Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) Indian school students, participating in an international exchange programme between US’ Chabot Space & Science Center and Science City in Kolkata, have designed prototypes for purifying hospital air, generating electricity from…
Mathura, March 29 (IANS) Union minister Maneka Gandhi, who is also a wildlife activist, on Tuesday spent some time with elephants rescued from illegal captivity at the Elephant Conservation and Care Centre in Mathura. Thanking…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday said CNG vehicles will remain exempt from restrictions during the second phase of odd-even traffic scheme which starts from April 15 while the other exemptions…
By Deepa Padmanaban Findings of a new Indian Institute of Science study that used satellite-borne sensors, compared images over decades and modeled past and future growth reveal the rate of urbanisation in four Indian cities….
Los Angeles, March 29 (IANS) Fungi will be sent for the first time to the International Space Station for the development of medicine, said researchers at the University of Southern California (USC). The experiments, to…
Phnom Penh, March 29 (IANS) Cambodian authorities on Tuesday seized 102 elongated tortoises and 17 pythons from a truck which was on its way to Vietnam. Police stopped the truck some 20 km from capital…
New York, March 29 (IANS) The formation of a distinct pattern of sea surface temperatures in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean can predict an increased chance of summer heat waves in the eastern…
London, March 29 (IANS) In a first, researchers in Scotland are using smartphone-based technology to find the reason behind plummeting numbers of harbour seals in the country. Part of a three-year study by researchers at…
Abu Dhabi, March 29 (IANS/WAM) The UAE’S National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) has urged motorists to exercise caution, reduce the speed and leave enough distance between vehicles because of dust storm. The statement…
Canberra, March 29 (IANS) Evidence that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record has renewed calls for the United Nations to list it as “in-danger”, media reported. Australia’s National Coral…
New York, March 29 (IANS) Rising levels of nitrogen pollution in the atmosphere can threaten and harm plant diversity, warns a new study. Nitrogen plays an important role in biological processes and makes up a…
Jakarta, March 29 (IANS) A satellite observation on Tuesday detected that the number of forest hotspots in Indonesia has risen to 40 from 13 on March 18, with most of them in Sumatra island, an…
Washington, March 29 (IANS) Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low winter-time maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to NASA scientists. The new record low follows record high…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) It was a sunny Tuesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 18.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would remain…
By Anil Giri Kathmandu, March 28 (IANS) A massive dust storm swept through the Kathmandu Valley on Monday, due to which at least half a dozen people were injured, flights were held up for an…
New York, March 28 (IANS) The disappearance of Arctic Sea ice due to massive climate change is causing the surface of Greenland’s melt area to increase, thereby fuelling a steep rise in the sea-level, finds…
London, March 28 (IANS) Storm Katie bringing gusts of up to 105 mph or about 170 km an hour battered England and Wales, forcing many flights to be diverted from airports and major bridges to…
Dhaka, March 28 (IANS) A fire has swept through Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and one of the last remaining habitats for tigers, a Bangladeshi official said on Monday. Saidur Rahman, a divisional forest…
New York, March 28 (IANS) The historic agreement reached at last year’s UN conference in Paris to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial Revolution levels…
Mumbai, March 28 (IANS) Actress Vidya Balan has started shooting for the upcoming second instalment of the Hindi mystery thriller film “Kahaani”. The “Paa” actress is shooting in Kalimpong, a hill station in the Indian…