London, April 20 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched India’s interest for the development of small island nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here. Briefing the media here, Ruchi…
Colombo, April 19 (IANS) Over 500,000 people still remain affected by the drought in 10 districts of Sri Lanka, according to a report released by the Sri Lankan Disaster Management Centre (DMC) on Thursday. The…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Delhi power distribution company (Discom) BSES on Thursday announced that it has signed separate agreements with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to deal with different aspects of energy conservation…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Amid green organisations voicing concern over the absence of pollution reduction targets, the Union Environment Ministry on Thursday called for time-bound implementation of the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The…
Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) Reliance Industries (RIL) and British oil major BP on Thursday jointly announced the sanction of development work on the “Satellite cluster” deep-water gas fields in their Krishna Godavari (KG) D6 block…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Human-wildlife conflict turned ugly in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit Tiger Reserve after villagers beat a tiger to death and slit its throat, officials said on Thursday. The feline was slaughtered two-and-a-half…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) It was a sunny morning in the national capital on Thursday with the maximum temperature set to touch 40 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature was recorded at 23 degrees Celsius,…
Yangon, April 19 (IANS) One person has been killed and more than 800 houses, including monasteries, have been destroyed in a storm that hit Myanmar over the past three days, media reports said on Thursday….
Jakarta, April 19 (IANS) A shallow earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale hit Central Java region in Indonesia killing at least two persons, a disaster agency official said on Thursday. Twenty-one others were injured…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday termed West Bengal as the only place in the country where illegal killing of wild animals is “allowed and encouraged”, prompting…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central government about the steps taken on the issue of depletion of groundwater in Delhi, and sought the presence of the Central Ground…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) Altogether 18 deaths were reported in the city and four southern districts following the twin storms accompanied by rains which lashed parts of West Bengal on Tuesday night, Chief Minister Mamata…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday termed West Bengal as the only place in the country where illegal killing of wild animals is “allowed and encouraged”….
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Humans running into tigers and leopards, that left at least 156 people dead and injured in Dudhwa-Pilibhit area of Uttar Pradesh between 2000 and 2013 were due…
London, April 18 (IANS) Costa Coffee, the UK’s lagest coffeeshop chain, announced on Wednesday that it will try and recycle every takeaway cup sold by 2020. The company said it was aiming to recycle every…
London, April 18 (IANS) The long-held belief that strange behaviour by cats, dogs and even cows can predict an imminent earthquake is not backed by evidence, according to a new study. Such claims are often…
Washington, April 18 (IANS) More than 95 per cent of the world’s population is breathing unhealthy air, with India and China jointly contributing to over 50 per cent of global deaths attributed to pollution, a…
Warsaw, April 18 (IANS) The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that increased logging in Poland’s ancient Bialowieza forest has violated EU environmental laws and the country was facing massive fines. At least 10,000…
Kathmandu, April 18 (IANS) Five Nepalese female journalists on Wednesday left on an expedition to climb Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. The team, “First Women Journalists Everest Expedition 2018”, will climb the 8,848 metres…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Increasing the acreage of wet crops like rice — and also increasing the watering structures in areas that already have wet crops — appear to be helping…