Kolkata, An alert has been issued in West Bengal's Malda district, the state's most flood-prone region, following heavy rainfall in the last few days, an official said Wednesday...more>>
Tokyo, In a first, biologists have identified a key photoreceptor cell deep inside the brain of birds which takes the role of eyes in humans by directly responding to light and ...more>>
New Delhi, Against the backdrop of over 190 countries pledging emission cuts for the post-2020 period, the new climate deals must ensure developing countries are granted the req...more>>
Washington, In what could alter the textbooks, researchers have declassified dinosaurs as being the great-great-grandparents of birds.
After re-examining a sparrow-sized foss...more>>
New Delhi, It was a sunny Thursday morning in Delhi with a minimum temperature of 30.9 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's average. The Met Office has forecast a p...more>>
New York, From its roughly 52-million-year-old fossil remains, researchers have identified a two-inch-long hedgehog species, Silvacola acares, which could be the tiniest hedgeho...more>>
Though the developed country retains restricted independence and known for its World War II history nevertheless, the federal Republic of Germany is one of the most urbanized...more>>
New Delhi, A high-level committee will assess pollution on Goa beaches, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said Tuesday.
Responding to a calling attention motion in the R...more>>
Washington, A study led by Indian-origin researcher Rajan Chakrabarty has found a previously unrecognised form of soot particle, identified by the authors as "superaggregates", ...more>>
New Delhi, India's overall forest cover has increased by 5,871 sq km since 2011 and the maximum rise has been witnessed in West Bengal (3,810 sq km) followed by Odisha (1,444 sq...more>>