Sydney,  As record rainfall sweeps across Australia's eastern coast, flash flooding and severe thunderstorms have prompted severe warning after a third loss of life.

In the early hours of Friday morning, police uncovered the body of a man who went missing in his vehicle in floodwaters on the Central

New Delhi,  With a target to remove up to 5,00,000 ocean-bound plastic bags in Goa and to take global action beyond ambition to restore ocean health, the ninth annual World Ocean Summit to debate developments in plastics, aquaculture, shipping, fishing, energy and tourism will run from March 1 to 4.

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Canberra,  A high risk cyclone warning has been issued for Australia's Northern Territory (NT).

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Thursday night upgraded the cyclone threat for Saturday and Sunday from "moderate" to "high".

It said a tropical low system in the Timor Sea

Jakarta,  At least four people were killed and more than 20 wounded as a revised 6.1 magnitude quake destroyed over 10,000 buildings and houses in Indonesia's western province of West Sumatra on Friday, a local official said.

Earlier the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency issued a report

New Delhi,  Pakistan's objections to the hydro-power projects Pakal Dul, Lower Kalnai and Kiru in Jammu and Kashmir are likely to figure in the agenda at the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission between March 1 and 3 in Pakistan this year.

To be held at Islamabad, this will be the 117th m

New Delhi, It is not just the road widening for Char Dham Yatra project that has earned flak for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

In Telangana, a special committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recommended re-alignment of a 4-lane road that was originally planned to cut right across a wa

New Delhi, Even as the Indian team that went to Namibia for initiating the process for bringing cheetahs to India has returned, it may still be months before the African wild cat whose Indian counterpart has been extinct since last seven decades can be introduced.

It was February 17, after a delay of over two year

New Delhi, The organisers of the 'Mobile World Congress 2022' (MWC 2022) have announced to ban some Russian companies from exhibiting at the conference in Barcelona, Spain, that is scheduled to kick off from February 28.

Russia's participation at the 'MWC 2022' is being restricted by the organi

New Delhi,  Twitter on Saturday announced to pause ads and recommendations in Russia and Ukraine to safeguard users from misinformation, as it monitors risks associated with the Russia-Ukraine war.

The company said it is proactively reviewing Tweets to detect platform manipulation and taking enforcement actio

New Delhi, Hit by partial restrictions, Meta (formerly Facebook) on Saturday said it is prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetising on its platform anywhere in the world.

The additional steps in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine came after the country began to "partially restrict