Mumbai, Dec 6 (IANS) The Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), located in north Mumbai and southern Thane, has been declared an “Eco-Sensitive Zone”, an official announcement said. The ESZ will cover 59.46 square km of…
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) There was moderate fog in the national capital on Tuesday morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 9.4 degrees Celsius, the season’s average. “There was shallow/moderate fog in the morning,”…
Washington, Dec 6 (IANS) NASA said its Cassini spacecraft has successfully made the first close dive past the outer edges of Saturn’s rings since beginning its penultimate mission phase on November 30, but did not…
Paris, Dec 6 (IANS) The French authorities have decided to restrict vehicle use by imposing alternating traffic on December 6 in Paris and its suburbs after air pollution reached high levels in the region. Only…
Washington, Dec 6 (IANS) The US Army Corps of Engineers have decided to halt an underwater pipeline project in North Dakota that environmentalists warn may damage local water quality. The decision was made after a…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The air quality in Delhi has improved due to the action taken by various agencies, but there is a need to keep up the effort, the Lt Governor’s office said…
Dubai, Dec 5 (IANS/WAM) The UAE on Monday highlighted its efforts on biodiversity protection at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. A delegation from the UAE…
London, Dec 5 (IANS) A new scientific review of the winter floods of 2015/2016 has confirmed that the event was the most extreme on record in Britain. The event led to extensive river flooding in…
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur have unlocked the secret to ramp up yields of biofuel sourced from commonly found aquatic weeds such as water hyacinths. In a new…
Guwahati, Dec 5 (IANS) Three elephants were killed after they were hit by a speeding train in Assam early Monday, an official said. The incident took place in the Jogijan area near Hojai railway station…
Ranchi, Dec 5 (IANS) Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Arjun Munda on Monday questioned his party’s move to amend two land acts, resulting in worsening law and order situation in the state….
Ranchi, Dec 5 (IANS) Three students of the Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) here have been rusticated on charges of ragging of a junior student, an official said on Monday. A First Information Report (FIR) was…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) It was a clear Monday morning here in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 8.8 degrees Celsius, the season’s average so far. “There are slight chances of…
Jakarta, Dec 5 (IANS) A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia early Monday, but was not potential for tsunami, the Meteorology and Geophysics agency said here. The quake struck off…
Nairobi, Dec 4 (IANS/MAP) The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) was awarded the prestigious “Champions of the Earth” prize by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), in the category “Entrepreneurial Vision”. The award recognises…
Dubai, Dec 4 (IANS/WAM) The Dubai Crocodile Park project is 43 per cent complete and will open at the end of next year, said Juma Al Fuqae, Director of Property Management Department and Vice Chairman…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 4 (IANS) A 42-foot-long and 28-foot-wide carcass of a whale was found at Baidhara Pentha beach in Puri district of Odisha, said an official on Sunday. The forest officials recovered the dead marine…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) At least 13 trains were cancelled and 88 trains were running late due to dense fog on Sunday morning, railway officials here said. “At least 88 trains were running behind…
Canberra, Dec 4 (IANS) A project aimed at bringing an iconic Australian wallaby species back from the brink of extinction has been deemed a success, a researcher said on Sunday. The black-flanked rock wallaby was…
Kochi, Dec 4 (IANS) The humble coconut has been in existence for over 3,000 years, but it was only in 1916 that the Coconut Research Station was initially established by the then Madras government at…