries, to be held here…

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