New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The hot, sunny weather continued in the national capital Saturday as the maximum temperature settled four notches above average at 43.2 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is in store Sunday, the Met office said. According to an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Sunday will [...]

Panaji, May 18 (IANS) Animal conservationists have hailed the central government’s decision to ban dolphineriums in India, even as several states had been gearing up for parks and zoos with captive dolphins as the star attraction. In a statement issued here Saturday, the Federation for Indian Animals Protection Organisations (FIAPO), [...]

Shale gas is fast transforming the world’s energy industry. It is cheap, abundant and has the ability to burn cleaner than fossil fuels and has increasingly become an important source of natural gas in several countries including the United States, China, Canada, Australia and Europe. The World Future Society, a [...]

Palampur: The Himalayas are being pounded again. Timber was stolen first; medicinal and aromatic herbs next. Now power projects are stealing water, life line for 30 million mountain folks and 3 billion in the Himalayan-water-dependent nations, as far as Vietnam. [1] The reassessed country-wise potential is: Pakistan: 41,722 MW, India [...]

London, May 18 (IANS) A stressful job can change the way body handles fat, resulting in raised cholesterol levels and even a heart disease, almost fatal for anyone. According to Spanish researchers, stressful situations affect how the body metabolises fat – ultimately leading the body with too much ‘bad’ cholesterol,” [...]

New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Eighteen-year-old Priyanka Sharma says she feels like an outcast when fellow commuters get up as she sits beside them or her friends call her a cow. The reason: A white patch on her forehand five years ago that soon spread to other parts of her [...]

Shillong, May 18 (IANS) CMJ University Saturday decided to file a writ appeal after the Meghalaya High Court directed the controversial private varsity to stop admissions while throwing out its appeal to allow it to continue admissions. “Our clients (CMJ University) will be filing a writ appeal before the division [...]

Bhubaneswar, May 18 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Odisha chief secretary for failing to submit a report on the problems faced by patients and Ayush doctors in the state, a petitioner said Saturday. “Such doctors are being forced to prescribe allopathic medicines although they are [...]

Panaji, May 18 (IANS) Ecologist Madhav Gadgil has picked holes in former ISRO head K. Kasturirangan’s high-level working group (HLWG) report on the environmentally sensitive Western Ghats, saying it endorses “exploitation” of the region’s natural resources. Gadgil, a Padma Bhushan awardee, added that the report also favours the “rich and [...]

Ranchi, May 18 (IANS) Rampaging elephants trampled two people to death in a village on the outskirts of the Jharkhand capital Ranchi Friday, an official said Saturday. “Two people were trampled to death by a herd of elephants at Bisa village on the outskirts of Ranchi,” Rajiv Bakshi, district forest [...]