World Desertification Day: ‘More than 12 breaches in Aravalli, Thar dust blowing across North India
If the Aravallis disappear, North India could gradually turn into a desert, environmentalists warned on World Desertification Day on Wednesday.
If the Aravallis disappear, North India could gradually turn into a desert, environmentalists warned on World Desertification Day on Wednesday.
Work is set to resume on the much-awaited 422 MW Kishau Hydropower project after an eight-year deadlock was broken.
Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday reviewed the National Cyber Crime Helpline 1930 at a high-level meeting in the national capital and directed officials to make the system even better.
The rebellion by six MPs of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena is not only a betrayal of Uddhav Thackeray and his Shiv Sena, but also an attack against the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) opposition, Maharashtra State Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal said here on Wednesday.
Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday said the police will constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the complaint that Youth Congress workers were beaten up on an Indigo flight by CPM leader EP Jayarajan.
Meanwhile, a lower court has rejected the family's plea requesting the second autopsy. However, the court directed the SHO to preserve the body.
Independent Rajasthan MLA Ravindra Singh Bhati's act of sprinkling petrol while leading a dharna of Giral Lignite Mines workers in Barmer on Tuesday evening caused ripples in the state politics and administration.
The All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) organised a shutdown of medical stores on Wednesday to protest against the growing online sale of medicines and the lack of stricter regulations governing e-pharmacy platforms.
Six Chardham devotees returning from Badrinath Shrine had a narrow escape on Wednesday when the helicopter they were on board had to make an emergency landing on a farmland due to a technical snag.
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor on Wednesday called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh to discuss expanding bilateral collaborations in skilling, investment, knowledge exchange and industry-led partnerships across domains in biotechnology, quantum technologies, space, atomic energy and nuclear medicine.
