Chandigarh, Dec 29 (IANS) Cold wave conditions intensified in most parts of Punjab and Haryana on Saturday with Adampur town in Punjab recording a freezing minus 1.7 degree Celsius, Met officials said. While Hisar town…
Gangtok, Dec 29 (IANS) As many as 2,946 tourists are stranded in Sikkim due to heavy snowfall which is hindering vehicular movement, an official said on Saturday. “Heavy snowfall occurred in the upper reaches of…
Jaipur, Dec 29 (IANS) A cold wave has gripped Rajasthan as the temperature continued to dip. All the cities in the state are recording below average minimum temperatures for the last few days, Met officials…
Manila, Dec 29 (IANS) A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Davao Oriental province in the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. No damage has been…
Shimla, Dec 29 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh on Saturday witnessed a sunny but chilly day with temperature in many areas staying below freezing point, the Met Office said. “It was a bright, sunny day across the…
Srinagar, Dec 29 (IANS) A severe cold wave triggered by the bone chilling night temperature continued unabated in the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region on Saturday, the Met Office said. There was no relief from…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The national capital woke up to a cold morning on Saturday as the mercury dipped to 2.6 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average — the season’s lowest temperature…
Rome, Dec 29 (IANS/AKI) The Fall Armyworm — an invasive crop-eating pest — has spread through sub-Saharan Africa and has also reached India and Yemen, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation tweeted on Friday. The…
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) The eastern metropolis on Friday witnessed the coldest day of the season as mercury plummeted to 11.2 degrees Celsius on the back of an uninterrupted flow of the north-westerly winds sweeping…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The cabinet has approved the submission of second Biennial Update Report (BUR) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), giving India’s national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory of 2014,…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification-2018 for promoting economic growth in the coastal areas, the government said on Friday….
Jakarta, Dec 28 (IANS) A massive evacuation was ordered from the coast along Indonesia’s western Sunda Strait on Friday after the warning of a possible second tsunami triggered by the eruption of the Anak Krakatau…
By Vishal Gulati Manali, Dec 28 (IANS) Now you don’t have to depend on natural snow to ski in the Solang Valley of Himachal Pradesh. The slopes of the picturesque Valley in the western Himalayas,…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) He’s a legendary Russian player and will play a symbolic ‘Last Ice Hockey Game at the North Pole’ in the Arctic in the spring 2019. He is…
Shimla, Dec 28 (IANS) Manali and its nearby hills in Himachal Pradesh received more snow on Friday and are wrapped in a white blanket to the glee of tourists, the Met Office said. People in…
Jakarta, Dec 28 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia’s Papua Barat province on Friday, officials said. There was, however, no report of any casualty. The earthquake had an epicentre of…
Jammu/Srinagar, Dec 28 (IANS) Record-breaking cold continued on Friday in both Jammu and Srinagar cities as intense cold wave lashed Jammu and Kashmir, the Met Office said. “The minimum temperature in Jammu was 2.6 degrees…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) It was a cold Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the Met Office said. The…
Dehradun, Dec 28 (IANS) Three youngsters were killed in Tehri on Thursday night after their vehicle lost way due to heavy fog and fell into a gorge, police said on Friday. The incident happened on…
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) At least three labourers were killed and two others injured when part of a coal mine collapsed in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Thursday, officials said. The miners were working in…