In the run-up to next month’s Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Brazil, the UN Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a hard look at how an extremely dynamic region can build rural res

Could the unusually heavy rain the state has received so far this summer have anything to do with changes in the Indian Ocean triggered by the recent earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia?

Dr. C.K Raja

India on Thursday predicted a normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, bringing relief to millions of farmers who depend on good rains for a bumper harvest.

"It will be a normal monsoon this y

It was a warmer March for Chennai this year. The actual temperature was 1°C above normal and the Met office said westerly winds that blew for about 15 days in March deferred the onset of the cooling s

The death toll in an avalanche in north Kashmir has risen to three, an official said on Wednesday.

"Three bodies have been recovered from under the avalanche debris in Badwan village of Gurez tehsil.

Some days ago, on a wind-swept, desolate mountainside in Jammu and Kashmir's Kargil district, infra-red cameras captured a shape moving about in the cold winter night. To the naked, untrained eye, it

A deadly string of tornadoes cut a swath of destruction across the US midwest, killing at least 11 people and threatening scores more as a massive storm pushed eastward early Thursday.

Homes were sma

Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday morning began an operation to rescue 10 civilians believed to be trapped in an avalanche in the north Kashmir Sonamarg hill station.

Aamir Ali, officer on spec

Nine civilians trapped in avalanche-hit Sonamarg area of Kashmir for three days were on Friday rescued by local authorities assisted by Army even as hopes of finding alive three armymen missing in

Six people were on Saturday killed and four others injured in a landslide in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district.

The incident took place in Panthal area when the Srinagar- bound vehicle, carrying th