New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) With the maximum temperature on Wednesday reaching 36.3 degrees Celsius in the national capital, three notches above the season’s average, the weatherman sees the mercury rising further in Delhi. The…
Abu Dhabi, Sep 13 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates has said it will provide urgent humanitarian aid to quake-hit Mexico. The move comes on directives of President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and will be…
Vijayawada, Sep 13 (IANS) Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said Andhra Pradesh would be developed as a model state in protection and revival of rivers. He said interlinking of rivers is only a…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Growing population across the world is becoming the biggest hurdle in the way of sustainable development, and leaders and social activists will have to join hands to create awareness in…
Beijing, Sep 13 (IANS) China plans to use bio-ethanol gasoline across the country by 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Wednesday. “The plan was unveiled as the…
By Kushagra Dixit Barwar (Lakhimpur Kheri), Sep 13 (IANS) With no budget, staff, fodder or infrastructure, the only state government-run cow-shelter or gaushala here in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur-Kheri, a district that faces a “cow-menace”, is…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Crossing national and international boundaries, millions of migratory birds descend on India to avoid the extreme winter chill in their native habitats. Many of them never return…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) As many as 110 Indian and Indian-origin persons have been evacuated from the Hurricane Irma-hit Sint Maarten island and brought to the Caribbean Island of Curacao on a special chartered…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) It was a sunny Wednesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. The Met Office has predicted…
Dehradun, Sep 13 (IANS) More than 7.5 lakh pilgrims from all over the world have visited the Hindu shrine of Badrinath in Uttarakhand this year breaking the lull since the 2013 disaster, an official said…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday took a dig at the Delhi government, saying that all its directions to create awareness on the hazards of bursting fireworks was “merely paperwork” and…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) More than 20,000 kg of plastic carry bags of less than 50 microns have been seized by various agencies in the national capital following the ban, a government statement said…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Asserting that school children should be encouraged to refrain from bursting firecrackers, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed police not to grant more than 500 temporary licences for retail sale…
Naples, Sep 12 (IANS/AKI) An Italian tourist couple in their forties and their 11-year-old son died on Tuesday when they inhaled poisonous fumes inside a volcanic crater near Naples, while the boy’s seven-year-old brother survived….
Rome, Sep 12 (IANS/AKI) A magnitude 2.9 undersea earthquake struck off Italys’ Calabrian coast early on Tuesday and was followed several hours later by a magnitude 2 quake in the Sicilian province of Messina. The…
Washington, Sep 12 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Caribbean on Tuesday promising to rebuild the French territories ravaged by Hurricane Irma. Speaking on the tarmac of the airport at Pointe a Pitre…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Union Minister for River Development Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said work on three river inter-linking projects would start in three months. The projects on inter-linking of Ken-Betwa, Damanganga-Pinjal and Par-Tapi-Narmada…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Union Minister for River Development Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday called for a new comprehensive law to deal with the issue of desilting of rivers, along with measures such as inter-linking…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, Sep 12 (IANS) China on Tuesday said it is unable to share river data with India, owing to the renovation of water statistics centre in Tibet from where the Brahmaputra River…
New York, Sep 12 (IANS) Thanks to global warming, your morning cup of coffee could be a lot more pricey in the years to come. Researchers have estimated that climate change could reduce coffee growing…