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In a bid to promote Uttar Pradesh as an international bird watching destination, the state forest department, in collaboration with FICCI, will hold a three-day international festival on birds at the National Chambal Sanctuary (NCS) in Agra, an official said. The festival starts on December 4 and will end on December 6. As many as 25 top international bird experts …

Use of polyethene across Uttar Pradesh may be banned by this year end, an official said on Thursday. The Allahabad High Court (HC) has directed the state government to ban the use of polyethene across the state by December 31. Responding to the rap by the court with regard to delay in baning polythene sheets and bags, the government informed …

Delhi has very high concentrations of respirable particulate matter (PM), even crossing the safety limits prescribed by the World Health Organization. While for some reason, the highest PM is routinely reported from some areas in the east of the city, no place is safe in the Delhi National Capital Region. A rather startling fact which studies bear out is: Indoor …

All of us want to do so many things in life, but circumstances, responsibilities or plain laziness gets the better of us. However, there are some people who go out of their way, even juggle multiple jobs, to keep their passion going. Meet Roshni Mukherjee, an inspiring women who did just that. When she had to take up a job …

A new study has suggested that though women live longer, men live healthier. The King’s College London study found that, whilst women were far more likely to reach 100 years than men, males tended to be healthier and had fewer diagnosed chronic illnesses compared to women. The study suggested a 50 per cent increase in the number of females reaching …

File photo of Nek Chand – a self-taught artist famed for building Rock Garden in Chandigarh, an 18-acre spread of sculptures made using scrap and rocks – in his office in the garden. | File photo of Nek Chand showing how to create sculptures to a tourist at Rock Garden in Chandigarh | Padma Shri Nek Chand, creator and director …