Shimla, July 15 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh continued to experience moderate to heavy rainfall on Friday, causing landslides in some areas and blocking the highways, while major rivers and tributaries were swollen again, officials said. While…
Chennai, July 15 (IANS) Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said expanding the Green Corridor (a power transmission corridor for renewable power) is the central government mission and the per unit cost of solar…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) The Union government is on the right track to meet the target of generating one lakh MW of solar power by 2022 under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), a…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) Incessant rainfall inundated several areas of the eastern metropolis on Friday, triggering traffic snarls in arterial roads and crippling normal life. The Met Office on Friday forecast “very heavy rainfall” in…
New York, July 15 (IANS) American black bears may be able to recognise things they know in real life, such as pieces of food or humans, when looking at a photograph of the same thing…
New York, July 15 (IANS) The largest island in the Philippines may be home to the greatest concentration of mammal diversity in the world, say researchers who have been exploring the island for the past…
London, July 15 (IANS) Levels of global biodiversity loss are no longer within the safe limit and this may negatively impact the ecosystem function and the sustainability of human societies, a new study has revealed….
London, July 15 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that data from tropical Pacific Ocean can help provide an improved forecast of the summer monsoon in central India. The findings, published in the…
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 26 degrees Celsius, one notch below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Heavy rain in Delhi on Thursday brought a welcome drop in temperature with the maximum settling at the average for the season at 35.4 degrees Celsius, but also meant nightmare…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) In a bid to resolve the Ganga water sharing issues between Bangladesh and India, the two governments should form an experts group to look at all the technical issues, a top…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed a $100 million loan agreement for strengthening irrigation, drainage and water management in the Vennar sub-basin of the Cauvery delta…
Kochi, July 14 (IANS) A new delicacy on dining tables in Kerala could well be African snails, millions of which have invaded many areas of the state. At a meeting called here last week to…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Around 500 monks and ‘kung fu’ nuns of the Drukpa Buddhist order, who commenced a 2,500 km arduous cyclethon from Kathmandu in Nepal and will culminate in the famed Hemis…
Salman Durrani Sydney, July 14 (IANS) A team of Australian researchers has found a way to harvest renewable or ambient energy from mobile phone base stations to power battery-operated wireless sensors. Lead researcher Salman Durrani…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 27.4 degrees Celsius, average for the season, the weather office said. “There is a possibility of…
Ahmedabad, July 13 (IANS) The southwest monsoon penetrated deeper into Gujarat and has covered the entire state, leading to rainfall at most places in the drought-prone Saurashtra-Kutch region as well as central Gujarat areas. The…
Agra, July 13 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal has directed the Agra Municipal Corporation to conduct a thorough clean-up of the Yamuna river bank, mainly the area close to Taj Mahal. The NGT direction on…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Light rain in some parts of the national capital on Wednesday afternoon failed to afford Delhiites respite from the sweltering humidity as the maximum temperature settled at 35.4 degrees Celsius,…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Aiming to save the girl child and nurture her bond with nature, the West Bengal forest department has conceptualised project ‘Bonani’ (forest) envisioning girls turning ambassadors to protect the environment. Bengal…