Small and marginal farmers practising agriculture on rain-fed farms will bear the brunt of climate change
Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 06, 2010, 0:28 IST

BHUBANESWAR: An unrelenting heatwave continued to scorch western parts of the State, while coastal Orissa experienced humid conditions for the third consecutive day.

New Delhi: During the course of last month, many Delhiites swore they had never experienced such high temperatures in the capital this time of the year. They were absolutely right. March this year was the second warmest in Delhi since systematic records began in 1901, the Met department said on Friday. The only time Delhi had a warmer month of March was way back in 1953.

The A&N Islands were rocked by a strong earthquake on Tuesday night. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and was recorded at the north Andaman region, nearly 137 miles north of Port Blair.

Pune Last year this time, around three villages and 10 wadis in Pune district was receiving water via tankers. This figure was in unison with the groundwater level in the district that later dropped to an average of 6.17 metres in May last year.

BIG corporate houses are rushing to private weather forecasters for monsoon projections, as they look to finalise their investment and production estimates for next year.

Monsoon rains are the lifeline of Asia

Mumbai An Indian-made Doppler radar designed for real time weather prediction, a need felt during the 2005 deluge, is headed for the city, with weather officials optimistic it will be in place before this year

Eswar Singh K R Mysore, Mar 25, DHNS

As one more World Meteorological Day passes without fanfare early this week, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Bangalore is quietly on the path of updating and modernisation.

EL NINO UNLIKELY TO RECUR; DELAY IN THE ONSET OF SOUTHWEST MONSOON LIKLEY The El Nino condition had started to weaken by November and December, and we expect it to neutral in the next few months.

A recent report by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has pointed out that 2009 received the third worst rainfall since 1901, behind 1918 when there was a 25 per cent deficiency and 1972 when the deficiency was 24 per cent of the Long Period Average. The report, released in January, was prepared by the National Climate Centre, IMD, Pune.