Extreme cold disrupts transporation in Sweden

IANS | January 5, 2024 11:38 AM

Stockholm, Jan 5 (IANS) Flights were grounded and train services disrupted due to extremely low temperatures across northern Sweden, while hundreds of motorists in the south had to be rescued after spending the night in their cars.

St. Petersburg's temperature hits 74-year low

IANS | January 5, 2024 8:12 AM

St. Petersburg, Jan 5 (IANS) Temperature in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, has dropped to -25.3 degrees Celsius, a frost that the city has not seen in 74 years, the city's chief weather forecaster Alexander Kolesov revealed on his Telegram channel.

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.