Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) Asserting India was on track towards becoming a open defecation free (ODF) nation by 2019, Union Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh on Friday said at least 160 districts across the…
Hyderabad, June 24 (IANS) The US and India will deepen their cooperation in climate and clean energy which offers great economic benefits, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma said on Friday. He believes climate, clean…
Sydney, June 24 (IANS) A 30-minute walk in the woods each week can help reduce depression and high blood pressure while enhancing mental health, a study has found. The findings showed that people who made…
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 29 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. “There are chances of lightning and thundery development,” said…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) Noted Bangladeshi economist and political activist Anu Muhammad on Thursday dubbed the proposed Rampal coal power plant in world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans as “an illusion of development” and urged people…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The Central government has identified 10 iconic places for observing international standards of cleanliness under the Prime Minister’s flagship ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ with the help of the World Bank, officials…
Gurgaon, June 23 (IANS) An Onsite Earthquake Warning and Security System will be set up at the Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) here, an official said on Thursday. This system has eight threshold values…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday renewed his call to the Delhi government to make the gas-fired Bawana power plant fully operational so as to provide clean power to…
Beijing, June 23 (IANS) At least 51 people died and dozens were injured on Thursday in extreme weather in China, officials said. Heavy rains, hailstorms and a tornado battered Jiangsu Province and parts of Yancheng…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in West Bengal’s Darjeeling will this month welcome a two-year-old male snow leopard named Makalu from Dudley Zoological Gardens (DZG) in Britain, an official…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in West Bengal’s Darjeeling will welcome a two-year-old male snow leopard named Makalu in July from Dudley Zoological Gardens (DZG) in Britain, an official…
Jakarta, June 23 (IANS) The deaths in landslides and floods on June 19 in Indonesia’s Central Java province have risen to 56, while 22 persons were injured and nine still missing, an official said on…
London, June 23 (IANS) Torrential rains and flooding swamped parts of London and Britain’s southeast on Thursday, with the fire brigade inundated with more than 300 emergency calls. Flood warnings were issued for parts of…
Bengaluru, June 23 (IANS) Southwest Monsoon is progressing as per average across Karnataka, the Meteorological Centre said on Thursday, predicting rainfall all over the state. “There was widespread rainfall in coastal Karnataka and north interior…
London, June 23 (IANS) The world’s largest solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, has entered Spanish airspace with the aim of landing in Seville to complete its Atlantic crossing, BBC reported on Thursday. Pilot Bertrand Piccard…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) It was a cloudy Thursday morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 27.6 degree celsius, a notch below the season’s average. Met has forecast the sky to remain cloudy through…
Dehradun, June 23 (IANS) Heavy rains and inclement weather have disrupted the annual ‘Char Dhaam Yatra’ which takes devotees to the shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri. Heavy rains have lashed the region in…
Stockholm, June 23 (IANS) Sweden on Wednesday inaugurated a test stretch of an electric road, making it one of the first countries in the world to conduct tests with electric power for heavy transports on…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Effective communication suiting the target audience is crucial for the success of projects like the Swachh Bharat Mission and Namami Gange, Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley said here on…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) After a Pune court ordered sending of four “traumatised” elephants from a rescue centre back to the circus, animal welfare organisations on Wednesday launched an online petition requesting the court…