India loses 3.1 billion units of electricity due to transmission congestion in 2014-15
Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has recorded a loss of 3.1 billion units of electricity in 2014-15. Facebook Comments Box
Five Indian middle school girls develop android app, win $10,000 at Technovation 2015
Five middle school girls from Bengluru have grabbed an award worth $10,000 at the Technovation World Pitch Challenge 2015 held at San Francisco in the USA last week. The event is one of the worlds most reputed technology competition. Facebook Comments Box
Quake prone Himachal isn’t safe with large hydropower projects: Study
After Nepal quake and Kinnaur disaster, large hydropower projects with huge dams in western Himalayas have come to limelight Facebook Comments Box
Indian photographer wins Environmental Photographer of the Year 2015 contest
Uttam Kamati, an amateur Indian photographer and filmmaker, won the prestigious Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition 2015 Facebook Comments Box
Delhi air poisoned with most toxic pollutant PM1 – Researchers
A research by scientists at a Delhi based independent agency SAFAR revealed that Delhi isn’t just world’s most polluted city, but its air is also contaminated by lethal class of pollutant particles in vehicular emissions – PM1 particles – the thinnest class of pollutant particles.
In first case of live stranding in India, a ‘blue whale’ dies after washed ashore
On Wednesday, a 42-feet female blue whale washed up on a beach in Aligaug, Maharashtra. Facebook Comments Box
Monsoon kills 45 in Gujarat, J&K on flood alert : Pictures
Indian state Gujarat has witnessed continuous heavy rains as monsoon knocked at India’s doors. The condition is so bad in Saurashtra and Rajkot regions that, so far, 45 people have died either due to house collapse or drowning. Amreli district reported 36 deaths on Wednesday,
NGT’s order to ban 10-years old diesel vehicles in Delhi is working, but still not enough
To counter alarming rise in vehicular pollution in Delhi, National Green Tribunal had rebuked the government for their failure to plan and implement any measures against it. NGT had ordered that no diesel vehicle over 10 year old shall ply on roads. It has started
How real yoga is radically different from our health-obsessed versions: Pictures
The first International Yoga Day was observed on June 21. The government of India spent a huge amount money for the promotion of the event. A lot of TV commercials and text messages from the Ministry of AYUSH had begun to appear a week before
Heartbreaking: Leopard strays into Indian village, brutally beaten to death, lynched
Villagers in Tetuara village of Purulia district in West Bengal beat a leopard to death after it strayed into the village. There has never been any leopard attack or sighting near the village. In panic the villagers ran helter-skelter. People chased the leopard and locked