Siliguri, Oct 14 (IANS) Toy train services in the Darjeeling hills were suspended due to landslides caused by heavy rainfall, a railways official said on Friday. “Toy train jungle safari ride between New Jalpaiguri station…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) The national capital experienced a sunny day on Friday with the maximum temperature settling at 35.2 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the Met office said. It has…
By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 14 (IANS) The world is close to striking a deal to phase out super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air-conditioning, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Erik…
Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Cookies baked from extracts of local seaweed abundant in the Sundarbans mangroves have 17 per cent higher protein content than those available commercially, says a team of scientists who harnessed the…
New York, Oct 14 (IANS) A comet struck our home planet a long time ago and it could have triggered the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a rapid warming event caused by an accumulation of atmospheric…
Jammu, Oct 14 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale was recorded in Bhaderwah town of Jammu on Friday, authorities said. No damage to life or property was reported. “A light intensity quake…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Oct 14 (IANS) The mountainous northeast of India, comprising eight states, has recorded deficient rainfall for the second consecutive monsoon season, and experts have red-flagged rapid urbanisation and deforestation as reasons…
By Jamshyd Godrej & Frances Beinecke World leaders are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda to reach an agreement on the biggest single step they can take this year to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, the ultra-potent greenhouse gases common…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) It was a clear Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 19 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, the weather office said. The weather office said that with days…
Port-au-Prince, Oct 14 (IANS) Haiti continued its efforts to normalize areas devastated last week by Hurricane Matthew, while more than a million are awaiting supplies of food and medicine. Nine days after the hurricane struck…
Rio de Janeiro, Oct 14 (IANS) The Brazilian Defence Ministry said it will send 10 tonnes of donations to Haiti where Hurricane Matthew killed nearly 900 people and left tens of thousands homeless. According to…
By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 13 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday reached Kigali in Rwanda where he will attend the 28th Montreal Protocol meeting on the last day on Friday….
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) A seven-year-old tigress, Durga, died at the Thrissur Zoo in Kerala on Thursday, becoming the 100th Indian tiger to die this year. Durga hailed from the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in…
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) The Delhi government on Thursday announced the launch of an “anti-firecracker campaign” for this Diwali and alerted the state machinery to check import and sale of harmful crackers. “The Delhi…
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) With India receiving 97 per cent rainfall between June and September, the monsoon was “normal” this year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. While monsoon has ended in…
By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 13 (IANS) In a major development in the ongoing negotiations in Kigali in Rwanda to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Indian Minister for Environment Anil Dave on Thursday announced measures…
Colombo, Oct 13 (IANS) Sri Lanka and India on Thursday held a joint oil spill prevention exercise onboard the Indian Coast Guard Ship “Samudra Paheredar”, which is on a two-day official visit to the island…
By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 13 (IANS) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Erik Solheim on Thursday went the Gandhian way, asking the global community to take a pledge to phase out the…
By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 13 (IANS) Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Thursday favoured the earliest possible phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air-conditioning — to make the…
Los Angeles, Oct 13 (IANS) Actress Shailene Woodley faces up to 60 days in jail as well as $3,000 in fine if found guilty of trespass, following an arrest for her involvement in a protest…