Jammu/Srinagar, May 21 (IANS) Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded the hottest day of the season on Saturday as temperature touched 41.7 degrees Celsius in Jammu, officials said. A Met official told…
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Following a petition and moving wildlife crime stories like a sloth bear losing its limb to snares, Amazon India has dropped over 400 animal specimen and hunting equipment from its…
Agartala/Aizawl, May 21 (IANS) Incessant downpour unleashed by cyclone ‘Roanu’ derailed normal life on Saturday in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam. “The cyclonic effect and rains will continue till Sunday before ‘Roanu’ hits Bangladesh,”…
Agartala/Silchar, May 21 (IANS) Road and rail traffic was disrupted in southern Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and western Manipur by incessant rain and landslides, officials said here on Saturday. Tripura has been cut off from the…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Two rhinos, including an adult female, died from lightning strikes at the Gorumara National Park in northern West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, officials said on Saturday. “One was an adult female and…
London, May 21 (IANS) Sexual conflict between males and females can lead to changes in the shape of their genitals, finds a new research conducted on burying beetles. The findings showed that beetles genitals change…
Agra, May 21 (IANS) Twenty-three years after Agra was struck by a ‘water tragedy’ that claimed 21 lives, nothing seems to have changed. Even in summer of 2016, the Taj city is parched as residents…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Gangetic West Bengal and this metropolis, swathes of which were inundated by overnight showers, will continue to receive rains in the next 24 hours as cyclonic storm “Roanu” skirts the state’s…
New York, May 21 (IANS) At least three man-eating Nile crocodiles that can grow to 18 feet long and weigh as much as a small car have been found living in the US Sunshine State…
Lucknow, May 21 (IANS) Duststorm followed by heavy rains on Saturday brought respite to people suffering from the sweltering heat in and around Lucknow. The Regional Met Office predicted the maximum temperature to be three…
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) They are migrating en masse — elephants, swamp deer, tigers and leopards — from the Indian Terai region into forests of Nepal. A severe drought on the…
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone; such hot pools often bubble with undiscovered microbes. Credit: NPS New York, May 21 (IANS) The Earth could contain nearly one trillion species, of which 99.999 percent are yet to…
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) It was warm and sunny morning in the national capital on Saturday with the minimum temperature settling at 30.7 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season’s average. “The sky will…
San Jose, May 21 (IANS) A vast amount of volcanic ash covered Costa Rica’s capital, San Jose after a powerful eruption of the Turrialba volcano blew a column of smoke to a height of 9,800…
Beijing, May 21 (IANS) China’s weather authorities on Saturday issued a blue alert, the lowest level in its four-tier warning system, for heavy rains in the southern region in the next 24 hours. From 8.00…
Hyderabad: Cars get damaged as a hoarding collapses on them during heavy storm and rainfall that lashed Hyderabad, on May 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad: Cars get damaged as a hoarding collapses on them during…
Bhubaneswar, May 21 (IANS) The Odisha government on Friday announced that there would be no power cuts till June 30 to bringing much needed relief for people from the heat wave in the state. The…
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Dubbing drought a “man-made disaster” rather than a natural calamity, experts on Friday said measures taken by central and state governments to deal with it are failing in providing relief….
Hyderabad, May 20 (IANS) One person was killed and scores of others injured as a powerful thunderstorm wrecked havoc in Hyderabad on Friday, uprooting hundreds of trees and disrupting electricity supply. A man was killed…
Jaipur, May 20 (IANS) Rajasthan continued to be affected badly by severe heat wave conditions on Friday while the mercury touched 50 degree Celsius mark in Phalodi in Jodhpur district for the second day in…