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North very very wet, East stares at drought [1]

Amitabh Sinha

Monsoon showers in the last few days have almost completely wiped out the overall rainfall deficit of this season, but entire eastern India continues to reel under an abnormally dry spell and now faces a second successive year of serious drought.

Publication Date: 
12/08/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Droughts [3], Natural Disasters [4], India [5], Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) [6], Weather Predictions [7], Rainfall [8]
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