New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The implementation of new emission standards for thermal power plants can avoid 124,000 premature deaths every year in India, says a new report suggesting 13 measures to drop pollution levels…
Chandigarh, May 30 (IANS) With the opposition accusing his government of inaction over industries brazenly polluting the state, particularly river water, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday ordered a crackdown on polluting industries. Reiterating…
Shimla, May 30 (IANS) Continuing its tough stand against the civic authorities over its failure to provide adequate portable water to residents of Shimla, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed water connections of…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Bringing some respite to Delhi residents, mercury fell by over two degrees in the national capital over past 24 hours with Wednesday’s maximum temperature recorded at 42 degrees Celsius, a…
Chandigarh, May 30 (IANS) While some areas of Haryana and Punjab got relief in maximum temperatures on Wednesday, heat wave conditions continued in some parts of both states. Chandigarh recorded a high of 39 degrees…
Dhaka, May 30 (IANS) The Bangladesh government has signed a $55 million financing agreement with the World Bank to expand renewable energy uses in rural areas. The agreement was signed by Kazi Shofiqul Azam, secretary…
By Haritha John and S. Gopikrishna Warrier Thiruvanathapuram, May 30 (IANS/Mongabay .com) The Nipah virus (NiV) infection has claimed 14 lives, from Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of Kerala in the month of May. Siblings Mohammed…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) India is likely to receive a “better monsoon” than it did in 2017, with the entire country expected to see “normal rainfall” between 96 to 104 per cent from June…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, May 30 (IANS) As Shimla faces one of its worst water crises, sending locals on the warpath and making tourists cutting short their stay, environmentalists warn water scarcity not only looms…
Mangaluru (Karnataka), May 30 (IANS) All schools and colleges across coastal Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district will remain shut on Wednesday and Thursday as heavy rains disrupt normal life, said an official. “We have advised all…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy sky on Wednesday in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 29.6 degrees Celsius, three notches above the seasons average, the Met said….
San Juan, May 30 (IANS) Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times the official death toll of 64, the media reported on Wednesday. A Harvard University study estimated that a…
By Arul Louis New York, May 30 (IANS) The US has accused Indian authorities of not prosecuting cow protection vigilantes attacking Muslims suspected of slaughtering the animals or consuming beef amid “reports of hundreds of…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) As the world grapples with the challenge of climate change, a top Indian scientist has called for the opening of more Indian research stations in the Arctic. “India’s observer status…
Islamabad, May 30 (IANS) Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) issued a fresh three-day heatwave alert for Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi starting from on Tuesday to Thursday, as the mercury is expected to hit a…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Expressing dissatisfaction over the Central government’s execution of Chardham all-weather highway project in Uttarakhand, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked the authorities to stop dumping muck in the…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Heat wave-like conditions continued in the national capital on Tuesday with average maximum temperature recorded at 44.4 degree Celsius, four notches above the season’s average but a respite is likely…
Kozhikode (Kerala), May 29 (IANS) With the source of the Nipah virus outbreak that has caused 14 deaths in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malappuram districts yet to be ascertained, a batch of fresh five samples from…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday asked the Delhi Transport Department to take up the matter of using CNG buses with the neighbouring states. His suggestion came as he…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking the recall of its March 27 order appointing Justice Jawad Rahim as the acting Chairperson of the NGT, asserting…