New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Urging cleanliness be made a national movement, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Sunday that achieving the goal of “Swachh Bharat” will be true tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. Kovind, who…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) A campaign to salute millions of ragpickers, who collect used up plastic bottles from the trash for recycling, was launched on Sunday by a non-profit organisation here. “Salam Hai” (salute),…
By Jaideep Sarin Hoshiarpur (Punjab), Oct 1 (IANS) Punjab is better known for India’s “green revolution” in agriculture and for contributing the maximum foodgrain to the national kitty. And now a progressive horticulturist and entrepreneur…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) It was a misty Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.0 degrees Celsius, one notch below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The…
San Juan, Oct 1 (IANS) People living near the Guajataca River in Puerto Rico were evacuated because a dam in the area was at risk of bursting, the media reported. After Hurricane Maria directly hit…
Shimla, Sep 30 (IANS) The southwest monsoon withdrew from Himachal Pradesh on Saturday and remained 15 per cent deficient — the seventh consecutive year when the state suffered a deficit, the weather bureau said here….
Srinagar, Sep 30 (IANS) A 75-year-old man was mauled to death on Saturday by a bear in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, police said. Police said Nazir Ahmad Chauhan was attacked by the wild animal in…
Beijing, Sep 30 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck China’s Sichuan province on Saturday with no immediate reports of casualties or damage. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the earthquake…
By Tarun Basu In June 1990 when, as a member of a media delegation, I had travelled with then Prime Minister V.P. Singh to Kuala Lumpur for a multilateral summit, everyone in the Indian delegation…
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) It was a sunny Saturday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 23.6 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The…
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Stressing on people’s participation to conserve wildlife, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday that over five crore Indians are involved in protecting it. He also said that India…
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Ahead of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) involving 19 Asian countries, to be held here on October 2 to address the issue of illegal wildlife trade, the government on Friday…
Patna, Sep 29 (IANS) In what is surely a rarity, a woman in Bihar has lodged a complaint against her father-in-law for not constructing a toilet in their house and sought help police help in…
Mumbai, Sep 29 (IANS) Actress Anushka Sharma on Friday came out to Versova beach to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, and said people should keep India clean. “It is appreciable that our…
Chandigarh, Sep 29 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Friday that clean water would soon flow into the river Ghaggar passing through the state as the Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) installed in…
New York, Sep 29 (IANS) The devastating 2011 Japanese tsunami brought nearly 300 species to the shores of Hawaii and the west coast of the US, new research has found. At its tallest point, the…
Karangasem (Indonesia), Sep 29 (IANS) The number of people evacuated over the possible eruption of Mount Agung volcano in the Indonesian island of Bali, the country’s major tourist destination, crossed 144,000 on Friday. Those evacuated…
New York, Sep 29 (IANS) Long thought to be a carbon sink, the world’s tropical forests now release more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere than they remove from it, thanks to their continued deforestation…
London, Sep 29 (IANS) Chimpanzees can spontaneously use tools to solve a task, without first watching another animal to learn from them, researchers have found. The results challenge the accepted belief that chimpanzees need to…
By V. Srinivas India’s rain-fed areas are amongst the most challenging for the sustenance of the agrarian economy. These village economies are almost entirely single-cropped areas with scanty rainfall, prone to frequent droughts, soil erosion,…