London, April 5 (IANS) The COVID-19 lockdowns globally have not only made air breathable or rivers clean but have also resulted in the way our Earth moves, as researchers now report a drop in seismic…
April 3, 2020 New Delhi: While the government tries to push up the supply of essential items like flour and cereals, farmers across the country say that due to the lockdown, machines used in agricultural…
Sydney, March 31 (IANS) Even the world’s coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first-ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 2019-20 summer period. Researchers from the Australian Antarctic…
March 13, 2020 Lucknow: Hailstorm, accompanied by strong winds lashed several parts of Uttar Pradesh on Friday causing wide spread damage to crops. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed all district magistrates to provide financial…
By Ranjit Devraj March 6, 2020 New Delhi: India is bidding to boost the manufacture, use and export of pesticides. However, it must also deal with the grim fact that the annual average of fatal…
March 1, 2020 Chandigarh:Inadequate and improper wheat storage and stocking fresh one with the infested in Punjab resulted in loss of wheat of Rs 607.57 crore in four years, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Addressing a Kisan Sammelan in Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign to set up 10,000 new farmer producer organisations (FPOs) across the country in…
Feb 25, 2020 AURANGABAD (MAHARASHTRA): Cotton farmers across India face multiple health hazards as they are exposed to harmful chemical pesticides while working on their fields and often they are not aware of or do…
Feb 23, 2020 New York: A lot of messages denying the effects of global warming might actually have been written by bots as new research from Brown University in the US found that about 25…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) The Centre has imposed a ban on two widely used insecticides in rice cultivation — Tricyclazole & Buprofezin — through the Insecticide Prohibition Order 2020 under Gazette notification. The central government,…
