Hyderabad, March 19 (IANS) Environment conscious people in the Telugu-speaking states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh switched off lights for one hour on Saturday night to mark Earth Hour 2016. The India-Pakistan cricket match, however,…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Environment-conscious citizens and some hotels switched off non-essential lights to observe Earth Hour on Saturday even as the majority stayed glued to television sets for the high-profile India-Pakistan World Twenty 20…
New Delhi: Lights were deemed at India Gate during Earth Hour observed in New Delhi on March 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai/Shimla/Chennai, March 19 (IANS) Thousands of people across the country joined the global community…
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) At least 79 people were killed and 97 injured in separate rain-triggered accidents in Pakistan over the past 10 days, authorities said on Saturday. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said…
Jammu, March 19 (IANS) A soldier is missing after an avalanche hit an army post on Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kargil on Thursday and search operations are on, an army official…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Delhi experienced light rain at many places on Saturday evening followed by a partly cloudy sky, as the maximum temperature settled at 32.6 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s…
London, March 19 (IANS) Researchers have found that the blue tit, collared flycatcher and pied flycatcher have the fastest eyesight in the animal kingdom, with their vision being more than twice as fast as humans….
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) At least eight people were killed overnight due to rains and landslides in Pakistani Kashmir, police said. A rockfall hit half a dozen of houses in Sarli Sacha Sharqi village on…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) It was a sunny Saturday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature at 19 degree Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, a weather official said. “There is…
Srinagar, March 19 (IANS) Weather across Jammu and Kashmir will start improving on Saturday with decrease in overall rainfall activity, meteorological department said. “It is presently raining here, but from today (Saturday) onwards there would…
Beijing, March 19 (IANS) A Buddhist temple in Chinas Shaanxi province, was fined 3,000 yuan ($463) for the illegal possession of a lion within its premises, the media reported on Saturday. Officials confirmed that the…
(151225) — SHANGHAI, Dec. 25, 2015 (Xinhua) — Light rail trains run in heavy smog in east China’s Shanghai, Dec. 25, 2015. A yellow alarm has been issued to alert smog and air pollution by…
By Vishal Gulati Manali, March 18 (IANS) Man’s best friend stood by stranded trekkers in the Himachal snow, but was left behind to fend for himself after the eight were airlifted to safety. Four days…
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) Prakash Javadekar (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The Centre on Friday notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, in…
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) State-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) on Friday completed distribution of eight crore light emitting diode (LED) bulbs over one year across 125 cities in India, an official statement said…
Colombo, March 18 (IANS) Sri Lanka will have 10,000 environment-friendly villages throughout the country by 2020 in its aim to fight global warming, a minister said here on Friday. Media Minister Gayantha Karunathilleke said that…
Dehradun, March 18 (IANS) BJP Uttarakhand legislator Ganesh Joshi, accused of hitting and severely injuring a police horse which necessitated the amputation of one of its legs, was arrested on Friday, police said. The horse…
Panaji, March 18 (IANS) Goa Environment and Forest minister Rajendra Arlekar on Friday said that the process to identify animals and birds which damage farm crops has begun and it was the first step towards…
New York, March 18 (IANS) Astronomers studied the new images of a young star taken by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and said it reveals very early stages of planet formation. The…
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Manoj is deeply unhappy over the Rs.4,000 dished out by the Art of Living (AoL) for acquiring his 1.5 bigha of land along the Yamuna for the…