Jakarta: An earthquake measuring 6.2-magnitude hit Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday morning, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
New Delhi/IBNS: A cold wave, predicted to hit Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) next week, will bring down the temperatures to as low as 3 degrees Celcius.
Beijing: China, a nation which has been witnessing a spike in cases since it shifted from the Zero COVID policy, has recorded almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths between Dec 8 and Jan 12, media reports said on Saturday.
New York: Water can be a “dealmaker” for stability and cooperation as well as for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, speakers from the co-hosts of the upcoming UN 2023 Water Conference said on Friday.
Jakarta: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 rocked off Indonesia's western province of Bengkulu on Saturday morning, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
Kangra:An earthquake measuring 2.8 on the Richter Scale hit Kangra valley on Saturday and lasted for a few seconds.
Nearly 700 buildings in Joshimath, a culturally and historically important holy town in Uttarakhand, have developed cracks. Local authorities are evacuating residents. Joshimath is ecologically fragile as it is built on an ancient landslide site. It always had a low bearing capacity. The unplanned construction of dams, tunnels, and roads has led to the current problem. Mongabay India correspondents Satyam Kumar and Shailesh Shrivastava report
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it recommends 10 days of isolation for people with COVID-19 symptoms and five days for people without symptoms.
New York: The hardship being felt across the Horn of Africa by the worst drought in 40 years has left many women weak and malnourished. The UN agency dedicated to women’s sexual and reproductive health, UNPA, is helping save mothers’ lives in Kenya, through the donation of a simple but effective way of accessing hard-to-reach areas - a motorbike, to enable safe emergency deliveries in hospital.
New York: The UN weather agency, WMO, said on Thursday that 2022 was the fifth or sixth warmest year on record, adding to deep concerns that the likelihood of breaching the 1.5 degree Celsius limit of the Paris Agreement “is increasing with time”.
New York: In Uganda, a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus has been stopped in its tracks and declared officially over, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
New York: Although virus sequencing is vital to detect and track new variants in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing this information must be stepped up globally, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in Geneva.
Beijing: A study by Peking University has revealed that some 900 million people in China have been infected with the coronavirus as of 11 January, media reports said.
Shimla: Tourist resort Manali Dalhousie, Khajjair, Narkanda and Kufri received major spell of snowfall as high reaches recorded moderate to heavy snowfall and down stream lashed windshowers.
New Delhi/UNI: As the national capital received light rain, the people of the city got some respite from the biting cold, as the minimum temperature settled at 9.8 degrees, two notches below normal.
New Delhi/IBNS: As temperatures in north India got a little better this week, experts suggested that they can still go down with a dip as low as -4 degrees Celsius next week.
New Delhi/IBNS: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said two cough syrups made by Noida-based company Marion Biotech should not be administered to children.
Moscow: The Soyuz MS-23 rescue spacecraft will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) via unmanned mode on February 20, the Soyuz MS-22 with a damaged cooling system will return to Earth without a crew, Russian state space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
Mumbai: Sun Pharma on Wednesday said it has launched a novel anti-cancer drug, Palbociclib, in India to treat advanced breast cancer, the most common cancer among women in the country.
When Amina Zia in Pakistan lost her husband to COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, she descended further into depression.
New Delhi/UNI: The air quality in the national capital plunged into the severe category for the third consecutive day on Wednesday morning.
Shimla: India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow alert as it warned against rain or snowfall in Himachal Pradesh from 11 to 13 January on Tuesday.
New Delhi/IBNS: Joshimath and its surrounding areas have been sinking at the rate of 6.5 cm or 2.5 inches per year, a two-year study by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing has revealed.
A recent bird count in the freshwater lake Deepor Beel has shown there has been a significant rise in the number and species of birds in a year’s time.
New York: A child or young person died every 4.4 seconds in 2021, and millions more could lose their lives by 2030 unless all women and children have access to adequate healthcare, two UN reports published on Thursday have revealed.
Buenos Aires: The Argentine Healthcare Ministry reported on Tuesday the second lethal case of mpox (previously known as monkeypox) in the country.
Beijing: Chinese authorities have stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions imposed on Chinese travellers.
New York: The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that it will co-host the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in London, on 15 March.
Kolkata: It's bone-chilling cold in the entire state, although the mercury has risen slightly in 24 hours, the overall winter mood remains.
New York: The Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, a UN-backed panel of experts said on Monday.
