New York, Jan 27 (IANS) Researchers have identified microplastic fibres, along with a variety of medicines and household contaminants, in two limestone aquifer systems — a groundwater source that accounts for 25 per cent of…
Shimla/Manali, Jan 27 (IANS) Weekend tourist rush to enjoy snowy landscapes in Himachal Pradesh, slippery roads and lack of traffic management in picturesque resorts of Kufri, Fagu and Charabra have brought these picnic destinations to…
Shimla, Jan 27 (IANS) Icy winds swept across Himachal Pradesh with temperatures remaining below the freezing point in most places, a weather official said. Keylong was the coldest in the state at a low of…
Srinagar, Jan 27 (IANS) Drass town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region was coldest in the state on Sunday with a minimum temperature of minus 28.7 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. On Saturday, even…
New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) It was a cold and foggy Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 5.2 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average, the weather office…
Sydney, Jan 27 (IANS) A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time (2:30 am IST) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after, the area felt…
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari here on Saturday laid the foundation stone for development of a six-lane corridor here and said road projects worth Rs 50,000…
Kolkata, Jan 26 (IANS) People in the Sundarbans have started migrating towards cities with increasing vulnerability from climate change and shrinking opportunities for livelihood, experts said on Saturday. The Sundarbans is one of the largest…
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) The air quality in the national capital improved to the ‘poor’ category on Saturday after being ‘very poor’ for the past few days. According to System of Air Quality and…
Lucknow, Jan 26 (IANS) Three persons, including an infant, were killed on Saturday in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh after the roof of their house collapsed following incessant rains, police said. The incident took place…
New York, Jan 26 (IANS) Researchers have discovered the largest cave salamander in North America, a 9.3-inch specimen of the Berry Cave species. “The record represents the largest individual within the genus Gyrinophilus, the largest…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Jan 26 (IANS) Tourists visiting the Taj Mahal will now be under safety cover of catapults to scare rampaging monkeys who have been injuring visitors at an alarming frequency. A group…
Shimla, Jan 26 (IANS) It was a bright and sunny but chilly day across Himachal Pradesh on Saturday after five days of widespread rain and snowfall that turned Shimla, Manali and Dalhousie more picturesque. “It…
Srinagar, Jan 26 (IANS) The Met Office on Saturday forecast dry weather in Jammu and Kashmir for the next four days. “Weather is likely to remain dry in the state during the next four days,”…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Jan 26 (IANS) India has questioned the rush at the UN to declare climate change an international security issue, potentially giving the Security Council the right to take action on…
Shimla, Jan 26 (IANS) Traffic movement upward from the Himachal Pradesh capital remained suspended for the fifth day on Saturday since a large stretch of a highway was still under a thick blanket of snow,…
Geneva, Jan 26 (IANS) UN body Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will open the final draft of its new methodology report for review next week that will help countries enhance national inventory reports of…
United Nations, Jan 26 (IANS) The United Nations Security Council held an open debate to discuss the impact of climate change on peace and security, while calling for action to diminish the effects of global…
United Nations, Jan 26 (IANS) Global greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise to record levels in 2018-2019, the chief economist of World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has told United Nations Security Council (UNSC). “Global average greenhouse…
Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS) India’s development plan is to “assassinate” water resources, with the authorities holding nature as an obstruction to economic progress, environmentalist Bittu Sahgal said on Friday. “In the last five years, we…