Don't know how to look fashionable while it rains? We have help -- we talked to a few Indian designers to see what they had to say about monsoon fashion trends.
The actress, who starred alongside Prithviraj Sukumaran in Kaduva, pulls in 2 million fans with her smiles and saris.
Bijoy Venugopal takes a long, wet drive through the hills of Tamil Nadu to meet the monsoon on its way out.
Let's pack for a day out at the beach with the Oru Adaar Love actress.
In run-up to the session, while over 4,000 people including MPs and staff have been tested for COVID-19, most parliamentary operations have been digitalized, entire premises sanitised and doors made touch-free.
However, it's too soon to see any trend; July rain is key.
'Limited spillovers' to Asia's third-largest economy, even as world 'perilously close' to recession.
He assured fears of food shortages were far-fetched.
The BJP has been talking about Ram Rajya for years now. I have asked many a right winger what that means, but they cannot say beyond good government, notes A Ganesh Nadar.
El Nino is often associated with below average warmer, dry weather across Asia Pacific region.
It is expected to advance into coastal and south-interior Karnataka during the next two days.
The action took place on the high seas at the peak of the Monsoon season in the first half of July when Pakistan Navy Ship Alamgir moved from its side to Indian waters across the maritime boundary line between the two countries, Government sources told ANI.
Sources said MPs of the opposition alliance in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet to chalk out their joint strategy for the session from September 18 to 22.
Several areas of Tamil Nadu remain inundated after hours of heavy to moderate rainfall in the region. Water entered houses and markets in the low-lying residential areas of Erode district due to heavy rainfall throughout the night.
Southwest monsoon, the key to the agriculture driven trillion-dollar Indian economy, on Tuesday brought showers to Kerala bringing much-needed relief to farmers.
'The water crisis is so obvious that people see no point begging for it from politicians.'
Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast
For the first time, large display screens and consoles for participation from galleries, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, special cables between the two Houses and polycarbonate separators will be in place.
Normally, the monsoon hits Kerala on June one after which it spans the entire country up to Rajasthan.
Climate change has hampered the ability of the forecasting agencies to accurately predict severe events and weather bureaus across the world are focusing on augmenting the observational network density and the weather prediction modelling to improve predictability, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra has said.
The duo used their mobile phone to establish contact for their rescue, following which an NDRF team was roped in.
White-collar hiring witnessed an 8.6 per cent annual decline in September, following a negative trend in sectors including IT, BPO or ITES and FMCG, a report said on Monday. On a month-on-month basis, however, there has been a growth of almost 6 per cent in job postings. In September, there were 2,835 white-collar job postings, down by 8.6 per cent compared to the same month last year when 3,103 jobs were posted, according to Naukri.com's monthly 'Naukri JobSpeak Index'.
"In the UK, every judge delivers a judgments in maximum of three to four cases in a day. But in Indian courts, every judge on an average presides over 40 to 50 cases every day. Now I realise that they sit extra time...people expect quality judgment. Judges are also human beings," Rijiju said.
Equity markets this week will be largely guided by trends in global stocks, foreign funds' trading activity and progress of monsoon, analysts said. Investors will also track the movement of rupee against the US dollar and crude oil prices. Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed at fresh lifetime highs on Friday.
The monsoon has finally brought back smiles to the faces of people, especially farmers, of India.
The south-west monsoon, crucial for the country's agriculture-based economy, is likely to hit the Kerala coast by June 2, the Indian Meteorological Department said on Thursday.
The government will announce minimum support prices for kharif.
After being underweight on domestic agrochemical companies and preferring global plays, brokerages believe that the former may perform better in the quarters ahead. Domestic crop protection companies have faced multiple headwinds over the past year and a half, given high inventory costs, pricing pressures, lower realisations in the generic segment, increased stocks due to lower infestations, and demand-led hits to volumes. Some of the overhang from previous quarters was reflected in the April-June quarter (first quarter, or Q1) of 2023-24 (FY24) as well, with aggregate revenues and operating profit for the sector down 12 per cent and 27 per cent, respectively.
States have been told to prepare in advance to counter any impact of an adverse southwest monsoon.
'Monsoon today advanced into remaining parts of coastal Karnataka and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim,' B P Yadav, director, Indian Meteorological Department, said.
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Passenger vehicle wholesales in India rose 9 per cent year-on-year in August on the back of strong demand for utility models, industry body SIAM said on Monday. Overall passenger vehicle dispatches to dealers rose to 359,228 units last month from 328,376 units in August 2022. Utility vehicle sales increased 34 per cent year-on-year to 181,825 units.
Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, who will be seen next in Jawan, loves her bargain pick-ups as much as her mother's saris.
Gandhi made the demand during her brief conversation with the prime minister in the Lok Sabha on the first day of the Monsoon session Just before the House met for the day, Modi took a round to greet various leaders.
Monsoon normally hits Kerala on June 1 but this year, Met department had predicted that it will hit the state on June 5.
"Conditions are favourable for the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala and its further advance into some more parts of south Arabian sea, remaining parts of Maldives - Comorin area, some parts of Tamil Nadu and some more parts of Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours," said a statement by the Indian Meteorological Department.
Thakur, seated in the witness box, got visibly emotional at one point and the proceedings were halted for ten minutes.
The government has readied a big legislative agenda for the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning Monday even as the Opposition is raring to corner the ruling dispensation over a host of issues, including handling of the second wave of COVID-19, rise in fuel prices and farmers' stir.
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