Mumbai municipality to induce rains; activists call it a sham torrential rains pounded Mumbai in the last week of June, but failed to help the city tide over the severe water shortage. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is now making frantic efforts to ease the crisis. On July 15, its standing committee decided to induce artificial rains through cloud seeding. As per

GoM To Ready Contingency Plan

Pune/New Delhi: There is every possibility of 2009 being a

With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week, the country seems headed into the worst drought year over the last two decades.

It is not just food grains and oilseeds which are going to be hit severely due to unprecedented drought conditions in Andhra Pradesh. Horticulture crops, which are evolving into a promising area, too would be adversely impacted.

Met Department Says Rains Might Return Tomorrow
Ahmedabad: Monsoon has taken a break and there has been not a single spell of shower since July 27. However, there seems to be some good news in store as the monsoon is expected to revive by August 13. However, the rains this year have so far blessed only Saurashtra and Kutch which have already received more than its annual average rainfall.

NEW DELHI: With the monsoon showing no sign of any major recovery, the India Meteorological Department late on Monday decided to reduce its estimate of rainfall during the season to 87 per cent for the country as a whole and for the season in its entirety.

New Delhi: Though the government is still chary of pronouncing a full-scale crisis over the errant monsoon and depleted sowing, prospects of more parts of the country being declared drought affected are increasing with the Met department on Monday downgrading its rainfall forecast from 93% of long-term average to 87%.

Aug. 10: All major irrigation projects, including the Sriramsagar Project (SRSP) in this district, has been receiving poor water inflows.
The water level in all the projects has drastically dropped and this is affecting the crops, particularly paddy. There have been prolonged dry spells across the district and the catchment areas of the river Godavari and its tributary Manjeera.

Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune/mumbai/new Delhi August 11, 2009, 0:25 IST

Bringing back grim memories of the past, an agrarian tragedy threatens to engulf Andhra Pradesh as result of the failure of the monsoon, triggering suicides by farmers.