Nearly 3.1 million trees were cut down for public infrastructure projects across India in 2020-21, Union minister Bhupender Yadav told Lok Sabha. “The permission for tree felling is accorded by the respective state governments/union territory administrations under the provisions of various Acts, rules, guidelines and directions of courts. However, during 2020-21, proposals involving 30,97,721 trees …

Petrol and diesel prices were on Tuesday hiked by 80 paise a litre while domestic cooking gas prices were increased by Rs 50 per cylinder, ending an over four-and-half month election-related hiatus in rate revision. Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 96.21 per litre as against Rs 95.41 previously while diesel rates have gone up from Rs 86.67 per …

In March 2019, the first climate strike took place in Delhi with over 400 school children bunked school and gather at Central Park in Connaught Place, demanding their right to breathe. The protest was part of the strike by school kids across the globe as part of the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ started in 2018 by Greta Thunberg. And since then, they …

Amid the war triggered by the Russian invasion, Ukraine is also facing a worsening health crisis. Doctors and experts fear a surge not only in COVID cases but also polio, HIV, cholera, and measles. Kate White, an emergency program manager for Doctors Without Borders, told CNN that Ukraine already had low vaccination rates against those diseases. “In terms of what …

Labh Singh Ugoke, an Aam Aadmi Party candidate who sent the state politics into a tizzy by defeating Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, will remember his humble roots, courtesy of his mother. Labh Singh has emerged as the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) giant slayer by defeating the Congress’ CM candidate by a comprehensive margin of 37,558 votes.  A day after …

An Indian student was killed on Tuesday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city that is being battered by heavy shelling by Russian forces. The student has been identified as Naveen Shekhararappa Gyanagoudar, a native of Haveri district in Karnataka. He was a student of Kharkiv National Medical University.  According to reports, Naveen was heading towards …

Amid the hijab row in Karnataka’s schools and colleges, a Congress MLA in the state claimed that the rate is highest in India because some women don’t wear hijab. “Hijab means ‘parda’ (veil) in Islam. It is for hiding the beauty of girls when they come of age. Today you can see that the rape rate is the highest in …

India is slowly doing away with quarantine provisions for international arrivals in the country. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has released detailed guidelines for international arrivals at airports and seaports in the country. Now international passengers arriving at the IGI Airport will not require to undergo mandatory weeklong quarantine as new Covid-19 guidelines of the Ministry of Health …

Residents of Khampur village in Delhi’s Alipur are keeping a strict vigil on a 120-year-old ‘sacred’ banyan tree in the area after it was trimmed by unidentified people while they were asleep. Locals of the village said they have an emotional attachment with the tree and worship it during festivals while some of them blamed the local land mafia for …

The Cordelia cruise ship, where 66 of them over 2,000 people on board tested positive for coronavirus, has been sent back to Mumbai from Goa with all the passengers after some of the infected persons refused to get admitted to a medical facility in the coastal state, an official from a shipping agency said on Tuesday. The infected passengers would …