Vistara will stop giving plastic water bottles on board its flights, in a bid to reduce plastic usage. The airline, which had earlier banned chewing of gutka on its flights, on Wednesday said it “plans
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday said it may have to import rice
Thiruvananthapuram: A team of experts deputed by Kerala government claimed to have detected leakages at three spots on the 113-year-old Mullaperiyar dam over which the state is locked in a dispute with Tamil Nadu.
Washington: Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India and the two Asian neighbours along with China are increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, two eminent US atomic experts have claimed.
New Delhi: The UPA government has listed the Resettlement and Rehabilitation bill and Land Acquisition Amendment bill for introduction in the winter session of Parliament starting on Thursday, a move sure to test its will to skirt around protests from Trinamool Congress.
New Delhi: Fifteen years after they were first notified, the environment ministry on Wednesday released new and tougher air quality norms under which residential and industrial areas will have the same standards.
Smuggled Over 200 Tiger Skins, 1000 Leopard Skins Abroad New Delhi: A day after a 39-year-old man suspected to be involved in tiger poaching and supplying animal parts to buyers in western countries was arrested in a joint operation between Gurgaon police and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), the police sought a six-day remand to unearth his network, which is spread across several states.
New Delhi: Slaughtering in the open or leaving carcasses exposed within a 15 km radius of an airport will now attract a hefty fine along with imprisonment of up to three months. Since these activities attract birds and have made bird hits quite common
New Delhi: After nearly two months, H1N1 influenza has staged a comeback in the Capital. With the dip in temperature, the city reported 76 fresh H1N1 influenza cases on Wednesday. Experts say that in the last one week the numbers have drastically gone up.
Rich Countries Demand One Binding Commitment For All Leave aside a binding agreement on climate change, the 190-country Copenhagen conference on December 7 is unlikely to throw up even a political statement of high-sounding sentiments on the need to save the planet
Kolkata: The prototypes of the first ever made-for-India car from Italian auto giant Fiat SpA will arrive in India in a year
