Jammu, Feb 6 (IANS) Fresh snowfall in the Bannihal sector on Wednesday forced closure of the Jammu-Srinagar highway. The Traffic Department was set to allow one-way traffic from Srinagar to Jammu on Wednesday, but the…
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 6 (IANS) The number of deaths due to the collapse of an iron mine dam on January 25 in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho has risen to 142 on Tuesday and…
Riyadh, Feb 6 (IANS) Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the launch of its first satellite for communications from the French Guiana Space Centre, Saudi Press Agency reported. Khaled bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih, minister of Energy, Industry…
Srinagar, Feb 5 (IANS) A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the Valley on Tuesday evening as people at many places ran out of their homes in panic. Giving preliminary details of the earthquake, the MET office…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Delhi contributes 79 per cent of pollution load in the Yamuna river, Haryana government told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday. Citing a November 2006 report of Central Pollution Control…
Panaji, Feb 5 (IANS) A year after the Supreme Court banned mining in the coastal state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet a delegation of mining dependents from Goa along with the party’s…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Vedanta Group on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that if the high level of water pollution was the ground for shutting down its Thoothukudi Copper smelting plant, then by…
Chandigarh, Feb 5 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal has expressed concern over the release of highly polluted water into the Yamuna river and the Gurugram canal by Delhi. He directed departments concerned to ensure…
Shimla, Feb 5 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday issued a travel advisory after an avalanche warning in the high hills by the Manali-based Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE). The…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) India and Monaco can further augment their ties by focusing on areas such as environment and climate change and renewable energy where they have a “strong meeting of minds”, President…
New York, Feb 5 (IANS) Owing to climate change surface of the oceans will change colour by end of 21st century leading our blue planet to look visibly altered, finds a new study from the…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) It was a misty Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 9 degrees Celsius, the season’s normal, and the overall air quality at 306 (very…
Shimla, Feb 5 (IANS) An intense cold wave continued in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday, with the Met office forecasting widespread rainfall and snowfall likely in the state. Residents and tourists have been advised not to…
Kathmandu, Feb 5 (IANS) At least a third of the ice in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region could melt by the end of this century due to climate change, even if there is aggressive action…
Srinagar, Feb 5 (IANS) The weather office has forecast a fresh spell of rain and snowfall in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday. “Moderate snowfall is likely to occur in the valley from today afternoon. However,…
Washington, Feb 5 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that he will nominate David Bernhardt, acting secretary of the Department of Interior, to lead the agency. “David has done a fantastic job from the day…
Vienna, Feb 4 (IANS) The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), an wildlife and environment conservation organisation, announced on Monday an initiative to recycle used cellphones and use the proceeds to finance conservation projects in Africa. The…
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) A wide-eyed owl found its way into the cockpit of a Jet Airways Boeing 777 that was parked for the night at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, officials said on Monday….
Bengaluru, Feb 4 (IANS) A team of scientists from the state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research will conduct a 40-month atmospheric study on the impact of fog on the Bengaluru airport operations, said…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Delhi might again experience moderate to heavy rains, accompanied by thunderstorms, gusty winds and even a hailstorm from Tuesday evening due to a prevailing western disturbance over entire northwest India,…