Shimla, Oct 28 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday declared the state free of open defecation under the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’, thereby ensuring a clean state. The hill state is the first…
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Three more birds succumbed to bird flu here on Friday, prompting the authorities to shut down a park in Paschim Vihar in west Delhi, officials said. Earlier, Delhi Zoo, the…
By Abhishek Waghmare As Delhis air quality begins to deteriorate with Diwali, new government data indicates that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) governments restrictions on cars based on odd-even number plates-between January 1-15, 2016, and…
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) Global environmental groups on Friday applauded the United Nations’ shipping agency decision for setting global regulations to limit the amount of sulphur emissions from vessels from 2020. “This is a…
By Ashish Mishra Jaipur, Oct 28 (IANS) Sahab Ram Saharan, a farmer in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar district, some 15 km from the India-Pakistan border, finds cultivating traditional crops unprofitable. Now, encouraged by the government, he…
Sydney, Oct 28 (IANS) An enormous Antarctic bay, home to penguins and killer whales, became the world’s largest protected marine area on Friday. A UN body sealed the deal after five years of negotiations, at…
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) It was a sunny Friday morning here, with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.1 degrees Celsius, season’s normal, the weather office said. “The sky will remain clear during the day….
Bismarck (North Dakota), Oct 28 (IANS) Authorities moved in on protesters who had set up a camp on private land to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, media reports said. The monthslong protests…
Visakhapatnam, Oct 27 (IANS) Cyclonic storm Kyant in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday weakened into a deep depression and lay centred about 280 km south-southeast of Visakhapatnam, Met officials here said. According to a…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) With continuous deterioration in its air quality, Delhi on Thursday breathed the most polluted air of the month as the Air Quality Index (AQI) dipped to the season’s threshold at…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 27 (IANS) Kerala Animal Husbandry Minister K. Raju on Thursday informed the state assembly that there need be no panic over reports of the death of ducks due to avian flu (H5N1 virus)…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Delhi government is planning to install Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) and weigh-in-motion sensors at all 13 entry points to the national capital, a government statement said on Thursday….
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The future of many living organisms is under question as the world may loss 68 percent of its wildlife by 2020 — a possible prelude for the sixth mass extinction,…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday stressed on India’s need to urbanise rapidly in the next two decades in line with its present development in order to relieve the…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 27 (IANS) Odisha is likely to receive rainfall as cyclonic storm Kyant forming over the Bay of Bengal weakened into a deep depression, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. “Rain or…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The global wildlife population could fall by an average of 67 per cent between 1970 and 2020 as a result of human activities, according to World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 27 (IANS) Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala on Thursday called union minister Maneka Gandhi a “hypocrite” for opposing the killing of stray dogs in Kerala. “Maneka Gandhi is a hypocrite. Who does she think…
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) It was a clear Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.5 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will mainly remain clear during…
Rome, Oct 27 (IANS) A strong 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Italy on Wednesday evening, local media reported. The tremor had its epicentre in the province of Macerata in the Marche region, Xinhua news agency reported, citing…
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) With reports of three more birds dying in the national capital, including one in Delhi zoo, both the Delhi and central governments on Wednesday geared up to contain further spread…