A new study has suggested that use of ozone-tolerant cultivars can enhance the food security of India. University of Eastern study highlighted the current status of ozone research in the Indo-Gangetic
A new NASA joint project will provide timely weather, climate and other Earth related data to five countries in Southeast Asia, enabling them to better address issues of natural resource and disaster management.
All big hospitals, shopping centres, and theatres in Saket on Tuesday came under the scanner of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which asked the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to issue a challan
Dengue has started tightening its grip around Punjab with as many as 296 confirmed and 1,108 suspected cases surfacing in different parts of the state. The first suspected ‘dengue-related’ death of
A survey conducted by the district malaria authorities from August 19 to 30 has found the dengue larvae breeding in over 16,000 spots in the city. The survey team visited over 64,900 places in the city
Three years and more than 100 amendments later, the revised Master Plan for Delhi 2021 (MPD-2021) is nearly ready. While the Centre will soon notify provisions for transit-oriented development (TOD) and
This Ganpati festival citizens will be able to bring their favourite deity in cleaner environment. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will ensure that city remain clean and neat. All the 24 wards
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), in a statement on Tuesday said that about six lakh consumers availed benefit of free water scheme in the second round of billing as people have started to voluntarily install
- Manipur district under curfew Imphal: Seven persons have been killed in Churachandpur district since last night while protesting against amendment to the Manipur land law, prompting the administration
The cabinet today approved the much-awaited Jharkhand Food Processing Policy-2015 and Jharkhand Industrial Park Policy-2015 to provide an impetus to the state's growth. The cabinet also approved the
<p>Interannual variation of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) is linked to El Niño-Southern oscillation (ENSO) as well as the Equatorial Indian Ocean oscillation (EQUINOO) with the link with
Punjab Agriculture Department on Tuesday asked the State’s farmers to use pesticides to control damage to the standing cotton crop that has been hit by whitefly attack. “Due to unseasonal rains this
As the pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) leaked near Bauriapalanda, hundreds of villagers, including children and women collected diesel from river water. Sources said there are
बनारसी हो या मगही, अब हर पान न केवल सबकी जुबान लाल करेगा बल्कि खेती को नया जीवन भी देगा। राष्ट्रीय कृषि विकास योजना से पान की खेती के लिए किसानों को 50 फीसद सब्सिडी मिलेगी। दो दिन पहले उद्यान विभाग को
नई दिल्ली । ASOLA वन्य जीव अभयारण्य के समीप चल रहीं परियोजनाओं पर सख्त रुख अपनाते हुए नेशनल ग्रीन ट्रिब्यूनल (एनजीटी) ने आज केंद्र समेत तीन राज्य सरकारों को नोटिस जारी करते हुए उनसे जवाब मांगा है। वरिष्ठ
Notwithstanding increasing number of dengue cases in the State capital, the district medical and health department appears in a non-active mode. On Tuesday eight new cases of the disease were reported
US President Barack Obama viewed Alaska’s Exit Glacier, in a bid to drive home the impact climate change is already having on America. Obama visited the Kenai Fjords National Park in southern Alaska
<p>Human-induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns. Historic climate change is known to have caused shifts in the geographic ranges
<p>Proxy records of temperature from the Atlantic clearly show that the Younger Dryas was an abrupt climate change event during the last deglaciation, but records of hydroclimate are underutilized in defining
<p>Plant biodiversity is often correlated with ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about the relative and combined effects of above- and belowground biodiversity on
