By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Climate warming is impacting the human health globally. In India alone, opting out of rural labour workforce with reductions in work capacity from heat stress was the…
Wellington, Oct 31 (IANS) New Zealands new government is considering creating a visa category to help relocate Pacific people displaced by climate change, the media reported on Tuesday. The new category would make official the…
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) It was a misty Tuesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. The Met forecast a clear day ahead. The…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) India signed a $200 million loan agreement with World Bank on Monday to facilitate investment in the agricultural sector and increase productivity in Assam, an official statement said. “The Government…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The Centre has proposed to fix emission standards for 21 industries, including sugar and leather, using cheap but highly polluting fuel petcoke. According to the draft gazette notification, put up…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Monday said policy formulation and designs are often “very elitist” in India and that a small minority drives the policy paradigm for the…
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) State-run State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday announced the sanction of loans worth Rs 2,317 crore in collaboration with the World Bank to finance grid-connected solar rooftop projects in the…
Hyderabad, Oct 30 (IANS) As many as 76 per cent of the brands of LED bulbs and 71 per cent of LED downlighters in India flout consumer safety standards, as prescribed and mandated for lighting…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The national capital on Monday saw a slight dip in mercury, with maximum temperature recorded at 30 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. According to weather analysts, due…
Kolkata, Oct 30 (IANS) Noted Assamese elephant trainer and conservationist Parbati Barua, who was in north Bengal recently to train elephant-keepers, says it is important to break down the scientific basis of elephant-keeping practices for…
Geneva, Oct 30 (IANS) Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced on Monday. Last year’s increase was 50 per cent higher…
Los Angeles, Oct 30 (IANS) Adverse climate changes will force bamboo lemurs, one of the most endangered primate species on Earth, to change their dietary habits, causing them to slowly starve, an international research team…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Stubble burning in Punjab has dropped by 30 per cent this year as compared to last year, the state government told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) here on Monday. The…
Brisbane, Oct 30 (IANS) Over 176,000 lightning strikes were witnessed in Australia’s Queensland state due to severe storms, the media reported on Monday. According to the state bureau of Meteorology, the lightning bolts ripped across…
By Vivian Fernandes New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has uploaded a revised version of the minutes of its meeting on genetically-modified (GM) mustard, which puts the onus for acceptance…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Oct 30 (IANS) After nearly 18 months, the famed 110-year old Matheran Toy Train resumed partial services on Monday, after it was suspended in May 2016 following several derailments, a top official said….
Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) The reverse auction for determining wind power tariff should be scrapped in favour of closed/sealed bids if the Indian wind turbine manufacturers are to survive in the long run, said a…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) It was a misty morning here on Monday with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.7 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. The MeT has…
Bengaluru, Oct 29 (IANS) Green energy like solar power would power India as 175 gigawatt (GW) of electricity is expected to be generated from renewable sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Sunday. “By…
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Following a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order banning plastic bags less than 50 micron in thickness in the national capital, 30,000 kg of plastic bags have been seized in the…