New Delhi: As North India boils under intense heat, the Met department has said that monsoon is expected to hit the Kerala coast by June 3. "Monsoon is expected to reach Kerala close to its normal date that is June 3," DS Pai, Director (Long Range Forecast), Met Department said.
He also said that the first part of the monsoon will be better than the last year. South-west monsoon had on Monday advanced further covering the entire Andaman Sea and parts of Bay of Bengal. "The southwest monsoon has further advanced into some parts of southwest Bay of Bengal, some more parts of southeast Bay of Bengal, some parts of east central Bay of Bengal and entire Andaman Sea," the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
South-west monsoon had brought its first showers to the Andaman Sea on May 17, three day's before the normal onset date. Meahwinle, the Met department officials say temperatures will continue to be 3 to 4 degrees above normal for this time of the year in many parts of North India....
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01:45 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Expect another hot day on Tuesday across North India and parts of the South. Met department officials say temperatures will continue to be 3 to 4 degrees above normal for this time of the year in many parts of North India. The current prolonged heat wave, the second time in 10 years, is expected to last at least till May 24. As North India boils, the intense heat...
11:59 AM, May 21, 2013
Bangalore: Bangalore is fearing an acute water shortage in days to come. Municipal officials have warned that the city has water only for the next 15 to 18 days. Already residents like Hiral Dhilla, from Rajajinagar are forced to buy water from tankers nearly six times a month. This mother of two is now preparing for the worst. "Because Bangalore is expanding left, right and centre, it is going to...
08:59 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: South-west monsoon on Friday made a debut in the Andaman Sea and parts of Bay of Bengal, setting the stage for the four-month rainfall season crucial for India's agriculture-based economy. "Southwest Monsoon has set in over some parts of south Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea," India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here. It said conditions were favourable for further advance of monsoon over some more parts of Bay...
06:42 PM, May 17, 2013
Monsoon rains may arrive on the southern coast around June 3, the weather office said on Wednesday, a late debut that will raise fears any revival for drought-hit tracts of southern and western farmland could be delayed. The rains, which run from June to September, are vital for the 55 per cent of farmland that is without irrigation in India, one of the world's largest producers and consumers of food....
07:22 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha has approved the extension of the term of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam till the end of Monsoon Session. The Monsoon Session is likely to begin around July 23. Facing a combined Opposition and allegations of bias, the chairman of JPC, PC Chacko had held informal consultation with the members. Sources say the BJP had agreed for an extension. The tenure of the...
03:19 PM, May 06, 2013
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is taking as many as five productions to this year's Cannes Film Festival starting on May 15. This takes the number to two more than the last year. ...
09:57 AM, May 06, 2013
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11:39 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: India expects total monsoon rainfall to be average in 2013, a minister said on Friday, strengthening prospects for one of the world's biggest grains producers to avoid widespread drought for a fourth straight year. India's first official forecast confirms a call by global experts last week, and points to bumper grain supplies that would swell huge current stockpiles and hold down world food prices. "Most likely this year's...
04:59 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: South-west monsoon rains are expected to be "satisfactory" barring some states in South India, Food Minister KV Thomas said on Friday ahead of an official forecast later in the day. "We have an assessment of monsoon. Monsoon will be quite satisfactory in India except the southern tip - Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu," Food Minister KV Thomas told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Delhi. Monsoon...
02:08 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Mumbai: Actress Sonam Kapoor is gearing up to join the 66th edition of Cannes International Film Festival, where India is the guest country. A source close to Sonam revealed: "Sonam will be attending Cannes next month. The film festival is celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema and Sonam has shot for a special feature with a French team who has come down to capture a day in the life of...
12:24 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Jamwadi: India may be heading for another bumper grain harvest, if the first forecast for this year's monsoon proves correct, but the rain may be too little - and too late - for southern and western states already parched by the worst drought in four decades. Although 2012 monsoon rains were, overall, just seven per cent below normal, these states - including major sugar producer Maharashtra and cotton-growing Gujarat -...
06:23 AM, Apr 24, 2013
India may avoid a drought for a fourth straight year as the El Nino weather system looks unlikely to impact monsoon rains, a leading forecaster said on Thursday, promising yet another bumper grains output in the Asia's third-biggest economy. El Nino was a factor in India's last severe drought in 2009 when the country had to import sugar, pushing global prices to 30-year highs. ...
08:09 PM, Mar 07, 2013
After completing an "exhausting shoot" of her much anticipated movie 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', filmmaker Mira Nair has started working on her next project, a musical adaptation of her movie 'Monsoon Wedding'. ...
12:38 PM, Feb 06, 2013
New Delhi: Despite several disruptions over FDI in retail and promotion quota bill issues, the Winter Session of Parliament (Nov 22-Dec 20) was better than the previous Monsoon Session, during which 13 out of 20 days were washed out to protests over faulty coal block allocations, the government said Thursday. "This was a better session," Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari told IANS. "It was a fruitful session as key...
11:14 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Oslo: The Indian monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly on human burning of fossil fuels, and related shifts in tropical air flows, it said. "Monsoon failure becomes much more...
08:59 AM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: Sloganeering, boycotts, walkouts and disruptions in the Monsoon Session of Parliament led to 151 of the scheduled 206 work hours being wasted, according to responses to a Right to Information (RTI) query on Friday. The replies came from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats. However, no new steps to prevent such washouts are being proposed by Parliament and there is no information on the hourly costs incurred...
05:38 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Despite showers in the last few weeks, the prospect of drinking water shortage still looms large over the twin cities. In fact, no less an official than the new managing director of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) J Syamala Rao indicated that citizens should brace for shortage of drinking water, off and on, till the next monsoon. We will be able to manage with water...
01:45 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The culvert on the Edanada-Killiyar stream which is notorious for causing flooding in the Pipinmoodu area is being widened. The PWD-Irrigation Department began the widening work on Monday. The widening of the culvert has been a long-pending demand of the residents of the Pipinmoodu area. Waterlogging in the residential area owing to the overflowing of the stream has been common during the monsoon season. Last year too, on December...
12:50 PM, Sep 25, 2012
