One person died and eight others were rescued in flash floods in Udhampur and Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

China successfully launched its fifth manned spacecraft today afternoon, announced Zhang Youxia, chief commander of China's manned space programme.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India have signed an agreement for a $150 million loan that will help build a strong and reliable bulk power evacuation system in Uttarakhand.

KATHMANDU, 28 MAY: In a first of its kind initiative to clean Mount Everest, a joint army team of India and Nepal has collected over 4,000 kilogrammes of garbage that was polluting the slopes of th

The Supreme Court today set aside the Orissa High Court order which had quashed state government's petition to allot iron ore licence to South Korean steel major Posco in Khandadhar hills in Sunder

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) at a conference on 'Green Norms for Green Energy', organised today, brought together different stakeholders to discuss environmental impacts of these se

Amid growing environmental concerns over the river linking project, an NGO has come up with an “eco-friendly” method to connect the water bodies with grids so that states can share the resources ac

Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well.

A moderate 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Batan Islands region of the northern Philippines today, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

Over 3,000 trees, including those falling within the Narpuh Reserve Forest in eastern Meghalaya, might face the axe for the proposed widening of the National Highway 44 which connects the state to

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