Clear Friday morning in Delhi
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) It was a clear Friday morning with minimum temperature recorded at 7.7 degrees Celsius, one notch below the season’s average, weather officials said. “The sky will remain clear in the…
Environment
Andaman requests air sorties to evacuate tourists, send supplies
Port Blair, Dec 8 (IANS) With the deep depression over Southeast Bay of Bengal intensifying into a cyclonic storm, the Andaman and Nicobar administration on Thursday requested the Defence Ministry to provide air sorties to…
Climate change will escalate migration in South Asia in coming year: Study
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Cautioning the South Asian countries, especially India to prepare themselves, a study said on Thursday that migration in south Asia will escalate uncontrollably due to climate change. The study, “Climate…
Assam mulls thermal sensors along rail tracks to reduce elephant deaths
Guwahati, Dec 8 (IANS) Expressing concern over the death of elephants in the state due to conflict with humans as well as train collisions, Assam Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma on Thursday said that the…
Delhi L-G’s objection on vaccum cleaners baseless: Kejriwal
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday dubbed as “baseless” the objection raised by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung’s Office to the purchase of vaccum cleaners to clean the national capital’s…
Cyclonic storm Vardah likely to spare Odisha
Bhubaneswar, Dec 8 (IANS) The cyclonic storm formed over the Bay of Bengal is likely to have least impact on Odisha as it is likely to move towards the Andhra Pradesh coast, the India Meteorological…
15 injured in vehicle pile-up on NH-1 in Haryana
Chandigarh, Dec 8 (IANS) At least 15 people were injured on Thursday following a pile-up of vehicles due to dense fog on the busy National Highway No. 1 (NH-1) near Kurukshetra in Haryana, 65 km…
17 killed due to heavy downpour in Vietnam
Hanoi, Dec 8 (IANS) At least 17 people have died due to heavy rain and flood in Vietnam, authorities said on Thursday. Vietnam’s central Binh Dinh province has been the hardest hit with nine persons…
Srinagar records coldest night yet of this year’s winter
Srinagar, Dec 8 (IANS) Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday recorded this season’s coldest night so far at minus 3.7 degrees. The minimum temperature was minus 3.7 degrees Celsius in Srinagar,…
Thick fog engulfs areas in Punjab, Haryana
Chandigarh, Dec 8 (IANS) Thick fog engulfed several parts of Haryana and Punjab on Thursday morning, affecting life in both states. Visibility was reduced to less than 50 metres at a number of places in…
Foggy Thursday disrupts train services, 100 trains delayed
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) At least 100 trains were delayed and two trains cancelled due to dense fog on Thursday morning, railway officials said here. “At least 100 trains were running behind schedule due…
Delhi wakes up to foggy morning
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Dense fog engulfed the national capital on Thursday morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 8.7 degrees Celsius, season’s average, officials at the weather office said. Visibility at 5.30 a.m…
Kerala’s comprehensive ‘Green initiative’ to be launched Thursday
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 7 (IANS) The ‘Haritha’ Kerala Mission, a comprehensive programme for creating new development perspectives by maximum utilisation of opportunities through waste management, water resources and agricultural development using organic farming will be launched…
Sea ice in Arctic and Antarctic hit record lows in November
New York, Dec 7 (IANS) Warm temperatures have led to record decline in the extent of sea ice in the Arctic and off the coast of Antarctica in November this year, say scientists. While unusually…
97 killed in Indonesia quake
Jakarta, Dec 7 (IANS) At least 97 persons were killed and over 500 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale hit Aceh province in Indonesia on Wednesday, an official said. The epicentre…
UP shivers as mercury plummets, icy winds blow
Lucknow, Dec 7 (IANS) Most parts of Uttar Pradesh continued to shiver under a cold wave on Wednesday as the mercury plummeted to season’s lowest at 10 degrees Celsius at midnight, a Met official said….
Trains delayed, cancelled due to Delhi fog
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Thousands of people were affected after a dense fog in parts of northern India on Wednesday forced authorities to cancel seven trains and reschedule 19 while 70 ran behind schedule,…
Not easy to make films about climate change: Filmmaker Shyam Benegal
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Climate change and environmental degradation may have emerged as the most debated issues in contemporary times but veteran film director Shyam Bengeal rues that Indians are not…
Shimla warmer than Chandigarh, Amritsar
Shimla, Dec 7 (IANS) Places in North India such as Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Hisar and Karnal remain colder on Wednesday than hilly tourist destinations like Shimla, Dharamsala and Palampur, the Met office said. The…
India puts remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2A into orbit
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Dec 7 (IANS) India on Wednesday morning successfully put into orbit its own earth observation satellite Resourcesat-2A in a text book style. “Today we had a successful launch of…