A green marriage solemnised in Bihar to save the environment
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…
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Arctic sea ice decline may equal negative record of 2012
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…
Use MGNREGA money for water harvesting: Modi
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…
BJP set Delhi dumps on fire to fail odd-even: AAP
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…
Trudge for water gets longer as springs dry up in Nepal’s mid-hills
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…
5-million-year-old whale tooth washes ashore in Australia
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…
Drought-hit Cambodian villagers now getting clean water
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…
Paris climate deal: Song of a dying swan?
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…
Scientists develop model to predict Indian monsoon in advance
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…
Bird population threatened like never before: Book
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…
Australia’s iconic penguin-parade set for major facelift
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…
Clear Thursday morning in Delhi
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…
Will give roses to protest odd-even scheme: BJP leader
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai meets BJP MP Vijay Goel at his residence to persuade him not to violate the odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi, on April 18,…
AAP government cracks down on surge pricing by cabs
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai inspects trail of implementation of odd-even formula begins in New Delhi on Dec 31, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Cracking the whip against unscrupulous…
Lalu’s son-in-law desires housing society in river zone
Ghaziabad, April 20 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s son-in-law Rahul Yadav has applied to the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) for approval of a group housing project in a river conservation zone here. Treating it as…
Police horse Shaktimaan loses battle with life
Dehradun, April 20 (IANS) Shaktimaan, an Uttarakhand Police horse that lost a leg in an attack by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator last month, died on Wednesday, days after it got a prosthetic limb,…
Shaktimaan, the injured police horse, dead
Dehradun, April 20 (IANS) Days after it got a prosthetic limb, Shaktimaan, an Uttarakhand Police horse which lost a leg in an attack by a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator last month, died on Wednesday, an…
Mitsubishi admits to improper fuel efficiency claims
Tokyo, April 20 (IANS) The global auto industry was again rocked by a controversy on Wednesday with Japan’s sixth-largest vehicle maker Mitsubishi admitting to manipulation of data to make false claims on fuel efficiency in…
Giant coolers, water melons beat the heat for Delhi Zoo animals
By Archana Rao New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) From setting up giant coolers and mini water pools, to adding electrolytes in drinking water and providing loads of cooling fruit like cucumber and water melons –…
Cabinet okays ‘Paris Global Climate Agreement’ signing
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of the Global Climate Agreement adopted at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP-21) held in Paris in 2015. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar,…