The festive season, which usually starts from September, is when 35 per cent annual sales get transacted for most durables firms.
The national capital stood sixth in terms of air pollution in January, with cities like Muzzaffarpur in Bihar and Varanasi showing worse air qualities.
The Rediff labs team tried to correlate vehicle density with air pollution.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised the courage of bravery awards recipients, saying bravery should be a part of our nature.
The structures appear to be 'lumps' in the thin gas that lies between the stars in our galaxy, researchers said.
As the curtains came down on the odd-even pilot scheme on Friday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to the people of Delhi to continue observing the car rationing measures "voluntarily", which the government claimed has reduced air pollution by up to 25 per cent.
As many as 753 violators of the odd-even scheme were challaned on Monday, the 11th day of the car-rationing measure's implementation in New Delhi.
The news may come as a relief to the Delhi government, whose odd-even traffic rule is set to be rolled out from January 1.
Expressing concern over the alarming level of air pollution in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed concerned officials for banning 15-year-old diesel vehicles in the state capital among other measures to improve the situation.
Under the red alert, which is the highest in the four-tier emergency response system created in 2013, all schools have been ordered to be closed, and outdoor construction halted.
Air quality in the city of 16 million is usually bad in winter.
It is the lightest gold nugget ever created, researchers said.
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Charred bodies of Sarika and her three children, who died on the spot due to burn injuries were recovered on Wednesday.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 has been awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that "neutrinos have mass".
India's observatory will be the fourth in space, after the Hubble, Russia's Spektr R and Suzaku of Japan.
Celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking may have solved the 40-year-old information paradox -- which continues to puzzle scientists -- saying one could simply pop up in another universe after being sucked into a black hole, in a new theory about where lost information ends up.
This is not your average superhero TV show, says Paloma Sharma.
The discovery of the plane wreckage that washed up on Reunion Island, believed to be from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, may be consistent with a possible crash site in the South-East Indian Ocean, researchers say.
Rediff readers wrote emotionally about the passing of Dr Abdul Kalam while others sent in pictures of chance meetings with this humble physicist who was always available with an easy smile and some gentle words.
This is second time in a month when a packaged food co has complained
'In the coming months, expect more government action that will be packaged as an assault on black money,' warns A K Bhattacharya.
Singapore has allowed the sale of Maggi noodles manufactured in India.
'We, the audience, listen to stories that have nothing to do with us and we cry, just from the truth of those stories.' 'And Anvita is one of those people who makes this happen.'
Singapore says it will suspend importing noodles from India after the MSG controversy came up last week.
Nepal is testing Nestle's Maggi noodles imported from India for lead content and may impose a ban on the popular instant snack if the level of toxic chemical is found to be above permissible limit, officials said.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday promised to make Delhi a world class city in "just four years".
A truly 'made in India' satellite that will empower a digital India.
Ved Prakash who has been working in the field of recyclable raw materials for 29 years aims to 'create value' every day.
Bursts of volcanic lightning and lava lit up the night sky in southern Chile after the Calbuco volcano erupted twice after nearly half a century of inactivity, forcing over 5,000 people to evacuate.
IIT-M plans to meet the next milestone of its earth satellite project by the end of this year.
Rediff Labs investigates the link between environment and economy in countries around the world.
The Large Hadron Collider has restarted, with protons circling the machine's 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013
Women who apply eyeliner on the inner eyelid run the risk of contaminating the eye and causing vision trouble, a new study has warned.
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'COPD causes an economic loss of Rs 35,000 crores.' 'We cannot afford to lose such a huge amount due to one disease.' 'COPD is a non-communicable disease and that's why it remained low in priority.' 'The time is right to shift the focus to COPD as HIV/AIDS and TB are under control. 'This badly neglected disease has become the second largest cause for deaths in India.' 'It is time for us to wake up and give due importance to this disease.'
The recall was initiated by the company on January 21
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