Attending a company conference call while making white sauce pasta for your spouse or getting a head massage while you send an email updating your supervisor?

lifestyle

Updated on May 09, 2020 03:31 PM IST

Satellite images show North Korea tried out rocket engine in ‘very important’ test: Experts

Satellite imagery captured before and after North Korea conducted what it called a “very important” test at its missile launch site suggested it had tested a rocket engine

world news

Published on Dec 09, 2019 02:21 PM IST

Punjab to use optical satellite images for clearer picture on farm fires

chandigarh news

Updated on Nov 15, 2019 07:59 AM IST

Trump suggests Iranian role in Saudi oilfield attacks

Donald Trump has also said he has ordered for the release of crude from America’s strategic reserves to keep world markets “well supplied”.

world news

Published on Sep 16, 2019 07:54 PM IST

A 3D map of India likely in two years

The Survey of India is working on digitally mapping the country over the next two years.(Photo by Rahul Raut/HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Sep 14, 2019 06:10 AM IST

Expansion of gaushala in Aravallis halted

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and the Haryana State Pollution Control (HSPCB) have instructed the construction work to expand a gaushala in the Aravallis, near Ghata village, be halted.

gurugram news

Updated on Sep 13, 2019 07:42 PM IST

Satellite photos show burning Iran space center launch pad

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows a fire at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Satellite images released Thursday show the smoldering remains of a rocket at a Iran space center that was to conduct a U.S.-criticized satellite launch. (Satellite image ©2019 Maxar Technologies via AP)

world news

Updated on Aug 30, 2019 09:16 AM IST

Did wetland destruction cause the floods in Navi Mumbai?

A reclaimed wetland near the Navi Mumbai airport.

mumbai news

Published on Jul 20, 2019 01:11 AM IST

Drizzle or downpour? They have the answer: The people who predict the monsoon

The Met centre at Thiruvananthapuram is abuzz before the arrival of the monsoon every year.

lifestyle

Updated on Jun 29, 2019 06:52 PM IST

Panel report on illegal colonies next month; will discuss development fee, cut-off date

The Centre-appointed committee is all set to finalise its recommendations on the process to give ownership rights to residents of 1,797 unauthorised colonies in Delhi.

delhi news

Published on May 28, 2019 05:09 AM IST

Satellite images to fix boundaries of unauthorised colonies in Delhi

The Centre-appointed committee mandated to recommend the process of giving ownership rights to residents of 1,797 unauthorised colonies is considering using satellite images to fix the boundaries of these colonies.

delhi news

Updated on Apr 17, 2019 07:29 AM IST

Of 600 water bodies identified in GMDA survey, 100 fit for revival

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), earlier this month, completed a water security survey with the aim to improve groundwater levels through restoration of natural water bodies.

gurugram news

Published on Apr 06, 2019 03:35 AM IST

North Korea rebuilds part of missile site it promised Trump to dismantle

The news comes days after a second summit on denuclearisation between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down.

world news

Updated on Mar 06, 2019 10:21 AM IST

The SC’s February 13 order on FRA was consistent with its earlier stand

On February 13, the Supreme Court asked 17 state governments to evict an estimated one million tribal and other households living in forests after their claims of the right to live in forests were rejected under The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA). On February 28, the SC ordered a stay of its order.

analysis

Updated on Feb 28, 2019 08:00 PM IST

Mumbai Metro-3: Supreme Court seeks reply for green damage inside Aarey Colony

The petitioners had filed a special leave petition in Supreme Court (SC) against the Bombay high court (HC) order of justices SC Dharmadhikari and PD Naik, in which the HC refused to declare Aarey a forest

mumbai news

Updated on Dec 07, 2018 11:34 PM IST

Your space: ‘Cantonments provide security, greenery’

The busy Mahatma Gandhi road comes under Pune cantonment area. Residents feel that citizens should be proud of the cantonment areas. Besides, Southern Command is the most prestigious institute of the country.

pune news

Updated on Dec 02, 2018 04:47 PM IST

Uran fishermen move HC to save mangroves from construction

Wetlands in Nerul are under threat from urbanisation

mumbai news

Updated on Nov 22, 2018 12:44 AM IST

Air pollution: Reactive, band-aid solutions will not solve the problem

Farmers who burn crop residue in northern India do so knowingly and because they don’t have an alternate economical and viable option. As the first inhalers of that choking smoke, much before it gets into any city dwellers’ lungs, they’re also early sufferers

analysis

Updated on Nov 01, 2018 05:49 PM IST

In 6 days, stubble burning cases see four-fold jump in Punjab

Despite ban, a farmer setting paddy stubble on fire in his fields at Mote Majra village in Kharar tehsil of Mohali in Monday.

others

Updated on Oct 30, 2018 10:52 AM IST

Punjab expects 70 percent drop in stubble fires this season: Official

So far in 2018, the state has recorded 1,212 cases of paddy stubble burning as against 3,141 and 6,733 in the corresponding periods in 2017 and 2016 respectively.

others

Updated on Oct 18, 2018 05:44 PM IST

Kerala floods: NASA’s before and after satellite images show scale of devastation

While the ‘before’ image was taken by the Landsat 8 satellite’s operational land imager on February 6, the ‘after’ one was clicked by the multispectral instrument on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite last Wednesday

india news

Updated on Aug 28, 2018 05:54 PM IST