Category: Environment

Sunny Thursday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) It was a sunny Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded…

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UN Environment starts campaign to end marine litter

Bali, Feb 23 (IANS) The UN Environment Programme on Thursday launched an unprecedented global campaign to eliminate major sources of…

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Install effluent treatment plants or be shut down, SC tells industries

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) AThe Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all industrial units situated in severely polluted areas across…

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You can’t ruin city, NGT tells Bengaluru authorities

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Castigating the Karnataka government agencies over the fire in Bengaluru's Bellandur Lake, the National Green…

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Orphaned, traumatised baby bear finds home in Agra

By Brij Khandelwal and Kushagra Dixit Agra, Feb 22 (IANS) Weeks after it was found crying and clutching its dead…

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Student community in Bengal to help conserve Gangetic river dolphin

Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) School and college students in West Bengal will be among key stakeholders in the national project…

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Baby bear orphaned in MP, brought to Agra

By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Feb 22 (IANS) A 10-week-old baby bear, orphaned by poachers in Madhya Pradesh, was on Wednesday…

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Tuna catch on decline in Indian Ocean, says study

Panaji, Feb 22 (IANS) Overkill as well as rising temperatures in the western Indian Ocean is driving down the numbers…

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Sri Lanka to hike damages for elephant attacks

Colombo, Feb 22 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Cabinet on Wednesday approved to grant a higher compensation to victims of wild elephant…

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SC asks industrial units to install effluent treatment plants

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all industrial units situated in severely polluted areas across…

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Cabinet nod for doubling capacity of solar parks to 40,000 MW

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) In a major push for solar power development in the country, a cabinet panel on…

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Odisha hopeful of world heritage tag for Bhitarkanika National Park

By Chinmaya Dehury Bhubaneswar, Feb 22 (IANS) The Odisha government is hopeful of getting the Bhitarkanika National Park, the country's…

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eToilets: Transforming sanitation via technology

By Akanki Sharma New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Using the toilet in school was an ordeal for 15-year-old Vineetha two…

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NASA telescope finds clues to dark matter at Andromeda galaxy

Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has found a signal at the centre of the neighbouring Andromeda…

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Himachal saves brilliantly plumaged western tragopan from extinction

By Vishal Gulati Shimla, Feb 22 (IANS) As the population of the western tragopan, a brilliantly-coloured Asian pheasant species, hovers…

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Sunny Wednesday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) It was a sunny Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 12 degrees…

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Jammu-Srinagar highway opens

Jammu, Feb 22 (IANS) The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was on Wednesday reopened for one-way traffic after two days. According…

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LG asks agencies to control road dust, fly ash

New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday directed the concerned agencies to control road dust,…

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Thousands of homes in Jakarta hit by floods

Jakarta, Feb 21 (IANS) Thousands of houses in Jakarta were inundated by floodwaters on Tuesday following torrential rains overnight, forcing…

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Figures by foreign organisations not conclusive: Environment Minister

New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Within days of medical journal 'The Lancet' reporting that over a million people die in…

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