The death toll in the avalanche that struck Mana village near Badrinath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district has risen to four, an official said on Saturday.

In a bid to curb air pollution levels in the national capital, Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced that vehicles older than 15 years will not be provided fuel at petrol pumps. The revised rules will be effective from March 31.

Geologist Ranjit Singh and his team discovered over a dozen parts of the fossil of a tree, around 20 feet long, some 125 kilometers away from state capital Ranchi. The tree is believed to date back to the Cretaceous period.