Misty Thursday morning in Delhi
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) It was a misty Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 19.4 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) It was a misty Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 19.4 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be…
Sydney, Oct 19 (IANS) Climate change and warmer oceans are likely to change reef ecosystems worldwide, reducing the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters and sea urchins, Australian scientists have revealed. As the oceans…
Hyderabad, Oct 18 (IANS) European volunteers of the not-for-profit Heartfulness Institute on Wednesday planted more than 500 saplings at Kanha Shantivanam near here to celebrate Diwali. Around 1,000 Heartfulness practitioners from Europe are visiting the…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) It is expected to be a less noisy and less toxic Diwali this year after the Supreme Court imposed a ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi and the NCR….
Bhubaneswar, Oct 18 (IANS) Several parts of Odisha are likely to experience heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours dampening Diwali celebrations in the state, the Met department said on Wednesday. The India Meteorological Department…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 18 (IANS) A total of 25,000 households in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar cities will be provided Piped Natural Gas (PNG) connection by the end of 2019, said an official on Wednesday. “Around 25,000 households…
Tokyo, Oct 18 (IANS) Given the transformation in the global LNG market into a situation of oversupply, India on Wednesday called for flexible terms for gas purchases, including the provision of a pricing review, “take…
London, Oct 18 (IANS) Up to 95 per cent of the plastic polluting the world’s oceans comes from just 10 rivers, including the Ganges, new research has found. While eight of these 10 river systems…
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) Lusi, the world’s largest mud eruption that began on the Indonesian island of Java in 2006, is not stopping any time soon as deep underground it is connected to a nearby…
By Vivian Fernandes New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) The Andhra governments flip-flop on extensive cultivation of unapproved genetically-modified (GM) herbicide-tolerant (HT) cotton seems to be symptomatic of the complacency which has infected even regulatory bodies…
Canberra, Oct 18 (IANS) Australian researchers have turned to crowdfunding to help bankroll a new technology to save the critically endangered swift parrot from extinction in the island state of Tasmania. Scientists from the Australian…
By Imran Khan Patna, Oct 18 (IANS) With climate change a reality and the latest Global Hunger Index revealing a horrific scenario for the world’s mountain people in developing countries in South Asia, including India,…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) It was a cool Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 18.7 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met Office has…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Days after the Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi and NCR to combat the rising levels of air pollution in the city, 87 per cent of the…
Lahore, Oct 17 (IANS) A Qatari man was arrested at the Lahore airport for trying to smuggle nine falcons worth more than Rs 50 million, the Pakistani media reported on Tuesday. Punjab wildlife official Khalid…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) All diesel generators, except those in hospitals and Metro stations, were on Tuesday banned in Delhi, the Badarpur thermal power plant was shut and Delhites were told to put on…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) An inter-governmental task force to curb illegal killing of birds crossing one of the world’s greatest migration paths will be high on the agenda at this year’s largest wildlife summit…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Delhi’s air quality, which has already entered the red zone, may trigger an increase in parking fees by up to four times across the city in the next few days,…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Dozens of shops were found selling firecrackers in Delhi on Tuesday as police moved to ensure strict implementation of a Supreme Court order banning the sale and purchase of crackers…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Ahead of Diwali and the winter season, the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has implemented the “Very Poor” and “Severe” categories of its Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)…