Washington, June 21 (IANS) Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, astronomers have discovered a newborn fully-formed exoplanet — planets that orbit stars beyond our Sun — ever detected around a young…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, June 21 (IANS) At least three lion cubs and 10 python snakelets have been born in Sepahijala Wildlife Zoo and Sanctuary in Tripura. “The three newly born lion cubs were named…
New Delhi: Rains lash Delhi on June 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Tuesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, one notch…
Beijing, June 21 (IANS) Prosecutors in a county in east China’s Shandong province have won a lawsuit against the local environmental protection department in the first prosecutors vs. administration public interest case, according to the…
Bengaluru, June 20 (IANS) Officials in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi and Bijapur districts said no flash floods occurred in the areas which received heavy rainfall on Monday. “There were no flash floods in Chiitapur, just water-logging due…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) As pre-monsoon showers hits the national capital, health experts have urged people to not to ignore symptoms like redness, swelling or burning sensation in the eyes and consult an ophthalmologist…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) A five-feet-long ‘agitated’ cobra was rescued by the Wildlife SOS from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) near the JNU campus. The snake, found entangled in a synthetic…
Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) Authorities were busy giving last-minute touches to the Capitol Complex here for the International Yoga Day event on Tuesday morning, to be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as fears of…
Geneva, June 20 (IANS) Solar Impulse II, a plane exclusively powered by solar energy, began the trans-Atlantic stage of its planned world tour on Monday, taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Heavy pre-monsoon showers and gusts of wind brought respite from scorching heat and humidity to the national capital on Monday and weather analysts predict this situation will continue. The rain,…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) Wetland conservation experts in West Bengal and Assam have dubbed the Draft Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2016 as “considerably weaker” and “ambiguous” compared to the 2010 version in terms of…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) An overwhelming majority of Indians surveyed feel that civic bodies across the country have been ineffective in reducing the use of polythene bags in the first two years of the…
By Rohan Bapat In 2016, the air in Bihars capital, Patna, was classified the worlds sixth-most polluted in a World Health Organisation (WHO) ranking of 3,000 cities in 103 countries. There are 10 Indian cities…
Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) Mild showers in the city on Monday evening brought much relief from the scorching heat conditions, but worried authorities as it may threaten the main event of International Yoga Day to…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Heavy pre-monsoon showers and gusts of wind brought respite from scorching heat and humidity in the capital on Monday but disrupted traffic in several places. Light to moderate rain was…
Gurgaon, June 20 (IANS) Showers lasting over half an hour on Monday afternoon brought much relief to the Gurgaon residents, but also led to water-logging and traffic snarls. Water-logging in both new and old Gurgaon,…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to put on hold three notifications allowing the culling of Nilgai, wild boar and Rhesus Macaque (monkeys) in Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and…
New York, June 20 (IANS) With an aim to tackle one of the world’s biggest energy challenges — clean fuel for transportation, researchers in the US have developed a new technology to make clean hydrogen…
London, June 20 (IANS) Britain is set to become the first European Union (EU) country to resume rice imports from Fukushima prefecture in Japan, which experienced one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. From…
Canberra, June 20 (IANS) A six-year-old girl from Canberra has been given the naming rights of a tiger cub at the Australia Zoo after she donated the inheritance from her grandparents to a “Wildlife Warrior”…