Delhi sees sultry day, highest Yamuna level since 1978
byNew Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Delhi residents experienced a sultry, rainless Wednesday as the maximum temperature shot up a little at 35.5 degrees Celsius…
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Thousands missing in Uttarakhand flood fury, death toll could mount (Roundup)
byDehradun/New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Thousands are said to be missing in Uttarakhand after unprecedented rains and cloudburst led to landslides and flash floods…
Jayalalithaa requests Gogoi for rhino pair
byChennai, June 19 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa requested her Assam counterpart Tarun Gogoi to spare a pair of the greater one-horned…
Two degree rise in temperature will hit India’s agriculture: Report
byNew Delhi, June 19 (IANS) An expected two degrees Celsius rise in the world’s average temperatures in the next few decades would make India’s…
Monsoon catches Delhi unawares this year too
byNew Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Submerged roads, crippled traffic, people wading in knee-deep water mixed with sewage — these are common scenes in the…
Rhino horn seized in Assam
byGuwahati, June 19 (IANS) In continuing operations against illegal trade of rhino horn, police in Assam’s Jorhat district Wednesday recovered a rhino horn worth…
Sultry day in Delhi, Thursday to be cloudy
byNew Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The temperature in the national capital Wednesday shot up a little at 35.5 degrees Celsius – two notches below…
Thousands missing in Kedarnath, death toll may zoom
byDehradun/Lucknow, June 19 (IANS) Thousands of people are missing following the devastating floods in Uttarakhand, officials said Wednesday, adding the death toll may run…
Konkan Railway introduces ‘green’ toilets (With Image)
byMumbai, June 19 (IANS) Regular toilets will be replaced by eco-friendly bio-toilets for disposing human waste at all stations of the Konkan Railway (KR),…
Radioactive element found in groundwater near Japan n-plant
byTokyo, June 19 (IANS) High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater near the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan,…