Chennai, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a move to empower coastal communities, the World Bank has decided to bypass the traditional tendering process and directly channel funds to village-run mangrove councils for implementing the Tamil Nadu…
New Delhi, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil will lead discussions on the relationship between rivers and community livelihoods and ecological sustenance and cultural practice with the inauguration of the three-day Sixth…
Hyderabad, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana is fighting for an equitable share of Krishna River waters before the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II and placed a claim for nearly 70 per cent of the water earlier allocated…
New Delhi, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian airline Akasa Air on Tuesday informed passengers that its systems are facing technical issues, due to which some of its online services are not working. In an announcement made…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) As waterlogging disrupted life in Kolkata following overnight incessant rain, political parties in West Bengal cancelled all their scheduled programmes on Tuesday. The Trinamool Congress did not hold a single political…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s itinerary for Odisha has been revised in view of the Indian Meteorological Department’s (IMD) forecast of adverse weather conditions in the state due to a low-pressure area,…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) BJP IT cell chief and party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, on Tuesday accused the Mamata Banerjee government of “criminal negligence” over the rain-induced disaster in Kolkata. He claimed…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) As heavy rain wreaked havoc in Kolkata with several areas across the city witnessing severe waterlogging, flight operations at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport were also disrupted. According to…
Amaravati, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Fishermen in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada district hit the roads on Tuesday to protest over pollution of the sea by the industrial units in the coastal area. The fishermen and their family…
Ahmedabad, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) More than 51,500 kg of solid waste was collected and scientifically disposed of during a massive beach cleanup campaign conducted across 10 coastal stretches of Gujarat on September 20, marking International…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday, blamed the Kolkata civic authorities for “gross inefficiency” after a single night of heavy rain left the city…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hours after a midnight cloudburst wreaked havoc in the city, the Met office on Tuesday issued a further rain warning in Kolkata and south Bengal districts as a low pressure area…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) A cloudburst at midnight has thrown life out of gear in Kolkata, West Bengal leading to severe waterlogging across the city. Even the usually dependable Metro Railway hasn’t been spared and…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Following overnight heavy rain, which crippled the city, resulting in seven deaths due to electrocution, Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Tuesday appealed to people not to venture out of their homes…
Chennai, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Anna University, in collaboration with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), will organise a two-day national conference in Tamil on “Green Solutions for Energy, Environment and Sustainability” from October…
Ahmedabad, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of continued wet conditions for the next seven days, with heavy rain expected in South and Central Gujarat as well as Saurashtra, even as…
Chennai, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Regional Meteorological Centre has forecast light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms across several parts of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, bringing much-needed relief from the recent humid conditions. The weather…
Amaravati, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said on Monday that the state is exploring new markets for aquaculture products as the tariff imposed by the US has dealt a blow…
Shimla, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a first, the Himachal Pradesh Fisheries Department has succeeded in breeding in captivity a record 87,000 golden mahseer fingerlings, a popular freshwater sport and food fish, at a farm, and…
Jaipur, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan is set to become the first state in India to auction major mineral blocks after obtaining all necessary pre-embedded permissions, a move aimed at accelerating mining operations, boosting investment, and…