Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) With two successive years of poor monsoon, the rural job guarantee scheme will be used for asset creation in rural areas, especially for…
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, March 27 (IANS) Seventeen young Indians have returned from Antarctica with breath-taking stories of its icebergs, icy winds, weather and inhabitants – penguins, seals, whales and sharks. “It’s an out of…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Tirunelveli, March 27 (IANS) Twenty-three-year-old G. Nelson Chinnadurai decided to handle the tilling machine and toil on the family’s 3.5 acre dry land in Karisalpatti panchayat in Tirunveli district instead of handling…
Singapore, March 27 (IANS) Cyclists, walkers and joggers took to the roads yet again as Singapore’s Car-Free Sunday returned for its second run with extended hours and routes. Under the initiative, planned for every last…
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) It was a pleasant Sunday morning in the national capital, with the minimum temperature recorded at 19.5 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain clear throughout the…
Bengaluru, March 26 (IANS) Software major Infosys on Saturday unveiled a project for distributing 43,000 bio-fuel cook stoves over the next nine months to 21,500 families in Karnataka’s Koppal district. “The project will be implemented…
Hong Kong, March 26 (IANS) Residents of some of Hong Kong’s public housing complexes are turning to mountain springs for drinking water following a scandal over water tainted with lead, authorities said on Saturday. People…
New York, March 26 (IANS) Honeybees have the potential to use vibrational “stop signals” to warn their mates about dangers from predators attacking foragers or the nest, finds an interesting study. Scientists found that an…
Jakarta, March 26 (IANS) More than 150 people were displaced following landslides in Central Java in Indonesia,the a media report said on Saturday. Continuous, heavy rains, which have drenched the Banjarnegara district, caused three successive…
By Anil Giri Kathmandu, March 26 (IANS) The world tallest mountain, Everest, has developed several cracks and holes due to the devastating April 25, 2015 earthquake, ‘ice-fall’ doctors who are installing ropes and aluminum ladders…
Agra, March 26 (IANS) A rare dusky eagle owl fledgling at Taj Mahal here has been rescued by the wildlife officials. The owl, rescued on Friday, was sent to the Wildlife Hospital of Wildlife SOS…
Seoul, March 26 (IANS) While it is only natural for birds living among people to learn to differentiate individual humans, researchers have found that skuas living in remote Antarctica too can recognise people who had…
Jammu/Srinagar, March 26 (IANS) Incessant rains in the plains and fresh snowfall in the mountains on Saturday affected life in Jammu and Kashmir. “Moderate rainfall continued in the plains and there has been fresh snowfall…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) The weather department has predicted light rain in Delhi on Saturday evening with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.6 degrees Celsius. “The sky would remain partly cloudy in the morning….
Shimla, March 25 (IANS) Thunderstorms accompanied by hail may hit Himachal Pradesh in the next 24 hours with light to moderate rain in the mid and low hills and snow in the higher reaches, the…
Jammu, March 25 (IANS) A soldier went missing on Friday after an avalanche hit an army patrol party on the Siachen glacier in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. “Two soldiers were…
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) It was a sunny Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 18 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would remain…
Washington, March 25 (IANS) A federal judge in San Francisco gave Volkswagen an additional month — till April 21 — to come up with a solution for around 600,000 diesel vehicles sold in the US…
Vrindavan, March 25 (IANS) In a petition filed by an environmentalist charging the local administration with neglecting solid waste management and failing to provide landfill site, the NGT has asked a commissioner to visit Vrindavan…
Panaji, March 24 (IANS) Samples taken from two monkey carcasses found earlier this week in the forests of Goa have tested positive for Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) locally known as monkey fever, a health official…