Chandigarh, June 4 (IANS) Thundershowers accompanied by strong winds in parts of Punjab and Haryana early on Tuesday brought much relief from the heat wave prevailing over the region. At many places, the maximum temperature…
Varanasi, June 4 (IANS) A group of shehnai players stood in knee deep waters at the Assi Ghat in the Ganga River in Varanasi and played Raag Megh to pray to Lord Indra and urge…
Bhopal, June 3 (IANS) The peak summer is called ‘Nautapa’ — nine days of intense heat — in Madhya Pradesh. Though the period ended on Monday, the met office refuses to forecast any relief from…
Hyderabad/Vijayawada, June 3 (IANS) Pre-monsoon rains in many parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Monday provided some respite to people from sweltering heat wave even as Skymet Weather issued an advisory for farmers against…
Chennai, June 3 (IANS) There is 60:40 chance of good Kuruvai paddy crop this time and one can wait until July for the Southwest monsoon. However, the farmers are keeping their fingers crossed, according to…
Ghaziabad, June 3 (IANS) The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) has filed a case against 35 “land mafia” for selling land of a water body to 500 migrants from eastern UP, Bihar and West Bengal and…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) In a latest advisory issued on Monday, private weather forecaster Skymet has said that this year the country’s southern and central states might witness late and weak monsoon. According to…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Madras High Court order quashing of the land acquisition process for the Chennai-Salem eight-lane expressway project. A vacation bench of Justice…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Amid the rising mercury levels in the national capital, the peak power demand on Monday touched 6,612 megawatt (MW), highest for the season and up by about…
Solan (Himachal Pradesh), June 3 (IANS) An Indo-Israeli team visited the Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry here in Himachal Pradesh to explore the possibility of collaboration in bumblebee rearing, the university said…
Chandigarh, June 3 (IANS) Punjab on Monday decide to desilt and clean ponds in all villages within a fortnight. State Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has directed the authorities that during…
Mathura, June 3 (IANS) Oppressed by intense heat, an eight-foot long Indian rock python slithered to a water tank near a tube well in a village in Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh, alarming villagers. A…
New York, June 3 (IANS) A total of 272 whales were spotted in the waters off New York city last year, an “extraordinary leap” from 2011, when just five of the huge cetaceans were witnessed…
Mumbai, June 3 (IANS) Various spiritual leaders and Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi shall join an initiative for environment protection on June 5, marked as the World Environment Day, an official said on Monday. The initiative…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Amid soaring temperatures, the peak power demand in Delhi touched 6,560MW on Sunday, the State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) reported on Monday. This was higher than the annual peak load…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Northern India will continue to sizzle in the heatwave conditions for the next two days till Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast on Monday. The surging heat will pass…
Sydney, June 3 (IANS) Australia’s first all-electric police car hit the roads in the state of Victoria on Monday, one of the first jurisdictions in the world to take the landmark step. The fully electric…
Agra, June 3 (IANS) Environmental activists here held a symbolic ‘sand bath’ to draw attention to the plight of the polluted and drying Yamuna river. The activists on Sunday evening joined a mass community event…
Chandrapur (Maharashtra), June 2 (IANS) A nine-month-old infant was mauled to death in by a leopard early on Sunday in this Maharashtra district, police said. According to police official Sharad Aware of Sindevahi Police Station,…
Chandigarh, June 2 (IANS) Chandigarh’s Garden of Silence lived up to its name on Sunday with people skipping it due to extreme hot weather in the city. Situated at the regulator end of the Sukhna…