New Delhi: Monsoon, the lifeline of Indian agriculture, is most likely to hit Kerala by June 5 and there is no room for concern over sowing of kharif (summer) crops like paddy and pulses, a top India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. "Most likely, the southwest monsoon will reach Kerala by June 5," IMD Director General LS Rathore said. Asked if there is a delay in monsoon onset, he said,...
08:19 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Mumbai: Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Friday said he is hopeful about the New Companies Bill getting passed in the Monsoon Session. "Since the Standing Committee of Parliament has concluded its deliberations on the New Companies Bill, I expect it to submit it to the ministry soon and table it in the Monsoon Session," Moily told reporters in Mumbai on the sidelines of a function on Friday. Claiming that...
11:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
BANGALORE: The South- West Monsoon may bring cheers to Karnataka farmers, which is expected to hit coastal Karnataka by June 2.If agriculture meteorologists predictions are right, the state might receive 5 per cent excess rainfall over the seasonal normal of 805 mm.The South-West Monsoon, which is crucial for agricultural operations, will set in through coastal Kerala on June 1, and is expected to hit coastal Karnataka the following day.The state...
09:01 AM, May 28, 2012
BANGALORE: Monsoon showers affected the civic life, with eight trees uprooting incidents across the city were reported on Tuesday evening. Interestingly, this time the Palike staff attended the complaints on time and avoided traffic miseries.However, water-logging in Okalipuram, Shivananda Circle, Mysore Road, Residency Road, Richmond Road, and Rajajinagar resulted in snail pace traffic in these areas. BBMP sources said Bangalore South was worst affected and four old trees in separate...
08:37 AM, May 16, 2012
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 is expected to receive normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced on Thursday. The June-September rainfall is expected to be 99 per cent of the long-term average, Deshmukh said during a press conference. India's chief monsoon forecaster D Sivananda Pai, however, said that there was possibility of El Nino weather conditions developing in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, which are usually...
06:44 PM, Apr 26, 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
Mumbai: Actor Randeep Hooda is all set to play a cold blooded murderer, a character modelled around Javier Bardem's famous role in 'No Country For Old Men', in his next film 'John Day'. Randeep plays a violent, cold and menacing character with a dark sense of humor much like Anton Chigurh in 'John Day', an edge of the seat revenge drama also starring Naseeruddin Shah with whom Randeep began his...
04:45 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Monday said it had launched the monsoon mission programme to help improve forecast of the annual rainfall season, an initiative that would benefit millions of farmers. "The Monsoon Mission programme launched by my Government will enable us to significantly improve monsoon prediction for the benefit of our farmers," President Pratibha Patil said in her address to the joint sitting of Parliament. Patil said over 40...
01:38 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Panaji: The Congress on Monday compared the newly-emerged Trinamool Congress in Goa to a mushroom growing in the monsoon, saying the party had just come up at the height of the electoral season and would not have much impact. "The Trinamool Congress (TC) is in a nascent stage... It is like a mushroom which springs up only in the rainy season," Congress state working president Francisco Sardinha told reporters here....
07:18 PM, Feb 13, 2012
CHENNAI: Reservoirs in Chennai are almost full due to heavy rains across the state. Sources in the Public Works Department (PWD) said that the water would be sufficient to meet Chennais drinking water requirementsfor the next nine months. Highly-placed sources in the department told City Express that the Poondi, Cholavaram, Red Hills, Chembarambakkam and Veeranam reservoirs are 90 percent full. Authorities are maintaining a buffer of 90 per cent, anticipating...
08:33 AM, Nov 29, 2011
CHENNAI: What began as a drizzle on Thursday evening continued well into the wee hours of Friday, with increasing intensity, till a large part of the city was inundated. Apparently having learnt from the monsoon spells last month, Chennai Corporation authorities appeared to have done a reasonable job with the storm water drains, as the water drained away in most arterial stretches late on Friday morning. In the city, Anna...
08:12 AM, Nov 26, 2011
CHENNAI: The torrential showers that began a little after 9 pm on Thursday hit the city hard as it continued till well past midnight. Heavy waterlogging was seen in sections of Poonamallee High Road, especially near KMC where road work is still underway, with only a temporary storm water drain system in place. Anna Salai was bereft of traffic as the water levels reached above the pavement in a few...
08:11 AM, Nov 25, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After a weak spell of the south-west monsoon, the north-east monsoon too is cheating Thiruvananthapuram. When the state received 9 per cent more rainfall during the south-west monsoon period, there was 33-per cent deficient rainfall in the city between June 1 and September 30. The north-east monsoon too is not different. Between intermittent showers, the city has mostly remained dry even after the onset of the north-east monsoon. From...
10:44 AM, Nov 11, 2011
CHENNAI: While the City Corporation has been hailed by the city residents for its swift action in removing heavy water-logging from different areas after the recent rains, it has been at the receiving end for miserably failing to check the mosquito menace that has been affecting the city during the last few days. Though the civic bodys Health Department is in denial mode over the spurt in mosquitoes due to...
08:11 AM, Nov 10, 2011
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