Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
J. Balaji NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday allayed fears about the country facing a drought this year. Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced that the south-west monsoon was likely to resume over the remaining parts of central India and some parts of north-west India after July 1.
Kaustubh Kulkarni / New Delhi June 29, 2009, 0:06 IST
Pune With monsoon remaining elusive, as many as 75 villages and over 300 hamlets are facing severe drinking water shortage. The total number of affected population stands at 1.40 lakh. The Pune Zilla Parishad in association with district collectorate is providing water to these affected villlages through tankers.
This year the southwest monsoon set in early over Kerala and got off to a dramatic, if unpropitious, start. Cyclone Aila swept in from the Bay of Bengal and wreaked havoc, including much loss of life, in West Bengal and neighbouring Bangladesh. Thereafter, the monsoon went into a slump and its progress northwards has been tardy.
Sapna Dogra Singh / New Delhi June 26, 2009, 1:09 IST The government
The coming week will be cruicial for the country
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI June 25: The government is not pressing the panic button despite a rain-deficient June riding on the hope that the delayed monsoon will not affect its food stocks.
Mumbai/Ahmedabad, June 25: Amid fears of drought due to delayed monsoon, several parts of western India received sporadic rainfall on Thursday with Met office forecasting favourable conditions for advance of southwest monsoon into Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. However, rains played truant in Central India including Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Asit Jolly Chandigarh June 25: Reduced water levels in major reservoirs, including the Bhakra Dam, due to the delayed monsoon in the north-west region will mean curtailed supplies to Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
Shamsher Singh Surjewala, president, All-India Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress, has said the administration has constituted committees at the district level to tackle the problems arising out of the delay in monsoon.