Unavailability of intel channel among the conda channel list:

If you are getting an error: 

UnavailableInvalidChannel: HTTP 403 FORBIDDEN for channel intel <https://conda.anaconda.org/intel> while creating a python environment or installing python packages, you can solve it by running the command

conda config --remove channels intel.

If you would like to use intel hosted packages for python environment, you can access them by running the following command

conda config --add channels https://software.repos.intel.com/python/conda/