China has blocked efforts to step up the protection of emperor penguins that are increasingly threatened by the effects global warming is having on their natural habitat in Antarctica.
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) created the Guinness World Record for completing the construction of 75 km continuous bituminous concrete in a single lane on NH 53 between Amravati and Akola in Maharashtra.
Chhattisgarh has become only the second state in the country to recognize the Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights of a village inside a Kanger Ghati National Park.
Union Cabinet Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw has inaugurated the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) Centre Leh.