Pune The city on Wednesday saw a lot of wind activity in most places, along with incessant rains.

Even as the wind velocity in the city on Tuesday was five nautical miles per hour (knots), it was low on Wednesday but could continue to scale up with the monsoon activity increasing in central Maharashtra.

HYDERABAD: Cloud-seeding operations could not be undertaken for the third day on Wednesday following a technical snag in the Cessna plane being used for the purpose.

Hong Kong: Dust clouds generated by a huge dust storm in China

Mumbai The water stored in Mumbai

It plays truant in Punjab, Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh

ROAD OR RIVER? A street which was submerged after rains lashed Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

MUMBAI: With levels in the lakes that supply water to the city at their lowest, the BMC on Wednesday cleared two proposals to carry out cloud seeding in the catchment areas. The decision was based on rainfall data for this monsoon so far- rain this year was 70% less than last year.

MUMBAI: The BMC is proposing to undertake a comprehensive cloud-seeding project at the catchments supplying water to the city. The project, which would be carried out over a period of 60 days and at a cost of Rs 12 crore, would be in addition to a seeding experiment the civic body may carry out this week.

The rainfall situation in parts of north and northwest India does not look good. Deficient rains threaten agriculture in States like Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, although there is still some hope of a recovery. The India Meteorological Department reports that the country as a whole received

Pravda Godbole / Pune July 15, 2009, 0:35 IST

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) today maintained there would be a normal monsoon in the country this year.