Shimla, April 28 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh saw the mercury rising on Sunday, recording temperatures three to four degrees above the average. The Met office has forecast rains and thundershowers on Monday. “A…
Changsha (China), April 28 (IANS) Central Chinese customs have said they recently seized over 1,000 live ants from a parcel from Britain, the latest of such seizures fuelled by the rising fashion for exotic pets…
Amaravati, April 28 (IANS) With the Election Commission (EC) barring Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu from holding review meetings, a senior cabinet minister on Sunday asked who will be responsible if cyclonic storm…
Jakarta, April 28 (IANS) At least 12 people were killed, eight others reported missing and almost 15,000 evacuated as floods and landslides hit the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and Bengkulu province, a disaster official said…
Visakhapatnam, April 28 (IANS) Cyclone Fani, currently over the southeast Bay of Bengal and the adjoining East Equatorial Indian Ocean, is likely to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” on Monday, the Indian Meteorological…
Tokyo, April 28 (IANS) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck Japan’s northernmost Hokkaido prefecture on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. According to the JMA, the earthquake, which occurred at 2:25…
Mangaluru (Karnataka), April 27 (IANS) Global software major Infosys has transformed a barren land into a rain forest in its 360-acre sprawling campus in Karnataka’s port city on the west coast. “As part of our…
Shimla, April 27 (IANS) Soon you can buy organic incense sticks prepared from flowers offered by devotees at religious places in Himachal Pradesh. Under a campaign ‘Yuvan’, Una-based entrepreneur Ravinder Prashar, with the technical support…
Chennai, April 26 (IANS) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the depression over the East Equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal lay centred at about 1,440 km southeast of Chennai….
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Total water availability in 91 major reservoirs in the country has reduced to 26 per cent of their actual storage capacity, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. The total live…
Dehradun, April 26 (IANS) Hundreds of people are set to lose their jobs after the district administrations in Uttarakhand on Friday began closing 17 factories for causing pollution. “We have started closing 17 factories for…
Visakhapatnam, April 26 (IANS) A depression over east Equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. The system…
Havana, April 26 (IANS) Cuban authorities have confirmed the presence of giant African land snails, an invasive species that’s potentially harmful to humans and agriculture, in the central and eastern regions of the island. The…
Brasilia, April 26 (IANS) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree to abolish daylight savings time (DST) in the South American nation, where it has been an annual practice since the mid-1980s to advance…
Maputo (Mozambique), April 26 (IANS) Three persons have been killed in northern Mozambique after cyclone Kenneth made landfall only a month after another huge storm battered the coastal nation, authorities said. The category 4 cyclone…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Illegal cultivation of Bt brinjal has been found in some parts of Haryana, the Coalition for a GM-Free India alleged on Thursday, citing tests it conducted on suspected genetically modified…
Cape Town, April 25 (IANS) With 10 more deaths being reported on Thursday, the toll due to severe storms in South Africa has risen to 70, according to authorities. Heavy storms swept through the KwaZulu-Natal…
Dhaka, April 25 (IANS) A Bangladesh court has directed the country’s telecom regulator to submit a report on the impact of radiation from tens of thousands of mobile phone towers. The court issued the order…
Chennai, April 25 (IANS) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday predicted rains on April 30 and May 1 in Tamil Nadu as the well marked low pressure area lying over East Equoatorial Indian Ocean…
London, April 25 (IANS) Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion blocked the entrance to the London Stock Exchange on Thursday as climate change protests continued in the British capital. The group said it was “hitting the…