Washington, March 22 (IANS) Four Indian American teenagers have been awarded $25,000 each for developing innovative approaches to address environmental issues. The recipients of the award are Anjali Chadha (16) of Kentucky, Preeti Sai Krishnamani…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) It was a pleasant Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 15.5 degree Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office. “The sky…
Shimla, March 21 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh’s popular tourist destination Manali and its nearby hill destinations received more snowfall in the past 24 hours, officials said on Thursday. As news of the snowfall flashed across the…
Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Marking the International Day of Forests on Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that forest cover in the state has gone up by 4.29 per cent. “Today is #InternationalDayOfForests….
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) It was a pleasant Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 16.6 degree Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. “The sky will remain partly…
United Nations, March 21 (IANS) Cyclone Idai may be one of the worst natural disasters to hit southern Africa in living memory, said a UN spokesman of the storm that has killed at least 360…
Buenos Aires, March 20 (IANS/AKI) The world needs to harness the power of exchanges between countries in the Global South if it is to reduce poverty and malnutrition while rising to the challenges posed by…
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) As many as one billion people in India live in areas of physical water scarcity, of which 600 million are in areas of high to extreme water stress, according to…
Agra, March 20 (IANS) An experimental project to produce “gobar-wood” for holi has offered new hope to bring down pollution levels in the Taj city. For the past one month, inmates of district jail have…
Jakarta, March 20 (IANS) The death toll in flash floods and landslides in Papua province of eastern Indonesia crossed 107 on Wednesday, while the search for 93 missing persons shifted to residential areas buried under…
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) It was a pleasant Wednesday morning in the national capital with scattered clouds dotting the sky, but temperature are set to soar by noon, when the Met expects it to…
Jammu, March 20 (IANS) Fresh landslides in Ramban district on Wednesday blocked the Jammu-Srinagar highway, the traffic department said. The fresh landslides and shooting stones in Panthal forced traffic on the highway to be stopped,…
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Google on Wednesday celebrated the spring equinox with an animated doodle of a flower on the surface of the earth. The Spring Equinox doodle’s reach extended to all of Europe,…
Harare, March 19 (IANS) The death toll in tropical cyclone Idai-induced floods in Zimbabwe has risen to 98 with 217 missing, the government has said. The Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services said in…
Jakarta, March 19 (IANS) The death toll from flash floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Papua province has increased to 89, with search and rescue operations continuing on Tuesday to locate 73 missing people. Disaster Management…
Washington, March 19 (IANS) Record floods have pummelled the US Midwest region with ice chunks the size of small cars ripping through barns and farmhouses and also turning farm fields into lakes, the media reported….
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) It was a sunny but cold Tuesday morning in the national capital, with the minimum temperature dipping to four notches below the season’s average at 12.8 degrees Celsius, the weather…
Canberra, March 18 (IANS) Actor Chris Hemsworth took to Instagram, sharing a photograph of himself and an “epic” animal he said he’d encountered in Australia. Hemsworth took his “first quokka selfie” while visiting Rottnest Island,…
Jakarta, March 18 (IANS) The death toll from flash floods and subsequent landslides in Indonesia’s Papua province has increased to 79, with search and rescue operations continuing on Monday to locate 43 missing people. Due…
Manila, March 18 (IANS) A young whale that washed up in the Philippines had died from “gastric shock” after eating 40 kg of plastic bags, the media reported on Monday. Marine biologists and volunteers from…