4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (317+ words) CHANDIGARH: Due to increasing incidents of landslides during the monsoon season, a comprehensive study of the hillocks around the Bhakra dam is likely to be undertaken by Geological Survey of India (GSI) to assess rock strength, slope stability fault lines…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (181+ words) RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM: Authorities have launched a pilot project to construct a one-kilometre-long protection wall using geotube technology at Pedamainavanilanka in West Godavari to arrest severe coastal erosion that has steadily destroyed shoreline villages. The project at Pedamainavanilanka, known as PM Lanka,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (310+ words) CSIR-NIO has acquired 4 acres of land from the Andhra Pradesh government to develop the regional facility. The laboratory complex, which has a built-up area of approximately 4,000 sq. m, will focus on oceanographic research in the Bay of Bengal to assess…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (354+ words) PANAJI: Drilling of the first hot spring well, which will become the fuel for the country's maiden geothermal energy unit in the Puga Valley of Ladakh being developed by ONGC, will be completed by September, giving a major push to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (375+ words) 200 new automatic stations in 2026 to predict weather at hyper-local levels'The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: To enhance the precision of weather forecasts at a hyper-local level in metropolitan areas, the Union Government has announced the deployment of 200 Automatic Weather Stations…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (335+ words) Andhra Pradesh records over 26% groundwater samples with high RSC levels'The New Indian Express VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh has recorded 26.87 per cent of groundwater samples with Residual Sodium Carbonate (RSC) levels above the permissible limit of 2.5 meq/L (milliequivalents per liter), according…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (152+ words) BHUBANESWAR : Steel and Mines minister Bibhuti Bhushan Jena on Friday presented Odisha's reform-driven approach to mineral governance at the National Mineral Chintan Shivir-2026 in Gujarat's Gandhinagar. He informed that since assuming charge, the state has successfully auctioned eight major mineral…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (270+ words) NEW DELHI: A latest report by the Central Ground Water Board has pointed out worrying concerns in Delhi's groundwater. As per the report, high levels of uranium were found in many states with around 13-15% of samples from Delhi having uranium…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (719+ words) CHANDIGARH: A staggering 62.50 per cent of groundwater samples from Punjab have uranium levels above the safety threshold limit, the highest contamination intensity ever recorded in the country, followed by Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. This fact was revealed in…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (917+ words) It wasn't a comfortable process for the tens of thousands of delegates trying to hash out progress on climate change on the edge of the Amazon in Bel'm, Brazil. I experienced the challenges of the United Nations COP30 climate talks firsthand....