Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Four college girls drowned in a raging waterfall in Navi Mumbai on Saturday as entire coastal Maharashtra experienced torrential rains and the region went on a high alert for the next…
Palghar, Aug 3 (IANS) A large cargo ship from Gujarat went adrift and got stuck on the rocks of Vangaon village in Maharashtra following stormy and rough weather conditions in the Arabian Sea on Saturday,…
Wellington, Aug 3 (IANS) New Zealand on Saturday released its Climate Action Plan in response to a commission’s inquiry into the low emissions economy. The New Zealand government is committed to “a just and rapid…
Jakarta, Aug 3 (IANS) At least one person was killed, four others injured and 1,000 people were displaced when a 6.9 earthquake struck the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, officials said…
Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) For the second consecutive week, heavy rain lashed Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad and Ratnagiri hitting normal life and road traffic, though suburban trains and flights continued to function with some delays,…
By Rajendra Shende The seas are rising relentlessly but not the world leaders. Its hot even in the Arctic but decision-makers are cool. Young people are on the streets protesting against inaction, but heads of…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday allowed CNG and petrol vehicles to get registered with Delhi government’s transport department as cabs with all-India tourist permit (AITP) which will be eligible to…
Gurugram, Aug 2 (IANS) Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has issued notices to 366 residential societies to install Sewerage Treatment Plants (STP) in their respective premises otherwise sewerage connection will be cut by the civic…
Jakarta, Aug 2 (IANS) Indonesia’s authorities on Friday urged people living near the coast to move to higher ground after a powerful earthquake off the island of Java, triggering tsunami fears. Officials said the earthquake,…
Jakarta, Aug 2 (IANS) The UN on Friday urged Asian countries, which have more than two-thirds of the world’s 2,400 coal plants, to make a transition to clean energy to curb the global climate crisis….
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Aug 2 (IANS) Amid the monsoon, five of the eight northeastern states experienced normal rainfall while Manipur and Nagaland witnessed huge deficiencies and only Sikkim observed excess rainwater. According to scientists…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) A video of a crocodile trying to attack a dog on a water-logged street in Vadodara in Gujarat has gone viral on social media. Twitter is flooded with people narrating…
Agra, Aug 2 (IANS) A state-level Solid Waste Management Monitoring Committee in Uttar Pradesh has recommended to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that a penalty of Rs 2.14 crore be imposed on the Agra and…
Shimla, Aug 2 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh’s Una town continued to experience extremely heavy rain and received 226 mm downpours on Friday, the Met Office said. “Monsoon was active in the state during the last 24…
Honolulu, Aug 2 (IANS) The US National Weather Service (NWS) has issued weather alerts for Hawaii, as two tropical cyclones were passing south of the archipelago back-to-back over the next few days. The NWS issued…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Aug 2 (IANS) Citing the shattering of temperature records in New Delhi, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world is in “the race of our lives and for our…
Venice, Aug 2 (IANS/AKI) Palma de Mallorca, Marseilles, and Barcelona are just some of the European ports whose heads North Adriatic Sea Port Authority’s President Pino Mussolino has invited to meet in Venice to mull…
Kolkata, Aug 1 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said IT majors Wipro and Microsoft have agreed to invest in the state. Banerjee said that Wipro would be allocated 50 acres of…
Bhopal, Aug 1 (IANS) After nosing past Karnataka to regain the top spot for tiger population, Madhya Pradesh is struggling to stay ahead. On July 29 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was declaring Madhya Pradesh…
Gandhinagar, Aug 1 (IANS) After the rain gods battered Vadodara and struck heavily in most of the parts of Gujarat, the state has registered over 46 per cent of the average monsoon rains so far….