Guwahati, Dec 18 (IANS) Expressing concern over increasing elephant deaths on railway tracks in Assam, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday directed the state Forest Department and Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) to improve coordination to…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) At least 36 trains were delayed and 17 trains rescheduled on Sunday due to dense fog in most parts of north India, a railway official said. According to the Northern…
By Kushagra Dixit Lakhimpur-Kheri (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 18 (IANS) A lost, scared, lone rhinoceros from Nepal, wandering around near this district town the past eight months, attacked villagers on Saturday night after being cornered and…
Shimla, Dec 18 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday witnessed another sunny but chilly day with temperatures in many areas staying below freezing point. “It was a bright, sunny day across the state…
New York, Dec 18 (IANS) Recreation activities in protected areas such as hiking impact wildlife mostly in negative ways, a study said. Nature-based outdoor recreation is the most widespread human land use in protected areas…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) There was shallow fog on Sunday morning. The minimum temperature was recorded at 7.2 degree Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. “The sky will be covered with shallow fog…
Srinagar, Dec 18 (IANS) Srinagar recorded the season’s coldest night so far as the minimum temperature dropped to minus 4.9 degrees Celsius on Sunday. According to the weather office, the night temperatures in the Kashmir…
Guwahati, Dec 17 (IANS) Two wild elephants died and another was injured on Saturday when they dashed against a train engine in Assam’s Nagaon district, a railway official said. “The light engine of a train…
Chandigarh, Dec 17 (IANS) While fog has affected normal life across Punjab and Haryana in recent days, a cold wave has also started affecting the region with minimum temperatures dropping. In Punjab, Sikh holy city…
Beijing, Dec 17 (IANS) Beijing and about two dozen cities saw the year’s worst smog on Saturday, which may last for days, making pollution worse in a country where 1.2 million die of it annually….
Port Moresby, Dec 17 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale jolted the area 60 km east of Taron, Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Thousands of passengers were stranded on Saturday after 52 trains were delayed due to dense fog in most of the parts of north India. According to a Northern Railway official,…
Srinagar, Dec 17 (IANS) Night temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir continued their free fall on Saturday as Srinagar recorded minus 4.5 degrees Celsius, while winter capital Jammu witnessed the coldest night at 5.4 degrees. For…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) There was a moderate fog on Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 8 degree Celsius, the season’s average. “The sky will be partly cloudy in the morning,…
United Nations, Dec 17 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the world needs to press ahead in the struggle against climate change. In his final press conference as Secretary-General, Ban on Friday said the…
Jakarta, Dec 17 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Abepura in Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre of the quake on Friday was determined at 3.1272 degrees south latitude…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre on Friday said efforts should be made to make all cantonments open defecation-free within a short period, said an official release. At a…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) In a bid to regulate pet shops all across the country, the Environment Ministry on Friday floated a draft notification making it mandatory for their proprietors to get the establishment…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday asked the Transport Department to mull reducing fares in all public buses for the next two months to promote the use of public…
Shimla, Dec 16 (IANS) Most places in the plains of north India like Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Patiala and Hisar were colder on Friday than hilly tourist destinations Shimla and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, the Met Office…