Governor K. Sankaranarayanan today lamented that though the state receives an average of 1400mm rainfall every year, yet at least 80 per cent of rainwater gets wasted in the absence of comprehensive planning.

JEYPORE: Embarrassing the State Government further, a young farmer of Putra village under Ambaguda panchayat in Jeypore village allegedly committed suicide yesterday over loan burden and failed crop.

Oct. 22: Even as India and other countries quibble about how to handle climate change and who should cut what percentage of carbon emissions, the damaging effects of global warming are being felt right in our own backyard.

ROURKELA: Even as the harvesting time is nearing, over 1.66 lakh medium and marginal farmers in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district are staring at bleak time.

As per official reports, all 262 gram panchayats and 17 blocks have been affected by water-stress condition with the district receiving 29 per cent less rainfall.

New Delhi: After its predictions went wrong this year, the weather office is mulling doing away with issuing summer monsoon forecasts and replacing them with weather outlook for every month, a top official on Thursday said.

Kunal Bose / October 13, 2009, 0:40 IST

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BHAWANIPATNA: The current climate has come as a relief for the cotton farmers of Kalahandi district who have been panicky over the prospects of paddy crop due to a long dry spell and fickle monsoon.