Shillong, Aug 12 (IANS) Incessant rain for the last five days has wreaked havoc in Meghalaya and claimed three lives, with two persons injured on Saturday, after a tree inside Raj Bhavan fell and crushed…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Union Forest Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday launched a 15-month-long campaign — Gaj Yatra — to raise awareness about the shrinking space for India’s wild elephants and their corridors. Over…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Aiming for complete elimination of man-animal conflict, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday called for a model to fix the elephant habitats and corridors. According to a report, 415…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) With 60 per cent of the Asian elephant population, India is home to a total of 27,312 free-ranging megaherbivores, an official said here on Saturday on the occasion of the…
Siliguri, Aug 12 (IANS) Two persons were killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in northern West Bengal, officials said on Saturday. In two separate incidents in Darjeeling district, houses collapsed in the landslides crushing…
Kathmandu, Aug 12 (IANS) At least 17 persons died and another six went missing after floods and landslides swept through southern Nepal on Saturday due to heavy rainfall, a minister said. Home Minister Janardan Sharma…
Agra, Aug 12 (IANS) An NGO planted saplings here on Saturday and introduced a Radio Frequency Identification chip to them which will ascertain the survival rate of the plants and their growth so they can…
Kathmandu, Aug 12 (IANS) Floods caused by incessant rain have created havoc across the low-lying Terai region in Nepal, inundating thousands of houses and displacing people, the media reported on Saturday. The floods since Friday…
Shimla, Aug 12 (IANS) Tourist destinations across Himachal Pradesh are chock-a-block with holidaymakers, mainly from the north Indian plains, for the extended Independence Day weekend, starting Saturday. Many hotels and guesthouses in most of the…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) It was a sunny Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 28.4 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be…
Rome, Aug 11 (IANS/AKI) A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Calabria in southern Italy early on Friday, the national geology and geophysics institute reported, adding it was followed several hours later by…
Agartala, Aug 11 (IANS) A heavy downpour since Thursday night flooded this Tripura capital and the adjoining sub-divisions, forcing hundreds of families to take shelter in 50 relief camps, officials said here on Friday. An…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Farmers throughout the country are getting financial assistance by the AYUSH Ministry to encourage cultivation of herbs and other medicinal plants, parliament was informed on Friday. Subsidy, as high as…
Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) An association of loudspeaker and lighting equipment suppliers in Maharashtra on Friday announced that they will not supply their equipment on August 15 to highlight the severe problems faced by them…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 11 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday sought the participation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in organic farming in the state. proposed for its encouragement towards Patnaik, who met…
Addis Ababa, Aug 11 (IANS/MAP) South Korea has announced $1 million humanitarian aid to Ethiopia which is still grappling with a drought caused by El Ni?o in 2016. Out of the total assistance, $400,000 will…
Beijing, Aug 11 (IANS) The death toll in the 7-magnitude earthquake in China’s Sichuan province rose to 24 on Friday, with five persons still missing, officials said. A total of 493 people were injured in…
Guwahati, Aug 11 (IANS) A third wave of floods hit Assam on Friday, inundating over 700 villages in 15 districts and affecting over three lakh people. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said Dhemaji,…
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) An international team of researchers, including experts from IIT-Kharagpur and NASA, has reported discernible groundwater storage replenishment in certain Indian regions, in a new study, attributing it to changes in strategy…
Nagpur (Maharashtra), Aug 11 (IANS) Concerned by the second suicide of a girl to save her debt-hit farmer father, a government-appointed panel here on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch a ‘Kisan Beti…