13 districts submerged; situation improves in north Bengal; 14 trains cancelled PTI: The flood situation continued to be grim in Bihar and Assam on Tuesday while a break in the rains offered respite f ...

Civic bodies release report; blame rise in numbers on delay in notification of new zone boundaries Around 251 cases of dengue, 174 cases of chikungunya and 193 cases of malaria have been reported in D ...

A summer ‘vortex’ of cold air over the Karakoram, a large mountain range spanning the borders of India, Pakistan and China, is causing the glaciers in the region to grow in spite of global warming, sc ...

NEW DELHI: In a bid to keep the Yamuna clean, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation got a waste-processing machine installed at Nigambodh Ghat, which is now preventing up to 5 tonnes of flower waste f ...

Researchers find that economic, emissions and population trends point to very small chance Earth will avoid warming more than 2C by century’s end There is only a 5% chance that the Earth will avoid wa ...

Special Correspondent No tankers with drinking water had to be sent to as many as 94 villages in Rajasthan The Rajasthan government's flagship water conservation programme – Jal Swavalamban Abhiyan (J ...

AHMEDABAD: A rain-wrought terror gripped Amdavadis on Thursday, pushing the already monsoon-sodden city into a self-imposed curfew. Many Amdavadis preferred to stay indoors and avoid getting stuck in ...

Reiterating India’s commitment to tackling climate change, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said it can do more if finance and other support are ensured. The Minister said India ha ...

NABARD has launched a water campaign to cover around one lakh villages in vulnerable and water-stressed areas where groundwater is over exploited, Bankers’ Institute of Rural Development joint directo ...