New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday formed an expert committee headed by a retired judge to decide whether to allow Vedanta Limited to open its Sterlite Copper plant in…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Social networking giant Facebook is donating $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.75 crore) for relief work in Kerala, which has been battered by torrential rains, floods and landslides, leaving over 300 dead…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (IANS) The Kerala unit of CPI on Monday admonished Forest Minister P. Raju from the party for leaving for Germany last week when the state was in the grip of devastating floods…
Kochi, Aug 20 (IANS) Health officials on Monday began disposing of carcasses after numerous animals became victims of the worst ever floods to hit Kerala. On Monday morning, official teams went around areas in and…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (IANS) A Keralite working in Sultanate of Oman in a supermarket has been terminated from his job following a highly insensitive post he wrote in the wake of the worst-ever floods in…
Kolkata, Aug 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that the state government is drawing up major schemes for promoting renewable energy including solar. “Today is National Renewable Energy Day. Our…
Kodagu (Karnataka), Aug 20 (IANS) About 4,320 marooned people have been rescued till Monday morning in flood-hit Kodagu district in Karnataka as the rescue work entered its final stage in search of nearly 50 persons…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (IANS) Speeding monster tipper lorries carrying granite stones and sand were a dreaded sight for any pedestrian in Kerala, yet in the large flooded areas of the state, these are the vehicles…
Kodagu (Karnataka), Aug 20 (IANS) Even as hundreds remained stranded on hilltops in towns and villages in flood-hit Kodagu in Karnataka, an official said 4,320 marooned people have been rescued till Monday. “The rescue work…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) If you are a student or a citizen scientist and curious to understand how waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago have been changing as a consequence of the warming trend…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (IANS) As rescue operations in Kerala on Monday entered its final stages, the biggest challenge before the authorities in the flood aftermath turned into managing the over 5,500 relief camps housing more…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, Aug 20 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh, the country’s fruit and off-season vegetable bowl, has launched a scheme this year to scale up zero-budget natural farming, a chemical-free method, with Governor Acharya Devvrat…
Canberra, Aug 20 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday said his government has abandoned plans to set an emissions reduction target in legislation. Turnbull said he would not proceed with the emissions target…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) It was a cloudy morning here on Monday with the minimum temperature recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average. “The sky will be generally cloudy with…
Santo Domingo, Aug 20 (IANS) Peruvian actor Richard Torres has “married” a tree in the Dominican Republic capital to draw attention to the indiscriminate felling of forests. In the curious ceremony on Sunday in the…
Jammu, Aug 20 (IANS) A small batch of 43 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the Kashmir Valley to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. This is the smallest batch of pilgrims to leave on the…
New Delhi/Kodagu (Karnataka), Aug 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday assured Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy of help in the rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit Kodagu district, said an official statement….
Kodagu (Karnataka), Aug 19 (IANS) A total of 4,225 marooned people have been rescued so far in Karnataka’s flood-hit Kodagu district even as incessant rains continued to hamper relief work, said an official on Sunday….
Jakarta, Aug 19 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia’s Lombok island again on Sunday but no tsunami alert was issued, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. The quake had its…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 19 (IANS) As the rain fury finally abated on Sunday, 724,649 people remained in 5,645 camps in Kerala following “one of the worst ever floods” that has left about 370 dead and caused…