By Vinayak Dutt New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Art of Living (AoL) foundation on Friday expressed its inability to pay the “remaining green fine” of Rs.4.75 Crore to the National Green Tribunal that was levied…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) In a bid to encourage private car owners to switch to public transport and complement the odd-even traffic scheme, the Delhi government on Friday announced a policy for app-based premium…
United Nations, April 22 (IANS) Stating that it would require at least $565 billion per annum for the country over the next 15 years to achieve the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, India…
Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) While the proposed reintroduction of Indian tigers in Cambodia seems “fine” from a genetic perspective, it may not be practical if the aim is to establish a viable population of tigers…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Commuters reported traffic snarls in some parts of Delhi and getting delayed in reaching their destinations on the eighth day of the odd-even traffic scheme in the capital on Friday….
Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A known face in south Kolkata’s Jadavpur for championing the cause of disappearing water bodies, environmentalist Mohit Ray hopes to carry forward his activism since college days to mainstream politics as…
London, April 22 (IANS) As the world celebrated Earth Day on Friday, a team of European researchers has found substantially different climate change impacts on Earth for a global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius and…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed his gratitude towards planet Earth. “On Earth Day, reverence and gratitude to our planet that has given us everything,” Modi said on Earth…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 22 (IANS) India is now challenging the developed nations on environmental issues and won’t be pressured by them, according to Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar. “We are showing the way…
New York, April 22 (IANS) In honour of Earth Day and the historic signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change on Friday, the United Nations Postal Administration has issued special edition stamps featuring the…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Tech giant Google on Friday dedicated a doodle on the occasion of Earth Day. Earth Day, observed annually on April 22 since the eventg began in the late 1960s, is…
New Delhi: A view of traffic at ITO on the fifth day of implementation of odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi on April 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) IndiaSpend Team If you…
San Francisco, April 22 (IANS) German automaker Volkswagen has agreed to fix or buy back nearly half a million diesel cars sold in the US but fitted with illegal emissions software. The settlement between Volkswagen…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) It was a Sunny Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 24.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. The sky would remain…
Washington, April 22 (IANS) Celebrating its 26th year in the low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured in stunning clarity what looks like a gigantic cosmic soap bubble being blown into space by a…
Quito, April 22 (IANS) The toll from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Ecuador last week, has climbed to 587 over the weekend, including 27 foreigners, the government has said. Thursday’s report said 539 of…
Ghaziabad, April 21 (IANS) The ground water level in Ghaziabad is going down sharply, according to statistics from the Central Ground Water Authority of India (CGWAI). Revealing the statistics received from the CGWAI’s central public…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The seventh day of the odd-even scheme on Thursday saw Delhi’s ruling AAP and the opposition BJP locked in verbal sparring over fires at different landfill sites, which the AAP…
Bhubaneswar, April 21 (IANS) Torrid heat wave conditions continued in Odisha as nine places recorded temperature above 45 degrees Celsius while the toll due to sunstroke has touched 66, officials said. According to the met…
New Delhi: A view of traffic at ITO on the fifth day of implementation of odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi on April 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 21…