Kolkata, April 23 (IANS) A severe heat wave will hit three districts in West Bengal in the next four days while state capital Kolkata will experience sultry conditions, weather officials said on Saturday. “In Bankura,…
Imphal, April 23 (IANS) Leery of fencing work along Indo-Myanmar border, a committee of about 40 villages in Manipur has announced it will not allow any government official or work inside their area. “No government…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 23 (IANS) International support through sharing expertise and experiences and by providing financial assistance is essential for climate change projects to succeed, said Ajay Mathur, director general of The…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 23 (IANS) Investors and corporate boards can be convinced to make green investments by showing them the value of tangible and intangible future returns, industrialist Mahendra Singhi has said….
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) If forty degrees centigrade is the new thirty today, consider April to be the new May-June. Or so says the rising mercury, which indicates that the sweltering heat…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 23 (IANS) The historic Paris Climate Change Agreement signed by India and 174 other countries affords “business a chance to redeem itself from the trust deficit” bedeviling it, according…
Srinagar, April 23 (IANS) Weather will improve across Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday onwards as light rains were forecast by Met office on Saturday. “There would be overall improvement in weather across the state from…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) It was a sunny Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 23 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season, the weather office said. “The sky will…
New York: Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar addresses during the High-level Thematic Debate on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in New York on April 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB)…
United Nations, April 23 (IANS) Representatives from 175 countries met on Friday at the UN to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and made clear the urgency of taking action to stop global warming….
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 22 (IANS) The historic climate change agreement was ceremonially launched Friday with 171 countries lining up to sign the document that US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Ambassadors, high commissioners, and diplomats from 34 countries gathered at a park here on Friday and planted tree saplings to mark the ‘International Mother Earth Day’ and to laud the…
Women cover their faces to avoid direct contact with sun on a hot day. (File Photo: IANS) Bhubaneswar, April 22 (IANS) Several parts of Odisha continued to reel under severe heat wave conditions with 15…
Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) As many as 50 hotels, palaces and resorts of the Taj Group have bagged the EarthCheck Gold Certification for savings of $6,107,585 through reduction in energy, water and waste, it was…
Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) Shopping for eco-friendly crafts fabricated from water hyacinth, making wishes in front of a replica of a red sandstone ‘wish fulfilling tree’ dating back to 2nd century B.C. and an exhibition…
Hyderabad, April 22 (IANS) Telangana remained in the grip of heat wave with many places sizzling with maximum temperature over 44 degrees Celsius on Friday. Nalgonda was the hottest place with mercury rising to 45…
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 22, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Ashish Mishra New…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A day after environmentalist R.K. Pachauri ‘stepped down’ from TERI’s governing council, lawyer Vrinda Grover on Friday said he should have been asked to step down by authorities or suspended…
Imphal, April 22 (IANS) Inclement weather continued in most of the northeastern states with a thunderstorm damaging houses and disrupting power supply, official sources said on Friday. On Thursday evening, a strong thunderstorm lashed several…
Faridabad, April 22 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Faridabad has submitted its final Smart City Proposal entailing a projected expenditure of Rs.2,600.01 crore to the urban development ministry, a senior official said on Friday. The…