
London: Viewers of BBC Scotland were on Thursday pleasantly surprised when Prince Charles appeared on their screens to present the weather, and cracked some jokes in the process. He delivered the lunchtime weather bulletin when he and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the BBC's Glasgow office. BBC Scotland is currently celebrating 60 years of operation. Prince Charles appeared initially to fiddle around the 'clicker' which is used to change the...

10:08 PM, May 10, 2012

New Delhi: The national capital saw the coldest Christmas in six years with the minimum dropping to 2.9 degrees Celsius. The Met department has forecast ground frost in the capital's vicinity and intense morning fog to return later this week. According to the Met department, ground frost might occur over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, north Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh in the next two days. Across North India, the...

08:41 AM, Dec 26, 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: The biting cold wave across North India claimed one more life, taking the toll this season to 7. Delhi became warmer on Tuesday at 10 degrees Celsius. But there was no let up in temperatures in Haryana with Narnaul reeling at a low of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Chandigarh registered a low of 5.3 degrees Celsius, while Srinagar experienced its coldest night of the season with the mercury plunging...

08:00 AM, Dec 28, 2010

The monsoon brings rains to Indian crops that depend on it. ...

03:34 PM, Jul 12, 2009