New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India has witnessed driest weather conditions since 1901 in August this year, a senior meteorologist said, adding it was a clear result of the intensifying El Nino conditions.
Gandhinagar, Aug 30 (IANS) Prof Pankaj Khanna, a faculty member in Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), has been handpicked as the sedimentologist from India to join an offshore research expedition.
Ottawa, Aug 30 (IANS) Canadian farmers are projected to produce less wheat, canola, barley and oats in 2023, according to recent yield model estimates using satellite imagery and agroclimatic data, the national statistical agency said.
New York, Aug 30 (IANS) Tropical Storm Idalia has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it was heading toward the Gulf Coast in the US state of Florida, forcing an emergency declaration, mass evacuations and flight cancellations as it is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning.
Chennai, Aug 29 (IANS) The erratic monsoon, which is affecting sowing, and global developments will keep the food inflation at elevated levels and would also hit the demand in rural India owing to lower income and inflation, said CARE Ratings in a report.
Nagpur, Aug 29 (IANS) A big cat family comprising a mother leopard and her two cubs were electrocuted by live wires laid to kill wild boars in the forests of Maharashtra's Gondia district, officials said here on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) As global pollution edged upward in 2021, so did its burden on human health, new data from the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) said on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Decarbonisation is gaining currency though the benefits of this will be available only decades later, so we have to learn to survive and do well in the hot new world, ITC Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Sanjiv Puri said on Sunday.
Shimla, Aug 27 (IANS) Horrifying visuals showing buildings and bridges collapsing like pack of cards in the blink of an eye in Himachal Pradesh with torrential rains have battered the hilly state, causing 376 deaths since the onset of the monsoons, locals believe -- nature doesn't kill, human-induced activities do.
Bengaluru, Aug 26 (IANS) Even as major political parties in Karnataka are vying with each other to get political mileage out of the present Cauvery dispute following the failure of Monsoon rains ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the issue is not likely to affect the electoral politics of the state, according to experts.
