New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Amid anxious moments at the sprawling Yamuna plains, the venue of the World Culture Festival, weather officials here on Thursday forecast that heavy rain is “very likely” in and around…
London, March 10 (IANS) A day after heavy rains and consequent disruption, dozens of flood warnings remained in place in central England on Thursday. The worst-affected areas were in the Midlands where roads were flooded,…
Sandeep Pai & Prathamesh Mulye Kolhapur/Delhi: Five years ago, when Ramakant Desai, 55, hired a drilling rig to sink a borewell to irrigate his maize fields, he struck water at 200 ft. Today, the rig…
New York, March 10 (IANS) Reconstructing an early East African landscape where human ancestors lived 1.8 million years ago, researchers have found that life was quite tough in the ancient times. Our human ancestors, who…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) may ban the controversial Art of Living (AoL) cultural event here if it doesn’t pay up the Rs.5 crore fine slapped on it, a lawyer…
Sydney, March 10 (IANS) How did Madagascar once slot next to India? Where was Australia a billion years ago? To answer such questions, geologists here have developed Cloud-based virtual globes which means anyone with a…
Actor Salman Khan. (File Photo: IANS) Jodhpur (Rajasthan), March 10 (IANS) Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Thursday insisted that he had been wrongly accused of having illegal weapons and killing two blackbucks here in 1998….
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday said he does not mind going to jail if the court wants him to. Asked during an interview by a…
By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, March 10 (IANS) A novel product developed by Nualgi Nano Biotech (NNB), a low-profile biotech company here, is helping clean up sewage-polluted Ulsoor Lake where thousands of fish were found dead…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Thursday morning started on a sunny note in the national capital with the maximum temperature recorded 15.8 degrees celsius, two notches above the season’s average. Met has forecast partly cloudy…
Srinagar, March 10 (IANS) The local weather department on Thursday forecast heavy rains in plains and snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir Valley during the next three days. The forecast has triggered panic as heavy…
Washington, March 10 (IANS) An official of a California-based auction house pleaded guilty of smuggling carvings and other items made from protected wildlife worth $1 million. Joseph Chait, a senior auction administrator of the I.M….
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Faulting every concerned government agency over a cultural event on the fragile banks of Yamuna this weekend, a green court has slapped a Rs.5 crore fine on its organisers, Sri…
New Delhi: Preparations for spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s World Culture Festival underway in New Delhi on March 9, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) As one looks from the Delhi Noida…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Faulting every concerned government agency over a cultural event to be held on the fragile banks of Yamuna this weekend, a green court has slapped a Rs.5-crore fine on its…
Patna, March 9 (IANS) The use of army personnel for a private or a non-governmental organisation’s event, like the mega cultural show of the Art of Living Foundation in Delhi, is a wrong precedent, Bihar…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday the controversies over spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AoL) event should now end. ”Now that NGT (National Green…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi High Court on Wednesday said holding the World Culture Festival on the Yamuna flood plain appears to be a disaster from the ecological point of view. “It’s (event) a…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday slapped an initial fine of Rs.5 crore on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar-led Art of Living foundation, but declined to stay the holding of the…
Bhopal: Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti during a press conference in Bhopal on Feb 5, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Union Water Resources Minister Uma…