New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The national capital experienced another hot day on Thursday with the maximum temperature settling at 38.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average, the met office said. It forecast…
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) This Earth Day – April 22 – is special, not only because over one billion people would join hands to tackle higher carbon emission and land erosion,…
Brussels, April 21 (IANS) The European Union (EU) on Thursday called for the swift ratification of the Paris climate agreement. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Commission Vice-President responsible for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic, and…
Colombo, April 21 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government on Thursday said the European Union has lifted a ban imposed on Sri Lankan fisheries products, thus paving the way for fish exports to the EU. Fisheries…
Agartala, April 21 (IANS) Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said on Thursday that he tried to open a dialogue with the Islamic State group but it rebuffed him by sending him a photograph of…
Dodoma, Tanzania, April 21 (IANS) Tanzanian authorities on Thursday launched a nationwide special campaign to clean up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa which attracts more than 50,000 tourists annually. The campaign dubbed ‘leave…
Jakarta, April 21 (IANS) The number of forest hotspots has increased to 63 in Indonesia, most of them in Sumatra Island, official of meteorology and geophysics agency said on Thursday. The Terra and Aqua satellite…
Suva, April 21 (IANS) At least 29 villages in Fiji will be relocated in the aftermath of tropical cyclone Winston that ravaged the Pacific island nation two months ago, state-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) said…
By Imran Khan Patna, April 21 (IANS) This is one marriage in Bihar that could not have gone more green. The bride and the groom planted saplings of fruit trees, as did the rest of…
London, April 21 (IANS) Evaluating satellite data about the thickness of ice cover, sea ice physicists are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean this summer may shrink to the record low…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said money allocated for MGNREGA should be used for “water harvesting” to battle drought. Speaking at the 10th Civil Services Day awards ceremony, Modi…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday accused the BJP of setting Delhi’s dump yards on fire to sabotage the city government’s flagship odd-even restrictions on plying four-wheelers for…
By Imran Khan Dapcha (Nepal), April 21 (IANS) Parvati Adhikari and Sandhya Kumari, washing clothes and filling their ‘gagri’ (water pot) at a tap connected to a natural spring here, are worried over the drying…
Melbourne, April 21 (IANS) A giant fossilised whale tooth — believed to be five million years old — was washed ashore on an Australian beach. Paleontologists believed the tooth, which is bigger than that of…
Pnom Penh, April 21 (IANS) Authorities in southwestern Cambodia’s Kampot province have started distributing clean water to drought-stricken villagers in several districts, officials said on Wednesday. Kampot provincial police chief Mao Chanmathurith said the operation…
By Rajendra Shende The singular credit for conceiving and championing the Nuclear Security Summits unarguably goes to US President Barack Obama. In 2009, he called nuclear terrorism one of the greatest threats to international security…
Chennai: An aerial view of flood affected Chennai on Dec 7, 2015. (Photo: IANS) London, April 21 (IANS) A team of Swiss scientists has developed a novel prediction approach that can forecast Indian monsoon’s yearly…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Bird population in India and across the world faces unprecedented threats, a new book says. “Feathers of Vellayani”, a publication of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board, says that the largest…
Canberra, April 21 (IANS) Australia’s iconic Phillip Island Penguin Parade, one of the nation’s leading tourist attractions, is set for a $40 million facelift. Most of the money will go toward a major upgrade of…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) It was a clear Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 25.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would mainly…