At least three civilians were feared dead and some others reported missing by the local villagers after a massive cloudburst hit the crucial patch of Doda-Kishtwar highway 1B near Baggar late Wednesday evening.
Eyewitness reports said a huge volume of mudslides triggered after the cloudburst swept away two roadside eateries and five to six small temporary structures near Baggar village, 15 km f
With the postponement of a crucial meeting of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) which was to deliberate on field trials of genetically modified seeds, the decision on their commercial release may be delayed further, possibly until the next kharif season.
The proposed 110th meeting of GEAC, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed for July 6.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has sought clarification from Jindal Ecopolis, the waste management company setting up a waste-to-energy plant at Okhla, saying that it would not be permitted to operate if the company fails to provide technical details about pollution control at the incineration plant.
It may be noted that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has already made it clear that t
Four major regions of Britain are to be officially declared drought-hit this week as lack of rainfall prompts restrictions on water supply and images of parched earth appear across the news media.
Declaring the four affected regions of Wales, the Southwest, the Midlands and East Anglia as drought-hit will enable the Government and water companies to invoke extra controls over water supplies.
A vast cloud of ash spewing from a Chilean volcano disrupted air travel on Wednesday across much of South America, as heavy rains around the eruption site prompted fears of mudslides.
Air traffic was sharply curtailed on the continent as the ash cloud drifted over Argentina, and into Brazil.
Health authorities groped in the dark in search of the source of the E coli infection with suspicions about bean sprouts being a potential carrier yet to be substantiated, as the death toll in Germany
India's food inflation for the week ended May 28 rose sharply by almost a percentage to 9.01 percent as prices of essential items like fruits, meat, milk and onions increased, official data showed Thursday.
Food inflation had dipped to 8.06 percent the week before.
India Thursday successfully test fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi II missile from a military base in Orissa, defence ministry sources said.
The surface-to-surface missile with a range of 350 km was fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore, about 230 km from here.
Prithvi is India's first indigenously built ballistic missile.
Extra-toasty summers are going to be a mainstay if greenhouse gas levels continue to rise and tropical regions may see an irreversible bump in temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years, a new study has warned.
In the study to be published in the journal Climate Change, researchers at the Stanford University claimed that many tropical regions in Africa, Asia and South America could see
