NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast that there could be some improvement in the monsoon situation over North India this coming week.

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: The onset of the southwest monsoon over Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of north India is likely to be delayed by at least one more week.

Monsoon To Remain Elusive For A Week

Ahmedabad: City mayor Kanaji Thakore is expected to perform the prajanya-yagna in Madhavpura on Sunday, during which he will sit in a vessel full of water, and pray for rain.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 28, 2010, 1:33 IST

Notwithstanding the unabated optimism of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) about normal monsoon this year, the progress of the south-west monsoon has been sluggish and patchy.

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast that the monsoon, which has remained stationary for the past one week, is expected to advance northwards again.

Running late by almost ten days, the monsoon is likely to revive in the next 24 to 48 hours, bringing an increase in rainfall activity over most of peninsular India and on the western coast.

Pune: The southwest monsoon isn

With growing importance being placed on climate change and mitigation strategies, India's space agency ISRO is in the process of launching a satellite to study greenhouse gases.

Arctic New York, June 17: Arctic sea ice melted 50 per cent faster than the average rate during May 2010, with combined global land and ocean surface temperature being the warmest on record for the period from January-May, studies have suggested.