New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Cold wave strengthened its grip over the national capital which saw its coldest morning on Thursday with the mercury dipping to 3.4 degrees Celsius. Residents will continue to shiver with…
Jaipur, Jan 12 (IANS) Chilly winds continued to blow across Rajasthan on Thursday, with the minimum temperature dropping to minus 1.9 degrees celsius in Churu. Mount Abu, the only hill station in the desert state,…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to pass an interim order for allowing the bull taming sport — Jallikattu — during the Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu on Saturday. A…
Chandigarh, Jan 12 (IANS) Narnaul in Haryana was the coldest place in the region with the minimum temperature slipping below the freezing point on Thursday. Most of the places in Punjab and Haryana experienced a…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) With the strike by civic staff in east Delhi entering its seventh day on Thursday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged that sanitation workers were “being compelled” to go on…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Opting for and preserving vegetations that hold monsoon rainwater, such as paddy and coconut plantations, is one aspect to clean the Ganga, said architect and planner Dilip Da Cunha. “One aspect…
London, Jan 12 (IANS) Flights were on Thursday cancelled amid warnings of blizzard conditions set to sweep across the UK. London’s Heathrow Airport said there were about 100 cancellations, the BBC reported. The Met Office…
Beijing, Jan 12 (IANS) China announced on Thursday a five-year plan to develop clean energy and open a research centre in the South China Sea – which could escalate tensions in the hotly-contested waters. The…
Tokyo, Jan 12 (IANS) Almost three-quarters of Japans biggest coral reef has died, according to a report that blames its demise on rising sea temperatures caused by global warming. The Japanese Environment Ministry in its…
Shimla, Jan 12 (IANS) Icicles formed in a large part of this Himachal Pradesh capital after many years with the minimum temperature remaining below sub-zero on the sixth consecutive day on Thursday. The weathermen forecast…
New York, Jan 12 (IANS) When seeking a mate, chimpanzees get more selective and choose a partner whose genetic makeup most differs from their own, researchers have found. The study showed that chimps can differentiate…
Seoul, Jan 12 (IANS) Two hundred canines have been rescued from a South Korean dog meat farm, an Non Government Organisation said on Thursday. The dogs, rescued in Gangwon province where the 2018 Winter Olympics…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Irked over the garbage menace in Delhi due to East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) sanitation workers’ strike, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday pulled up Delhi government, civic bodies…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to pass an interim order for organising the bull taming sport — Jallikattu — during the ensuing Pongal festival. A division bench headed by…
Bangkok, Jan 12 (IANS) Thirty-six people have died and one was reported missing in floods caused by torrential rains in southern Thailand, officials said on Thursday. According to the latest report by the Department of…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The national capital continued to be in the grip of a cold wave on Thursday as the mercury dipped to two degrees Celsius at various places, a weather official said….
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) An elephant was found dead in a West Bengal village on Thursday, a forest department official said. Talking to IANS, Divisional Forest Officer of Rupnarayan Division in Midnapore district, Arnab Sengupta,…
Srinagar, Jan 12 (IANS) This summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir shivered at minus five degrees Celsius on Thursday while Leh in the Ladakh region frozen at minus 17.7 degrees overnight. “Leh town recorded the…
Dehradun, Jan 12 (IANS) Following heavy snowfall in many regions, an intense cold wave in Uttarakhand have forced people to stay indoors as the mercury plummeted below average in most places. According to the regional…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) It was a foggy Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 3.4 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average. “It will be a partly…