Mumbai: Actress Dia Mirza during a programme in Mumbai on July 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, July 29 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities like Shabana Azmi, Hrithik Roshan and Farhan Akhtar have given a thumbs up to…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Deputy Manish Sisodia on Friday took a dig at the BJP government in Haryana over the massive rain-induced traffic jams in Gurgaon and…
Mumbai, July 29 (IANS) Tata Power on Friday announced that Cennergi, its South African joint venture, has started commercial operations there of its 134 MW wind farm project, which is also the Indian firm’s first…
London, July 29 (IANS) The tropical butterfly Heliconius erato distinguishes between shapes to use them as a cue for choosing the plants on which to feed and lay eggs, shows a new research. Heliconius erato,…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave called on students, whom he described as “tigers”, to help in the conservation of the big cats. On the occasion of International Tiger Day…
Mumbai: Actor Emraan Hashmi with his son Ayaan during the launch of book `The Kiss of Life: How a Superhero and My Son Defeated Cancer` in Mumbai, on May 30, 2016. The book authored by…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) As many as 44 disaster relief teams have been deployed in flood-affected areas in 12 states, and have rescued 894 stranded/marooned persons so far in Assam and Bihar, an official…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The pathetic conditions in which hens are kept, in tiny wire cages without enough space to move around, was raised in the Supreme Court on Friday. Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal…
Lucknow, July 29 (IANS) Heavy rains lashed Lucknow and other neighbouring areas on Friday morning even as the Met office predicted more downpours over the next two days across Uttar Pradesh. The rains started Thursday…
Gurgaon, July 29 (IANS) The Haryana government on Friday declared a two-day school holiday while the Gurgaon police has issued an advisory to avoid travelling as thousands of commuters remained stuck on National Highway 8…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) It was a cloudy Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.5 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, the weather office said. “There will be generally…
Gurgaon, July 29 (IANS) Hundreds of commuters on the Delhi-Jaipur route remained stuck on National Highway 8 after heavy rain left the Hero Honda Chowk here inundated, officials said on Friday. As NH 8 remained…
Gurgaon, July 28 (IANS) Hundreds of commuters, including women and children, were stuck on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway for many hours after heavy rain left the Hero Honda Chowk here inundated. There was a massive traffic…
Gurgaon, July 28 (IANS) Commuters were stuck for hours on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway after heavy rain left the Hero Honda Chowk here inundated. There was a massive traffic jam as all kinds of vehicles –…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Paving the way to unlock Rs 40,000 funds to establish corpus at the national and state levels to pay for afforestation activities, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Compensatory…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The national capital experienced a pleasant day on Thursday as rains across the city brought relief from muggy weather. The Met office forecast moderate rain on Friday. The maximum temperature…
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) With over 10,000 tigers including other big cats in captivity globally, rampant tiger poaching in India, shrinking green-corridors in Asia and three sub-species extinct, experts see “no…
Bhopal, July 28 (IANS) Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) will on Friday start its ‘rally for the valley’ from Indore to resume its protest against increasing the water level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam and the…
Guwahati, July 28 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has instructed his ministers to visit flood-hit districts and supervise relief and rescue operations even as there are reports that over 16 lakh people have been…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The bill to establish national and state compensatory afforestation fund, which may lead to the unlocking of over Rs 40,000 crore from the Centre, was passed by parliament on Thursday….