Reading Time: < 1 minute Chennai, May 30 (IANS) A 57-year-old man, who fell down from his two-wheeler when the rogue elephant ‘Arikomban’ attacked the vehicle, passed away on Tuesday. The deceased is identified as Palraj, a resident of Cumbum town. Tamil Nadu Forest Minister M. Mathiventhan and Rural Development Minister I. Periyaswamy had on Sunday visited Palraj at Theni […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Srinagar, May 30 (IANS) The weather was inclement in J&K during the last 24 hours as the MeT office said on Tuesday that a predominantly cloudy sky with rain and thunder is likely to prevail for the next 24 hours. “Light to moderate rain/thunder/lightning with possibility of hailstorm and gusty winds at a few places […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Amroha/Pilibhit (UP), May 30 (IANS) An Indian Army soldier was killed while his wife and two children were critically injured when a stray bull hit their two-wheeler on the Hasanpur Atrasi road near Bavankhedi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha district. The incident happened on Monday. The soldier, Ankit Kumar, 28, was posted at 507 ASC […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Shimla, May 30 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government is planning to start water sports and plying of shikaras at Maharana Pratap Sagar, a paradise of winter migratory birds, particularly the Siberian cranes, popular as man-made Pong Dam reservoir on the Beas river in the picturesque Kangra Valley. Flying thousands of miles from their native habitat […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lakhimpur Kheri, May 30 (IANS) A 50-year-old farmer was attacked and killed by a tiger in Belrayan range of the Dudhwa buffer zone. The farmer had gone to check on his sugarcane crop on Sunday and had been missing since then. Dudhwa buffer zone deputy director Sundaresh said that on Monday evening, the villagers recovered […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes By Praveen DwivediBhopal, May 29 (IANS) A few African cheetahs transloacted to the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh will be relocated to the Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary in Mandsaur and Neemach districts of the state by November this year. Earlier, it was said that the Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan will be […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has jailed two Public Works Department (PWD) employees for disobeying orders concerning the protection of trees issued by it and the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The court was hearing a contempt plea by New Delhi Nature Society against the two officers – the Engineer-in-Chief and the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Increasing global climate change – including warmer waters, rising sea levels and shrinking ice sheets – can give rise to deadly tsunamis from Antarctica, warns a new study. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, is based on analysis of past underwater landslides in Antarctica. An international team of […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jammu, May 29 (IANS) The Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, on Monday inaugurated the Jambu Zoo at Nagrota in Jammu district. “This much-awaited addition to the tourist destinations of J&K — spread over an area spanning 70 hactres — was taken up under the Languishing Project, and it shall attract both […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Rainfall is expected in Delhi as clouds have surrounded the city. The India Meteorological Department’s Regional Forecasting Centre predicts partly cloudy skies and intermittent rainfall, which will help keep temperatures in check. Heatwave conditions are not expected to return for the next five to six days. On Monday, the Safdarjung […]
