Brussels, May 15 (IANS) Michael Gillon and the team from the University of Liege started their research project five years ago. Only in September last year they discovered three planets orbiting around a nearby dwarf…
Kathmandu, May 15 (IANS) A Nepali government survey has said that forests today take 44.74 percent of the total 141,718 sq km area of the Himalayan country, compared to the total forest cover of 39.6…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) It was a sunny and warm morning on Sunday in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 27.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, weather officials…
Hyderabad, May 14 (IANS) After a respite of a few days due to unseasonal rains, mercury has started rising again in Telangana and the met office has issued a heat wave warning. Several places in…
Bhubaneswar, May 14 (IANS) The south-west monsoon will hit the Odisha coast by June 8, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday said. “The onset of south-west monsoon will take place over Andaman and…
Shimla, May 14 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday experienced warm weather with the state’s Una town recording a high of 41.8 degrees Celsius, a weatherman said here. “Temperatures increased due to prevailing…
By Ashish Mishra New Delhi, New May 14 (IANS) Delhi will have its first riverfront on the Yamuna but it will not be on the lines of the Sabarmati in Gujarat, along which Prime Minister…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) To help drivers spot elephants and avoid accidents, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)’s Alipurduar Division in West Bengal will soon begin field trials of night vision cameras installed in locomotives, an…
Washington, May 14 (IANS) The local atmosphere in Mars is clear in winter, dustier in spring and summer, and windy in autumn, show measurements by NASA’s Curiosity rover that has completed recording environmental patterns through…
(151020) — MONTREAL, Oct. 20, 2015 (Xinhua) — Canada’s Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau gives his victory speech after the federal election, in Montreal early Oct. 20, 2015. The Liberal party defeated Prime Minister Stephen…
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) It was a sunny and warm morning on Saturday in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 27 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. “The skies…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Monsoon is expected to hit Kerala by May 28 – two to three days early, predict weather analysts. The monsoon this year would reach Andaman and Nicobar Islands by May…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Railways on Monday said Latur officials had requested the Central Railway to “indicate” the cost of ferrying water by train to the parched district in Maharashtra. It said settlement…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Friday, the 13th, turned out to be hot as hell for Delhiites with the maximum temperature soaring to 43 degrees Celsius — making it the hottest May 13 since 2011,…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A wildlife welfare organisation on Friday criticised and urged the US-based online retailer Amazon to take down protected wild and aquatic animal specimens and hunting equipment from its ‘sale list’….
Hyderabad, May 13 (IANS) The Society for Advancement of Human Endeavour (SAHE), a not for profit organisation, on Friday announced an initiative to recharge 10,000 defunct or dried up borewells in Hyderabad. The initiative is…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said ecological and environmental balance has to be maintained while constructing the 3,300-km East-West Corridor or the Silchar-Saurashtra Mahasadak project, which has been…
Chandigarh, May 13 (IANS) With maximum temperatures at most places in Haryana and Punjab soaring beyond 40 degrees on Friday, heat wave conditions returned to the region after a respite of over 10 days. Haryana’s…
Abu Dhabi, May 13 (IANS/WAM) A UAE researcher has contributed to the discovery of a new species of ant, according to a paper published in the Journal of Natural History. The study, led by Mostafa…
Shivpuri, May 13 (IANS) An animal lover in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh hosted hundreds people at a grand wedding for his she-camel Kallo with he-camel Gopal from Rajasthan. Naresh Raghuvanshi distributed about a thousand…