New Delhi: Monsoon will hit the Kerala coast on time on June 1, setting the stage for the four-month annual rainfall season crucial for India's agri-based economy. "The date of onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala is likely to be on June 1 with a model error of four days," India Meteorological Department announced in New Delhi on Tuesday. Stage is set for the onset of monsoon in South Andaman...
05:51 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: India's monsoon is likely to have average rainfall in 2012 despite fears the El Nino weather pattern may emerge in the second half of the season, the country's top weather official said, pointing to a third straight year without drought. The June-September monsoon, vital for agricultural output and economic growth, irrigates around 60 per cent of farms in India, the world's second-biggest producer of rice, wheat, sugar and...
05:38 PM, Apr 17, 2012
RS Dattatreya, Director Seismology, Indian Meteorological Department, said that the Home Ministry has been asked to take necessary precautions. ...
03:51 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Ahmedabad: Fishermen in south Gujarat have been advised not to venture into sea for the next 24 hours as rough weather and strong winds will prevail along and off south coasts in the state, local Met department said. Strong winds with speed of 45-55 km per hour and reaching occasionally upto 65 km per hour, would continue along and off Maharashtra and south Gujarat coasts during the next 24 hours,...
05:17 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Chennai: The Nicobar Islands were rocked by an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale at 12.57 pm on Friday, an India Meteorological Department official said. There were no reports of loss of life or property. "It was of moderate intensity, and initially there are no reports of any damage or casualty," the official said. The chain of islands in the Bay of Bengal is earthquake prone. An earthquake of...
04:46 PM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: The stage is set for a grand entry of south-west monsoon in Andamans and in quick succession in Kerala, raising hopes for a favourable season for millions of farmers across the country. "Conditions are favourable for setting in of the south-west monsoon over Andaman Sea during the next 24-48 hours," the India Meteorological Department said in New Delhi on Saturday evening. The weatherman said that conditions were also...
07:26 PM, May 28, 2011
Bangalore: One person got killed when a wall collapse damaged 5 parked cars near the Bangalore's Freedom park as heavy rains caused havoc in the city. A boy got washed away on Saturday evening as heavy rains lashed Bangalore for two consecutive days inundating low lying areas, uprooting trees in some regions and causing traffic jam on all the main roads. Incessant rains have uprooted trees in some areas while...
08:41 AM, Apr 24, 2011
New Delhi: Predicting the weather means calculating a thousand different possibilities. India has supercomputers to do that. But now, it wants one that is four times faster. Minister of State of Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar said, "We want to ratchet up our computing capacity from 70 terraflops to 300 terraflops." That is ten thousand times faster than your desktop Personal Computers. One teraflop means a trillion instructions solved every...
10:32 AM, Mar 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Met department is celebrating 136 years of unbroken service on Saturday. It's among the nation's oldest scientific institutions. India had Met stations even two centuries ago. But it was after a devastating cyclone over Calcutta in 1864 and severe drought a few years later, that the India Meteorological Department was formed in 1875. The department promises its weather predictions will be even more accurate now with the...
08:52 AM, Jan 15, 2011
New Delhi: With less then a month left to go for the Commonwealth Games, the rains could pose a huge problem for the Games. The Capital has had record monsoon rains this time, much higher than during the same period in previous years. Several drains have overflowed because of the excessive rainfall. Many roads have been severely damaged, fuelling fears that the deadline for the city's infrastructure development would not...
08:36 AM, Sep 06, 2010
![Quake measuring 6.0 hits Andaman Islands]( "Quake measuring 6.0 hits Andaman Islands")
The earthquake with a latitude of 13.4 degree north and a longitude of 93.0 degree east occurred at 4.39 am. ...
07:48 AM, Jun 19, 2010
![Andaman islands hit by series of earthquakes]( "Andaman islands hit by series of earthquakes")
Tremors were also felt in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa where residents ran out of their homes in panic. ...
03:13 PM, Jun 13, 2010
134 people including 5 CRPF jawans have died due to sun stroke across the country. ...
10:48 PM, May 27, 2010
The weather department has predicted foggy days ahead. ...
06:13 PM, Nov 13, 2009
Heavy rainfall is predicted in Gujarat and Maharashtra. ...
02:19 AM, Nov 11, 2009
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