New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said money allocated for MGNREGA should be used for “water harvesting” to battle drought. Speaking at the 10th Civil Services Day awards ceremony, Modi…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday accused the BJP of setting Delhi’s dump yards on fire to sabotage the city government’s flagship odd-even restrictions on plying four-wheelers for…
By Imran Khan Dapcha (Nepal), April 21 (IANS) Parvati Adhikari and Sandhya Kumari, washing clothes and filling their ‘gagri’ (water pot) at a tap connected to a natural spring here, are worried over the drying…
Melbourne, April 21 (IANS) A giant fossilised whale tooth — believed to be five million years old — was washed ashore on an Australian beach. Paleontologists believed the tooth, which is bigger than that of…
Pnom Penh, April 21 (IANS) Authorities in southwestern Cambodia’s Kampot province have started distributing clean water to drought-stricken villagers in several districts, officials said on Wednesday. Kampot provincial police chief Mao Chanmathurith said the operation…
By Rajendra Shende The singular credit for conceiving and championing the Nuclear Security Summits unarguably goes to US President Barack Obama. In 2009, he called nuclear terrorism one of the greatest threats to international security…
Chennai: An aerial view of flood affected Chennai on Dec 7, 2015. (Photo: IANS) London, April 21 (IANS) A team of Swiss scientists has developed a novel prediction approach that can forecast Indian monsoon’s yearly…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Bird population in India and across the world faces unprecedented threats, a new book says. “Feathers of Vellayani”, a publication of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board, says that the largest…
Canberra, April 21 (IANS) Australia’s iconic Phillip Island Penguin Parade, one of the nation’s leading tourist attractions, is set for a $40 million facelift. Most of the money will go toward a major upgrade of…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) It was a clear Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 25.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would mainly…
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai meets BJP MP Vijay Goel at his residence to persuade him not to violate the odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi, on April 18,…
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 20 (IANS) Cracking the whip against unscrupulous…
Ghaziabad, April 20 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s son-in-law Rahul Yadav has applied to the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) for approval of a group housing project in a river conservation zone here. Treating it as…
Dehradun, April 20 (IANS) Shaktimaan, an Uttarakhand Police horse that lost a leg in an attack by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator last month, died on Wednesday, days after it got a prosthetic limb,…
Dehradun, April 20 (IANS) Days after it got a prosthetic limb, Shaktimaan, an Uttarakhand Police horse which lost a leg in an attack by a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator last month, died on Wednesday, an…
Tokyo, April 20 (IANS) The global auto industry was again rocked by a controversy on Wednesday with Japan’s sixth-largest vehicle maker Mitsubishi admitting to manipulation of data to make false claims on fuel efficiency in…
By Archana Rao New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) From setting up giant coolers and mini water pools, to adding electrolytes in drinking water and providing loads of cooling fruit like cucumber and water melons –…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of the Global Climate Agreement adopted at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP-21) held in Paris in 2015. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar,…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave its approval to move official amendments in the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management And Planning Authority (CAMPA) Bill, 2015….
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Authorities in Delhi have impounded 50 more taxis for over-charging customers as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hinted on Wednesday that “surge pricing” by cabs may face the axe forever. “We…