Courmayeur (Italy), March 2 (IANS/AKI) At least three persons were killed and five others were injured, some seriously, after a snowslide in the Val Veny valley near the upscale ski resort of Courmayeur in the…
Guwahati, March 2 (IANS) The Assam government on Thursday admitted to large-scale encroachment on water bodies, forest lands and tribal lands across the state and said the government was undertaking a survey to ascertain the…
Chennai, March 2 (IANS) A day after Tamil Nadu traders began boycotting Coke and Pepsi for over exploiting ground water, the Madras High Court on Thursday lifted the ban on drawing water from Thamirabarani river….
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday re-allowed camping activities along the banks of the Ganga in Uttarakhand with certain limitations. The tribunal, however, maintained that the ban on camping…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Kerala’s famed wetlands face multiple threats, including from rapid development activities and unscientific land use, says a book authored by experts. Large-scale reclamation, pollution and deforestation are also causing the…
Bengaluru, March 2 (IANS) Bowing to pressure from citizens and green activists, the Karnataka government on Thursday abandoned the controversial steel flyover project in the city, saving about 800 trees from facing the axe. “The…
Mumbai, March 2 (IANS) Pet Fed, a pet festival which has had three editions in the capital, will now make its debut here. It has support from Bollywood actor Dino Morea. The festival will be…
Johannesburg, March 2 (IANS) African elephants — the largest land animal — sleep for just an average of two hours a day and regularly survive for nearly two days without sleep, a study has found….
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) It was a sunny Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.5 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. According to an India…
Washington, March 2 (IANS) At least three people were killed when a powerful storm hit the US, weather officials said. In total, the US National Weather Service has reported 24 tornadoes in a storm system…
Canberra, March 2 (IANS) Australia’s capital city Canberra sweltered though its hottest summer on record, the nation’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) revealed on Thursday. Consistently hot temperatures, heatwaves and warm nights all contributed to Canberra’s…
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday issued notice to an automobile manufacturers association after their stated inability to discard vehicles running on BS-III complaint fuel from April 1. The…
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The national capital experienced a sunny day on Wednesday with the maximum temperature settling at 30.5 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the Met office said. It has…
New York, March 1 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a new primate species that lived in Jammu and Kashmir some 11 to 14 million years ago. Scientists have named the new species Ramadapis sahnii. It is…
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The Centre on Wednesday awarded projects worth Rs 1,050 crore to develop adequate sewage treatment infrastructure in Patna to keep the Ganga river clean under Namami Gange programme. According to…
Chennai, March 1 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Wednesday said the state government will not give permission for hydrocarbon or natural gas exploration in Neduvasal village. Palaniswami gave the assurance to a…
London, March 1 (IANS) Frogs have the unique ability to see colour even when it is so dark that we are not able to see anything at all, new research has found. The findings, published…
Singapore, March 1 (IANS) Using nearly 100,000 images extracted from Google Street View, a team of researchers has developed a method to map and quantify how street trees regulate ecosystem services. With urban populations exploding…
Jammu, March 1 (IANS) One-way traffic of only light motor vehicles was on Wednesday restored on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway after landslide clearance operations were completed in Ramban district. “Light motor vehicles have now been…
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 18 degrees Celsius, six notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. According to an…