Jakarta, Dec 24 (IANS) Indonesian authorities have confirmed the death of at least 281 people in the devastating tsunami that hit the Sunda Strait in the western part of the archipelago on Saturday night, which…
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday expressed grief over the loss of life and damage caused by a tsunami that hit the coast Sunda Strait in Indonesia killing 281…
Srinagar, Dec 24 (IANS) At minus 6.8 degrees Celsius Srinagar recorded the coldest December night on Monday after over a decade, as a severe cold wave swept through the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region,…
Lhasa, Dec 24 (IANS) A 5.8-magnitude quake hit Xigaze city in Tibet autonomous region early on Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). No casualties have been reported. The epicentre was Xaitongmoin county…
Jakarta, Dec 24 (IANS) Coastal residents near Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano have been warned to keep away from beaches amid fears it could trigger a new tsunami. On Saturday, giant waves crashed into coastal towns…
United Nations, Dec 24 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed grief over the loss of life, injuries and damage caused by a tsunami that hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait. The Secretary-General extended…
Shimla, Dec 23 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation (HPMC) is working on a project to upgrade and establish controlled atmosphere stores and packing houses in the state, an official said…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Expressing alarm over air pollution in the national capital, experts and stakeholders on Sunday stressed stricter enforcement of environmental laws, stronger legal and institutional frameworks and technological capacity of pollution…
Jakarta, Dec 23 (IANS) At least 168 people have been killed and 745 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials said on Sunday. There was no warning of the…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Sharp drop in the minimum temperature caused the air quality in Delhi-NCR to turned ‘severe’ on Sunday and as per the Met it will remain so till Monday morning as…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Commitments to climate actions have been made by more than 9,000 cities from 128 countries, around 240 states and regions from over 40 countries and more than 6,000 businesses in…
By Mayank Aggarwal Guwahati, Dec 23 (IANS/Mongabay) The Himalayan region supports about 20 percent of the worlds population. But the ecologically fragile region, the storehouse of the third-highest amount of frozen water on earth, is…
Jakarta, Dec 23 (IANS) At least 62 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait possibly following undersea landslides after the Krakatoa volcano erupted, government officials…
Srinagar, Dec 23 (IANS) Icy cold winds blowing from the snow-clad mountains brought down the temperatures to minus 17.3 in Drass town on Sunday as the cold wave intensified in the Kashmir Valley. There will…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Engulfed in a blanket of shallow fog and haze, the national capital on Sunday recorded 3.7 degrees Celsius — the coldest day this December with the air quality remaining ‘severe’,…
Jakarta, Dec 23 (IANS) At least 43 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, officials said. The country’s disaster management agency says two people are…
Jakarta, Dec 23 (IANS) At least 20 people have been killed and 165 injured after a tsunami hit the coast around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials say. The country’s disaster management agency says two people…
Guwahati/Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Concerned by the growing incidents of human elephants conflict in Assam, the Indian Tea Association has organized a meet at Kolkata to consider an industry-wide collaboration to address human-elephant conflict faced…
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal has ordered formation of an expert committee to explore best possible secondary use of the rejected water by commercial and individual users of the reverse osmosis…
Hyderabad, Dec 22 (IANS) Union minister for Environment, Forests, Climate Change and Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday lauded the services of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS). Inaugurating the new building…