San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Tech giant Google has announced a string of sustainability pledges for its hardware and has said that it aims to neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware like Pixel phones…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 6 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday released a damage assessment report on cyclone Fani which estimates the total damage and loss at Rs 24,176 crore and recovery needs at Rs…
Ranchi, Aug 6 (IANS) Contradicting the All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018 which states that Jharkhand’s Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR) has no tigers, the state Forest Department has claimed the presence of three wild cats…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Heavy rain lashed Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Tuesday, leading to massive traffic snarls at various places. While some parts of the capital city received heavy rainfall,…
Amaravati, Aug 5 (IANS) Nearly 19,000 people in Andhra Pradesh’s flood-hit districts of East and West Godavari remained in relief camps on Monday while authorities continued relief operations. Officials said the flood situation was under…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said it was not against the policy on relocating African cheetah from Namibia to Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. A Division Bench, comprising Justice…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will undertake a mountaineering expedition for the first time and scale the Satopanth mountain in the Gangotri region of Uttarakhand, CISF Director General Rajesh…
Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) The seven lakes and reservoirs supplying drinking water to Mumbai are almost full and the storage is the highest in the past three years, an official spokesperson of the BrihanMumbai Municipal…
Ranchi, Aug 5 (IANS) Heavy showers, which had lashed some areas of Jharkhand a few days ago, had given local farmers hopes of more rains. But the rain clouds seem to have given a go-by…
Tehran, Aug 5 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Choram region of Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province on Monday, Iran’s Seismological Centre said. The epicentre of the quake was reported to…
Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) At least six persons were killed in Mumbai and Satara as rains continued to clobber large stretches of Maharashtra, especially the coastal Konkan region, on Sunday, hitting train services badly. IAF…
Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) At least five persons were killed in Mumbai and Satara as rains continued to clobber large parts of Maharashtra, especially the coastal Konkan region, on Sunday, hitting train services badly. IAF…
Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) At least five persons were killed in Mumbai and Satara as rains continued to batter large parts of Maharashtra, especially the coastal Konkan region, on Sunday, hitting train services hit badly….
Tokyo, Aug 4 (IANS) Researchers found that hazardous chemicals were detected in plastics eaten by seabirds. “We uncovered that four kinds of UV stabilisers and two brominated flame retardants at detection frequencies of 4.6 per…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) A new research centre at the Delhi Assembly to give recommendations to the House will be functional by September, Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said, adding the Assembly…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Aug 4 (IANS) Scottish-Indian entrepreneur and well-known philanthropist Poonam Gupta, who’s popular as Paper Queen, wants to lend a helping hand to clean up Yamuna to save precious heritage assets like…
Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) Mumbai and the coastal Konkan region continued to experience heavy rains on Sunday with the Central Railway services hit on various sectors and boats were deployed to rescue around 400 people…
By Muskan Aggarwal New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Turning a blind eye to trash might be natural for many, but for Chennai-based environmentalist Arun Krishnamurthy, watching garbage being dumped in a nearby pond was the…
Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Four college girls drowned in a raging waterfall in Navi Mumbai on Saturday as entire coastal Maharashtra experienced torrential rains and the region went on a high alert for the next…
Palghar, Aug 3 (IANS) A large cargo ship from Gujarat went adrift and got stuck on the rocks of Vangaon village in Maharashtra following stormy and rough weather conditions in the Arabian Sea on Saturday,…