Air quality dips to ‘severe’ level in parts of Delhi

IANS | January 4, 2024 2:21 PM

New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Days after GRAP-III was lifted as the AQI slightly improved and entered into ‘very poor’ levels, the air quality in the national capital on Thursday afternoon again deteriorated with several monitoring stations entering into ‘severe’ category.

Namibian cheetah Aasha gives birth to three cubs at Kuno

IANS | January 3, 2024 6:46 PM

Bhopal, Jan 3 (IANS) The new year began with good news for Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh as the Namibian cheetah Aasha gave birth to three cubs on Wednesday. All three cubs are reported to be healthy.

Toilets are crumbling units in many villages of UP's Sitapur

Indal Kashyap | January 3, 2024 12:17 PM

Sitapur, Jan 3 (IANS/101 Reporters) In many villages in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district, residents prefer open defecation citing faulty construction, but the fact remains that they only supervised the toilet work using the money received in their bank accounts under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

2023 warmest year of all time for S. Korea

IANS | January 3, 2024 12:06 PM

Seoul, Jan 3 (IANS) The year 2023 was the warmest of all time for South Korea as global warming heated up the Korean Peninsula to reach the average temperature of 13.7 degrees Celsius last year, the state weather agency said on Wednesday.