The long and intense heat spells attributed to climate change, has of late posed discomfort to animals in the State Zoo. Though most of the animals out of the 750 at the zoo are indigenous, still the climate change that has been triggering erratic monsoons and water scarcity has prompted the zoo authorities to adopt a special summer care regime for the animals since the last couple of years. Apart from regulation of their diet, some of the species have been requiring artificial watering to keep their nerves cool in the scorching season.

Many Delhiites welcomed the rain, as it brought relief from the muggy weather of the past few days.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today stressed the need for establishment of flood forecasting stations in coordination with organisations like the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Central Water Commission (CWC) and the Meteorology department to mitigate the losses due to flash floods.

It's Going To Be A Long Wet Season, Says Met Office The monsoon splashed its way into the record books on Sunday, hitting Delhi a full two weeks before its

The freakish summer in Delhi this year is officially set to end in a few days. According to Met officials, monsoon is expected to hit the city by next week, heralding the rainy season many days before its

IT'S HERE: The scene in Patna on Thursday soon after the city had the first shower of the monsoon. NEW DELHI: There is some good news for Delhi and surrounding areas. The India Meteorological Department on Thursday announced that the monsoon could arrive over the Capital and other parts of North-West India well ahead of the normal date of June 29.

Travel advisories issued by the US government to its globe trotting citizens are usually to do with terrorist attacks or the outbreak of a deadly virus. However, this time in Mumbai it's the monsoon and BMC's handling of it that has got Uncle Sam to caution its citizens.

Many divisions of Madhya Pradesh, along with the State capital Bhopal, experienced rains on Monday. The weather during the day was sultry. With the weather taking a turn for the last one week, the temperature in many districts has come down to 38 degree celsius; Rajgarh district in the State however has recorded maximum temperature of 40 degree celsius. Today the city skies remained overcast with humidity causing lot of distress to the people. The skies also played hide and seek with the sun. However, the intensity of the sun was dampened by the presence of clouds.

THE metropolis has been flooded on the very first day of the rain, exposing the hollowness of BMC's tall claim on rain-preparedness, but the Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak blames it on heavy outpouring and high tide. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Phatak said during monsoon on an average a city gets over 40mm of rainfall daily. However, the city received 161mm in the very first rain due to which the water logging took place.

The south-west monsoon is likely to hit Madhya Pradesh on time around June 13. Conditions are highly favourable for the monsoon to arrive in Madhya Pradesh this week with an upper air cycer built above Orrisa and Andhra Pradesh over the Bay Of Bengal and monsoon advancing further.