Aug. 9: Hyderabad is the worst affected among seven Telangana districts, failing to get any rain in the last week, according to the Indian Meteorological Department

Refuse To Buy Pawar Line of Wait-And-Watch As Met Office Gives More Bad News
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New Delhi: When increase in prices and fall in monsoon rainfall became the central concern for the entire Opposition to target UPA government in Parliament on Thursday, the weatherman provided more ominous news.

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: The southwest monsoon crossed its midway point five days ago but the situation continues to be grim across the country, with part of the gains made during the first half of July even getting eroded during the past two weeks following the northward movement of the monsoon trough from its normal position.

The monsoon decides the Indian farmers' fate

P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department on Friday forecast that over the next one week, rainfall activity over western, central and peninsular parts of the country is likely to remain subdued, even as Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and the north eastern region could continue to experience enhanced rainfall.

There have been good crops in years of poor rain
Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 28, 2009, 0:04 IST

There have been good crops in years of poor rain and huge variations in years which have had similar rain.

The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that heavy to very heavy rainfall will be witnessed in southwest Madhya Pradesh, north-central Maharashtra, north Konkan and south Rajasthan in the next 24 hours. At some places, the rainfall can be extremely heavy crossing the 25-cm mark.

Mumbai: Rain gods could do with some rest in the last ten days of July. The city has already received more rainfall than the last nine years' average in the first 20 days of the month itself.