India’s Western Ghats, a global biodiversity hotspot, is home to many endemic and endangered species of amphibians, some of which are new to science and others suspected of lying in wait of discovery.

CHENNAI: The state govt is expanding its special area development programme (SADP) to include 33 blocks in 11 districts, including Kalvarayan hills in Kallakurichi, within the Eastern Ghats, starting ...

HYDERABAD: Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India, Freshwater Biology Regional Centre (Hyderabad), and Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars Senthikumara Nadar College (Tamil Nadu) have reported the ...

Four new species of tarantulas, including one new genus, have been described from India’s Western Ghats mountains. A concerning trend shows that 25% of newly described tarantula species since 2000 ...

Madurai: Parts of Theni district received heavy rainfall, while Tirunelveli, Tenkasi and Tuticorin districts received widespread rain since Friday night, a day after the northeast monsoon arrived in ...

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Odisha government is mulling to develop the Berhampur-Jeypore Expressway (BJEW) as a six-lane greenfield high-speed transport corridor with parallel rail connectivity, the ...

Blue mountains: The Nilgiri Hills in southern India are famously known as the Blue Mountains. Situated at the junction of the Eastern and Western Ghats across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, this ...

Scientists found a venomous 10-foot-long snake in the hills of Karnataka and discovered a new species: the Western Ghats king cobra. Photo from Arun Yokesh via Unsplash In the forested hills of ...

New Delhi [India], October 26 (ANI): South-East Delhi DM Sravan Bagaria on Sunday said that over a thousand ghats are being constructed across Delhi on the occasion of the Chhath festival. Speaking to ...