Ahmedabad, June 4 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is launching for the first time in decades a massive Sabarmati river clean-up campaign involving around 20,000 people on the World Environment Day on Wednesday. Municipal…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, June 4 (IANS) Green activists on Tuesday criticized an action plan launched here to control air pollution in Agra, one of India’s most polluted cities and home to the Taj Mahal,…
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) Well-versed and equipped to carry out high-altitude rescue operations, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will join the efforts to retrieve the bodies of eight national and foreign climbers who went…
Seoni (Madhya Pradesh), June 4 (IANS) This tribal youth in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district will always owe his life to his pet dog – who distracted an attacking tiger long enough for other villagers to…
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) The pre-monsoon season this year is the second driest in 65 years, with gross rainfall deficiency recorded at 25 per cent, said private forecaster Skymet. The country witnessed 99 mm…
Washington, June 4 (IANS) Plastic trash may one day help people fly as researchers have found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel. “There is a lot of hydrogen in plastics,…
Canberra, June 4 (IANS) Icy conditions have swept across eastern Australia, bringing rare snowfall to subtropical areas of the country, weather officials said on Tuesday. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology described it as a “rare” sight,…
Chandigarh, June 4 (IANS) Thundershowers accompanied by strong winds in parts of Punjab and Haryana early on Tuesday brought much relief from the heat wave prevailing over the region. At many places, the maximum temperature…
Varanasi, June 4 (IANS) A group of shehnai players stood in knee deep waters at the Assi Ghat in the Ganga River in Varanasi and played Raag Megh to pray to Lord Indra and urge…
Bhopal, June 3 (IANS) The peak summer is called ‘Nautapa’ — nine days of intense heat — in Madhya Pradesh. Though the period ended on Monday, the met office refuses to forecast any relief from…
Hyderabad/Vijayawada, June 3 (IANS) Pre-monsoon rains in many parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Monday provided some respite to people from sweltering heat wave even as Skymet Weather issued an advisory for farmers against…
Chennai, June 3 (IANS) There is 60:40 chance of good Kuruvai paddy crop this time and one can wait until July for the Southwest monsoon. However, the farmers are keeping their fingers crossed, according to…
Ghaziabad, June 3 (IANS) The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) has filed a case against 35 “land mafia” for selling land of a water body to 500 migrants from eastern UP, Bihar and West Bengal and…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) In a latest advisory issued on Monday, private weather forecaster Skymet has said that this year the country’s southern and central states might witness late and weak monsoon. According to…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Madras High Court order quashing of the land acquisition process for the Chennai-Salem eight-lane expressway project. A vacation bench of Justice…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Amid the rising mercury levels in the national capital, the peak power demand on Monday touched 6,612 megawatt (MW), highest for the season and up by about…
Solan (Himachal Pradesh), June 3 (IANS) An Indo-Israeli team visited the Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry here in Himachal Pradesh to explore the possibility of collaboration in bumblebee rearing, the university said…
Chandigarh, June 3 (IANS) Punjab on Monday decide to desilt and clean ponds in all villages within a fortnight. State Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has directed the authorities that during…
Mathura, June 3 (IANS) Oppressed by intense heat, an eight-foot long Indian rock python slithered to a water tank near a tube well in a village in Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh, alarming villagers. A…
New York, June 3 (IANS) A total of 272 whales were spotted in the waters off New York city last year, an “extraordinary leap” from 2011, when just five of the huge cetaceans were witnessed…