New Delhi, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Complying with the Commission for Air Quality Management’s (CAQM) direction, all 1,636 industrial units that were re-inspected twice in the month of October and November were found to have converted…
Mumbai, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Monday conferred the ‘Mother Teresa Memorial Awards’ for Social Change to various environmentalists presented by the Harmony Foundation, officials said. The awardees this year included…
Hyderabad, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana’s minister for municipal administration and urban development K. T. Rama Rao on Monday said that the union ministry for environment and forest has given clearance for 28 MW waste to…
Guwahati, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two wild elephants have died of suspected poisoning in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, officials said on Monday. A forest department spokesman said that carcasses of a pregnant elephant and a male…
Kanpur, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has developed a portable soil testing device that can detect soil health in just 90 seconds through an embedded mobile application. The technology titled Portable…
Jakarta, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The eruption of Mount Semeru in East Java province has raised concerns over the status of other active volcanos across Indonesia, home to more than 270 million people. After Mt. Semeru’s…
Lucknow, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, Lucknow police and the forest department have rescued 11 rose-ringed parakeets from illegal traders in the Nakhas bird market. Representatives of…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi’s minimum temperature will dip to 6 degrees Celsius, the lowest so far this winter, on December 17 intensifying the biting chill, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday….
Srinagar, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Icy winds blowing from snowclad mountains added to the freezing temperatures in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Monday as nights became colder in the two UTs. The Meteorological Department (MeT)…
Guwahati, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two forest guards were arrested after a toddler was killed and her mother injured as they opened fire as part of their efforts to push back a herd of wild elephants…
Bengaluru, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka will house a museum of plastic waste sculpture near Bengaluru’s picturesque holiday destination of Nandi Hills soon to sensitise people, it was announced on Sunday. “Our aim is to use…
Tokyo, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on Sunday struck Japan’s eastern Ibaraki Prefecture, authorities said. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor occurred at around 12:.31 p.m., with…
Dar es Salaam, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four east African countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have joined hands to fight plastic pollution in the region, an official said. Ana Le Rocha, the executive director…
Jakarta, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said on Sunday. The quake struckat 22.29 p.m. on Saturday night, with the epicentre at 163 km…
Srinagar, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Cold wave continued unabated in Kashmir and Ladakh on Sunday as the night temperature remained below the freezing point with icy winds adding to the chill factor. An official of the…
By VISHAL GULATI Chandigarh, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) When Swiss-French urban planner Le Corbusier planned a 114-sq km landlocked Union Territory of Chandigarh as the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, he promised the residents a…
By Nivedita Khandekar Panaji, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Standing in front of the Virtual Reality station, complete with headset strapped, hands holding the navigators, 10-year-old Aarav Shah excitedly turns right and left, and even starts walking…
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh), Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Ken-Betwa river linking project in Bundelkhand is expected to bring about a major change and prove to be a boon for half the population as the lives of…
By Narendra Puppala Hyderabad, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Butterflies – in contrast to their dainty name and fragile appearance – are a hardy species. And their presence tells us a lot about the surrounding eco-system, feels…
By Ujwal Jalali New Delhi, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Incidents of wildlife crime have come down drastically in the country in the current year, owing to the stringent measures adopted by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau…