It looks like chunks of ice — but put a flame to it and it goes ablaze. Touch it, and you’ll feel an odd sizzling sensation. This peculiar compound is methane hydrate. Not only might it become the source of the world’s next energy bonanza, but it could also let some coastal developing nations leapfrog coal and other ‘dirty’ sources of energy.

Agra: Police quizzed acid attack activist Ketan Dixit for several hours in Burhan police station, seized his lap top and pen drive, for defying ban on the controversial documentary ‘Indian's Daughter’, which he showed to villagers on a makeshift screen.

Agra: Police quizzed acid attack activist Ketan Dixit for several hours in Burhan police station, seized his lap top and pen drive, for defying ban on the controversial documentary ‘Indian's Daughter’, which he showed to villagers on a makeshift screen.

Agra: Police quizzed acid attack activist Ketan Dixit for several hours in Burhan police station, seized his lap top and pen drive, for defying ban on the controversial documentary ‘Indian's Daughter’, which he showed to villagers on a makeshift screen.

Mathura: Green activists in Mathura and Vrindavan have welcomed the Supreme Court intervention taking to task the UP Forest Department for submitting false information relating to trees planted in the eco-sensitive Taj Trapezium Zone.

Jatipura (Goverdhan): A page from 5000 year old history of Braj Mandal was re-enacted at the renovated Rudra Kund recently when ascetics from Varanasi with an image of Kashi's (Varanasi) presiding deity arrived with fanfare with Ganga water to be part of the ceremonial inauguration of the holy pond.