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Varanasi: The seventh meeting of the reconstituted expert committee (EC), Climate Change Programme (CCP), Climate Change & Clean Energy (C3E) of depar.

Glacial lake floods, like the one in Sikkim, could increase due to global warming. These lakes must be monitored, risk-management systems developed

A pistol training and firing practice session was conducted for the first time for women home guard volunteers in the State from October 4 to 15 at the Central Training Institute in Dehradun’s Thano. The additional chief secretary Radha Raturi on Monday distributed training certificates to

The State is likely to experience rain and snowfall in various places during a three-day period starting on Sunday. The temperatures are expected to drop by a few degrees after October 18. The State meteorological centre has issued a yellow warning (watch) regarding the possibility of thunderstorms

Mangaluru: Friends For Poor Charitable Trust will launch a free ambulance service dedicated to poor bedridden dialysis patients in Mangaluru taluk nex.

The Reliance Industries chairman was accompanied by Radhika Merchant, his youngest son Anant Ambani’s fiancé

The CEA this week released guidelines for slope stability in hydropower projects, and had earlier set up a panel to look into the technical problems and resultant cost overruns in such projects.

The disaster was far more serious: a glacial lake in Sikkim had burst, and its surging waters had washed away dams in the Teesta basin.

Despite repeated warnings, the increasing risks of glacial lake outbursts are not factored in while building hydel projects. Now most Himalayan dams risk failure amid rising weather extremes due to warming, say experts

Coimbatore: Sarabhai Kalam theatre, a 6,000sqft conference cum event facility with a capacity to seat 450 people, was inaugurated at the Kumaraguru In.