New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) With 460 leopard deaths, India in 2018 recorded the highest mortality rate of the particular big cat species across the country in the past four years, Wildlife Protection Society of…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Ganesh Shetty’s new short film “Bete” presents a strong commentary on a 2016 law which legalised the use of guns to cull wild boars in order to protect crops from…
Chennai, Dec 17 (IANS) Indian space agency ISRO has shortlisted 14 companies out of over 100 companies that showed interest in its lithium ion cell technology, said a senior official. “Over 100 companies showed interest…
Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) Kolkata and several other districts of Gangetic West Bengal woke up to a rainy morning on Monday as cyclone ‘Phethai’ made landfall in Andhra Pradesh. The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) of…
Ranchi, Dec 17 (IANS) Jharkhand witnessed cold weather on Monday due to incessant rains in the state, a weather official said here. “Jharkhand is receiving moderate to heavy rainfall due to a cyclone which will…
New York, Dec 17 (IANS) Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have developed a thin, durable and high-tech personal heating patch that could be sewn into clothes to generate heat, while significantly reducing users’ electric…
By Arul Louis Is the looming climate change apocalypse real? In the clearly-demarcated battle lines, the good guys are those who believe it is and the bad guys, like US President Donald Trump, are the…
Vijayawada, Dec 17 (IANS) The South Central Railway has cancelled over 50 trains in coastal Andhra Pradesh in view of severe cyclonic storm Phethai, which is set to hit the coast near Kakinada on Monday…
Gwalior, Dec 17 (IANS) Actress Yami Gautam has been named the goodwill leader of Super Sniffers campaign initiated by TRAFFIC India along with World Wildlife Fund India (WWF). As part of the campaign, a band…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Residents of the national capital woke up to a foggy morning on Monday with the minimum temperature touching 6.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average. “There was shallow…
Visakhapatnam, Dec 17 (IANS) Heavy rains accompanied by squally winds were lashing parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh on Monday as the severe cyclonic storm ‘Phethai’ is set to hit the coast near Kakinada later in…
Kolkata, Dec 16 (IANS) Amid reports of “poor” air quality in the city, the environmentalists on Sunday accused the pollution control agency of not being proactive enough to conduct the source apportionment study to combat…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Delhi’s air quality continued to remain in the ‘poor’ category on Sunday and is likely to remain so due to high humidity which is not allowing the pollutants to disperse,…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 16 (IANS) At the UN Climate Change Conference, which concluded in the presence of delegates from nearly 200 countries, green activists on Sunday said governments have failed to adequately…
Kolkata, Dec 16 (IANS) Amid increasing volatility in tender issuance, auctions and issues related to GST and safeguard duty, India’s solar installations slowed down in the July-September period of 2018, officials said on Sunday. “Indian…
Visakhapatnam, Dec 16 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh on Sunday sounded a high alert in the coastal region as a cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal was heading towards it and was likely to cross the…
Jakarta, Dec 16 (IANS) A volcano erupted in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province on Sunday, spewing a column of ash measuring 7.5 km to the sky, a disaster agency official said. Mount Soputan erupted twice –…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The national capital woke up to a cold morning on Sunday with mist and shallow fog with the minimum temperature settling at 7.2 degreed Celsius, a notch below the season’s…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 16 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the Katowice climate change conference has shown once more the resilience of the Paris Agreement and from now his priorities will…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 16 (IANS) India has expressed its reservation over the lack of equity in the rules relating to global stock-take in the rulebook that implements the 2015 Paris Climate Change…