With many parts of the State facing drought, the agriculture production, including food crops, will be badly hit in the current year in the State.

Mexico is suffering from its driest year in 68 years, killing crops and cattle in the countryside and forcing the government to slow the flow of water to the crowded capital.

Even after five days of rain, the Capital till Tuesday had received only half the normal amount of rainfall it receives each year. However, despite the heat, humidity and discomfort endured by residents during the ongoing monsoon months, latest data from the India Meteorological Department reveals that Delhi has fared better than the rest of the NCR region.

There are three different types of drought, not one. There is a meteorological drought, when actual rainfall is deficient (20 per cent below normal) or scanty (60 per cent or more below normal). The Indian Meteorological Department has now declared a deficiency of 29 per cent in the south-west monsoon. Let

Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune August 19, 2009, 1:08 IST

When the World Metereological Organisation (WTO) warned our weather experts in June that a poor monsoon was coming , and also told them why, the latter wouldn

New Delhi: With more states and districts joining the growing list of drought-affected regions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday once again appraised states about the enormity of the problem and asked them to jointly work to mitigate the suffering of people, mainly farmers.

Madden-Julian Oscillation May Counter El Nino

Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi August 18, 2009, 1:11 IST
Delay in the monsoon arrival had caused water storage to touch a historic low of 9% in June.

Unplanned mining blamed for turning monsoon rains into sludge heavy monsoon rains mixed with silt from the mines in North Goa damaged about 100 homes in Bicholim taluka on June 6 and 7. No one died. Survivors said they barely managed to escape in time and lost all their belongings. In the mining belt, silt from the pits dug to extract iron ore is stacked in the open. During

Cure from Cuba: Two Cuban epidemiologists arrived in Sri Lanka to help the government combat a dengue epidemic. Cuba has been controlling dengue with Bacillus Thuringensis Israelensis bacteria that kills the larvae of the mosquitoes that spread dengue. The epidemiologists will help set up a framework to control mosquito breeding before the government imports the bacteria from Cuba.