New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi government to submit a report indicating total forest area left in the national capital in last twenty years. A division bench…
Bengaluru, May 5 (IANS) The Karnataka government is setting up an expert committee to draw a blueprint for reviving and restoring Bellandur lake in the city’s east which has been most polluted with toxic discharges…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) head Sunita Narain is of the view that the Supreme Court was serious enough in tackling Delhi’s air pollution and environmental issues. “I think…
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) Nuevosol Energy Pvt Ltd, an emerging player in solar power industry, said on Thursday that it is looking to double its turnover to reach Rs.400 crore during the current financial year….
By Vinayak Dutt New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) With his Art of Living Foundation (AoL) yet to pay the major chunk of “environment compensation” for its cultural fest on the Yamuna floodplains, spiritual guru Sri…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Raising concerns over the rising number of diesel cars on Delhi roads, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) chief Sunita Narain on Thursday criticised the automobile industry for misleading the…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) After a week of scorching heat, Delhi enjoyed a relatively cooler day on Thursday with maximum temperature at 35.4 degrees Celsius – three notches below average and much lower than…
Jaipur, May 5 (IANS) Light rain and dust storm on Thursday brought a fall in both maximum and minimum temperatures in Rajasthan, much to the relief of people reeling under a heat wave in the…
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) The death toll due to heat wave in Telangana rose to 234 on Thursday with 15 more deaths being reported during last two days, officials said. The worst-hit Nalgonda district accounts…
Bhubaneswar, May 5 (IANS) Heat wave conditions continued to sweep several parts of Odisha with 12 places recording above 40 degree Celsius on Thursday, while authorities confirmed another two sunstroke deaths, taking the official toll…
Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) Heat wave conditions continued to abate in Haryana and Punjab for the third day on Thursday with maximum temperatures at most places remaining below 37 degrees Celsius. People felt the much-needed…
Shimla, May 5 (IANS) After two days of intermittent but widespread rainfall, Himachal Pradesh remained pleasant on Thursday as temperatures across the hill state fell further. Isolated showers have been forecast. Shimla recorded a maximum…
Shimla, May 5 (IANS) In a setback to an Asian Development Bank-funded hydroelectricity project in Himachal Pradesh, a judicial panel hearing a petition on diversion of forest land to the upcoming project has directed the…
Beijing, May 5 (IANS) A long silhouette found wriggling on a mountain road in south China has proved to be the world’s longest insect, authorities said on Thursday. Zhao Li, with the Insect Museum of…
Lucknow, May 5 (IANS) An unsavoury war of words broke out between the BJP-led central government and the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in Uttar Pradesh over a train carrying water to parched Jhansi, a district…
By Imran Khan Lalgadh/Sarpallo (Nepal), May 5 (IANS) Mahender Bahadur Karki and Raj Kumar Mahto enjoy immense respect among the villagers here for being the caretakers of a community-based flood warning system that can be…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The central government on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to relax its ban on diesel taxis in Delhi and the National Capital Region as it was adversely affecting the foreign…
New York, May 5 (IANS) Warning of global decline of leaopards, new research has found that the elusive but iconic big cat has lost as much as 75 percent of its historic habitat range. “Leopards’…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) It was a partly overcast Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.2 degree celsius, three notches below the season’s average. Met has forecast a…
Washington, May 5 (IANS) Pluto behaves less like a comet than expected and somewhat more like a planet like Mars or Venus in the way it interacts with the solar wind — a continuous stream…