New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) A Delhi government school teacher, facing departmental proceedings for allegedly submitting a fake caste certificate for the job, has got relief from the Central Administrative Tribunal, which has annulled the action against her and ordered an inquiry into the veracity of the document. Principal Bench [...]

New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) India needs to take sector-specific action and develop a mechanism to track the achievements in each area to achieve the goal of reducing carbon emissions, says a study conducted by WWF-India. The Indian government aims to reduce carbon emissions by 20-25 percent from the 2005 [...]

New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) There was no respite from the heat in the Indian capital Wednesday with the minimum temperature settling four notches above average at 30.3 degrees Celsius, the hottest morning of the season so far. Tuesday was the season’s hottest day. An India Meteorological Department (IMD) official [...]

Washington, May 22 (IANS) Residents of suburban Oklahoma were returning home as rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead after a mammoth tornado – said to be as wide as 22 football fields – flattened countless homes and claimed 24 lives, including nine children. [...]

Panaji, May 21 (IANS) The Goa Medical College (GMC), the state’s top health facility, regularly faces water shortage because people steal taps installed in the hospital premises, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Tuesday. The water shortage is putting patients and their kin to hardships, especially during the scorching summer season. [...]

Hyderabad, May 21 (IANS) Annapurna International School of Film and Media will conduct a four-week summer workshop on filmmaking for engineering students, beginning May 27, the institution said Tuesday. The workshop involves working in teams to develop stories and to produce films. This process enables students to gain experience in [...]

Bangalore, May 21 (IANS) Leading multi-specialty healthcare chain Narayana Hrudayalaya Tuesday announced it will offer day care breast surgery, keeping in view the emotional, physical and financial stress a patient undergoes. “The day care, one-night, out-patient and ambulatory breast surgery centre manages a patient’s expectations through a pre-operative assessment and [...]

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Increasing numbers of African students are keen to study in Indian universities, with a steep rise in African researchers seeking science and technology fellowships in this country, officials said Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of the C.V. Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers 2013, Arabinda [...]

Sanawar (Himachal Pradesh): Six boys of Lawrence School, Sanawar, located in the picturesque Kasauli Hills here today scaled the Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain peak, school officials said. Those who scaled the peak were Guribadat Singh, Prithvi Singh, Ajay Sohal, Shubham, Fateh Singh and Raghav Juneja. They were in [...]

Chandigarh: Heat wave condition intensified further across Punjab and Haryana today with temperatures at some places crossing 46 degrees Celsius yesterday, the weather office here said. Temperatures remained five to seven degrees above normal across both states. Ludhiana in Punjab was the hottest in the region with the mercury hitting a [...]