New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday imposed a nationwide interim ban on the procurement, sale and use of glass powder-coated ‘manja’ and other dangerous kite strings. An NGT bench…
Chennai, Dec 14 (IANS) Mobile telephony services continued to be impacted in Tamil Nadu’s three cyclone-affected districts of Chennai, Thiruvallur and Kanchipuram on Wednesday. Compared to private players the services of public sector Bharat Sanchar…
New York, Dec 14 (IANS) An earthquake detecting mobile application released by the University of California at Berkeley earlier this year has so far captured 400 temblors worldwide, researchers said. The Android app, named MyShake,…
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) It was a clear Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 10.5 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will remain…
San Francisco, Dec 14 (IANS) The Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in regional and global climate variability, researchers said. The discovery may help explain why sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere has been…
Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) Three tall “towers” standing in a perfect straight line on our neighbouring planet Mars in a recent image are claimed by some UFO and alien enthusiasts as clear evidence that highly…
Chennai, Dec 13 (IANS) Chennai residents woke up to uprooted trees/big branches blocking the roads, fallen name boards and hoardings, damaged walls and vehicles under fallen trees, power cuts and lack of milk supplies on…
Jammu, Dec 13 (IANS) Police on Tuesday rescued 13 persons trapped in a snow-bound mountain pass in the hilly Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. A senior police officer said that the 13 trapped inside…
Chennai, Dec 13 (IANS) Chennaities woke up to uprooted trees/big branches blocking the roads, fallen name boards and hoardings, damaged compound walls and vehicles under fallen trees, power cuts and lack of milk supplies on…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) At least 90 trains were delayed and 38 trains cancelled on Tuesday due to dense fog in parts of north India, officials said. According to a Northern Railway official, the…
Chennai, Dec 13 (IANS) Around 200 students of Ramakrishna Mission Home here actively lent an helping hand to the residents of different localities by clearing the trees fallen on the roads on Tuesday. “Around 200…
Chennai, Dec 13 (IANS) Cyclone Vardah that crossed Chennai coast on Monday has affected power generation at North Chennai Thermal Power Station’s (NCTPS) 600 MW Unit 1, the Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO) said…
By IndiaSpend Team The holy city of Varanasi has Indias most toxic air, and many north Indian cities are recording worse air-quality than Delhi, according to a new report in which IndiaSpend is a collaborator….
New York, Dec 13 (IANS) Breeding rice to require less flooding, altering feed for livestock to lessen intestinal processes that create methane, promoting less meat-intensive diets and deploying more farm bio-digesters can be possible solutions…
London, Dec 13 (IANS) While the wet regions of the earth are getting wetter, the dry regions are getting even drier thanks to the warming climate, a new study says. The regions which are relatively…
Wellington, Dec 13 (IANS) This year is set to be the warmest ever recorded in New Zealand illustrating “the stark reality of global warming”, scientists said on Tuesday. With just three weeks until the end…
New York, Dec 13 (IANS) There are about 18,000 bird species in the world – nearly twice as many as previously thought, new research suggests. “This new number says that we haven’t been counting and…
New York, Dec 13 (IANS) At around 66-year-old, the world’s oldest known seabird is expecting, again. The Laysan albatross called Wisdom is incubating an egg at the same nesting the seabird and her mate use…
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) While heading towards asteroid Bennu, NASA said its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to the Earth will also search for elusive “Trojan” asteroids that share our home…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Days after Vietnam stalled its plans to build nuclear power plants citing safety concerns, a nuclear expert in India says overall nuclear power is likely to expand in Asian countries….