Rains may remain weak over the rest of the monsoon season, the India Meteorological Department warned on Monday, predicting an all India rainfall deficit of 16% for the months of August and Septemb
Is the Centre under NDA dispensation preparing to change its long-held position that Asiatic lions need a second home outside Gujarat's Gir sanctuary, and instead tilting towards the view of the st
Competing forecasts have injected a new dimension to the hazardous business of monsoon prediction this year, with private weather agency Skymet taking a completely different view of how rains would
It hasn't washed away the fears of deficit rainfall, but the monsoon's satisfactory performance so far has sharply reduced the possibility of a second consecutive drought in the country this year.
The monsoon is likely to remain strong through the month of June, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday, as another storm system developed over the Bay of Bengal, promising widesprea
After standing still for five days over the Andamans, the southwest monsoon advanced on Thursday to cover the entire island chain and weather department said rains would hit Kerala by May-end.
The monsoon is likely to hit India two days ahead of its normal onset date, the India Meteorological Department announced on Thursday even as the possibility of below-par rainfall grew, with both I
In 1997, the strongest El Nino in decades drove up temperatures across the world, making it the century's hottest year. Dire predictions were made for the Indian monsoon.
Global warming coupled with changes arising out of an evolving El Nino may have combined to cause the heavy spells of unseasonal rain which have devastated crops in many parts of India since late F
Reigniting the debate over India's tiger census, which has shown a 30% rise in the big cat's population in four years, a British-Indian team of scientists has said the exercise mostly likely suffer
