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…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez is a big supporter of everything related to nature and keeping her ethos intact, the actress on Tuesday came out to support Bio Bridge project in…
London, Sep 12 (IANS) UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will embark on a visit to the Caribbean islands battered by Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, on Tuesday, authorities announced….
New York, Sep 12 (IANS) Our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats as they mastered the task of leaping through the trees, a 52-million-year-old ankle fossil found in France suggests. “Being able to jump from one…
London, Sep 12 (IANS) Model Joanna Krupa stripped down to nothing but tiger bodypaint outside Londons Houses of Parliament in order to support animal rights. The 38-year-old showed off her toned physique as she held…
By Rajendra Shende The BRICS meeting in Xiamen in China last week was a timely opportunity for both India and China to end the high-altitude and potentially high-voltage stand-off at the Doklam plateau. Many political…
Taipei, Sep 12 (IANS) Taiwanese authorities made preparations on Tuesday ahead of of Typhoon Talim which will pass the island on Wednesday. The Central Weather Bureau issued a sea warning and announced that Talim will…
Jammu, Sep 12 (IANS) The strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway was closed on Tuesday for vehicular traffic due to multiple landslides in Udhampur district. “The clearance operation is underway. No traffic will be allowed on the highway…
Miami, Sep 12 (IANS) Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it advanced through the southeastern US, the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) announced….
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 25.8 degrees Celsius, season’s average, weather officials said. “The sky will remain partly…
Chennai, Sep 12 (IANS) Filmmaker Prabhu Solomon has begun shooting for the sequel to his highly successful Tamil romantic-drama “Kumki” in Thailand, a source said. “Kumki”, released in 2012, explored the relationship between a mahout…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) India being one of the most polluted countries globally, just meeting the international air-quality standards can add “four years” to the average life of people here, while meeting the national…
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) In an attempt to train zoo vets in India with modern diagnosis and treatment techniques of wild animals in captivity, the Union Environment Ministry initiated a training programme here on…
Kolkata, Sep 11 (IANS) Electrosteel Steels on Monday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out search operations at corporate offices and other premises of its promoter company Electrosteel Castings (ESL) and residence…