The low pressure-induced torrential rains across the State have further brightened the prospects of a bumper kharif crop for the second consecutive year

Choppy sea today nearly swallowed many villages while heavy rains battered the coastal belt amidst squally wind conditions as the deep depression over Bay of Bengal made its landfall near Chandbali on

Rainfall decreased over two-thirds of India, says study Conventional thinking has it that India with global warming will receive more rainfall. But that need not necessarily be so. Annual rainfall, especially during winter and monsoon, has decreased in over 68 per cent of the country, claims a recent study by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (iitm), Pune. Scientists attribute the

More rainfall in summer, post monsoon 46 per cent of the country showed a decreasing trend in winter rainfall 74.7 per cent of the country showed a decline in monsoon 73.3 per cent of the country showed increase in rainfall in summer 54.4 per cent of the country showed increase in post monsoon rainfall

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The recent rain has exposed the civic body

Storms lashed Britain on Friday, flooding houses and causing transport chaos in Wales and southwest England.

Forecasters said there was more heavy rain to come and said there could be more flooding as the storms moved north.
The Taff river in south Wales burst its banks and the government's Environment Agency published about 40 other flood warnings on rivers in England and Wales.