New Delhi: A view of Delhi traffic on the fifth day of implementation of odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi on April 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 29 (IANS)…
Kathmandu, April 29 (IANS) Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say. Sherpas have expressed concern that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches,…
London, April 29 (IANS) The very oldest pieces of rock on Earth — zircon crystals — are likely to have formed in the craters left by violent asteroid impacts that peppered our nascent planet rather…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, April 29 (IANS) If you want to breathe clean air, travel to Himachal Pradesh’s remote Kinnaur district that is endowed with the mighty Himalayas, gurgling rivers, virgin nature and a rich…
By Vikas Datta Title: Environmental Politics – A Very Short Introduction; Author: Andrew Dobson ; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 152; Price: Rs.225 Global warming and COP-21, or specifically at home in India, the ‘odd-even’…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 21.7 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said….
Port Vila, April 29 (IANS) A magnitude 7 earthquake struck the north of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Friday. The US Geological Survey located the epicentre of the quake at a shallow depth…
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai inspects trail of implementation of odd-even formula begins in New Delhi on Dec 31, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai…
By Vinayak Dutt New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is likely to give its verdict next Wednesday on the Art of Living (AoL) causing ecological damage on the Yamuna banks in…
Hyderabad, April 28 (IANS) Heat wave claimed 15 more lives in Telangana on Thursday, taking the toll to 137 this season, officials said. The deaths were reported from various parts of the state during last…
Bhubaneswar, April 28 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday sounded a severe heat wave warning in coastal Odisha for the next 3-4 days. Odisha continued to reel under the scorching sun on Thursday,…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) With dissolved oxygen levels as low as 0.4 milligram per litre, Hindon river, a tributary of Yamuna, is not in a good condition and efforts are on to revive the…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday said that recent incidents of fires have contributed to raising air pollution in the city. As the second phase of the odd-even traffic…
Shimla, April 28 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday continued to experience warm weather due to prevailing dry weather, with the state’s Una town recording a high of 38.4 degrees Celsius, a Met…
Ghaziabad, April 28 (IANS) The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has sought government clearances for a commercial hub in the Hindon river bed, though the proposal stands in violation of environmental laws, according to official sources….
By Prachi Salve No more than 17.6 percent of urban solid-waste (garbage) was processed as of March 2016, against a target of 30 percent set last year under the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission launched…
Beijing, April 28 (IANS) At least nine dholes, or Asiatic wild dogs, were caught on camera in a nature reserve in China’s Gansu province, the nature reserve officials said on Thursday. Infrared cameras in Yanchiwan…
Agra, April 28 (IANS) A six-foot-long cobra created panic when it was found perched in the office of a carpet making factory here. The Wildlife SOS Rapid Response Unit was summoned after the snake refused…
Ujjain, April 28 (IANS) The foreign nationals who came to participate in the ongoing Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh have been promoting cleanliness by connecting to “Green Ujjain – Clean Ujjain”…
Tokyo, April 28 (IANS) Japan’s southwestern region, jolted by two powerful tremors that killed 50 people earlier this month, has witnessed over a thousand aftershocks since the first strong quake hit the country on April…