IMAGE: Residents carrying their belongings on a rickshaw as they wade through a flooded street after heavy rains created havoc in Delhi in July. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters The......
Southwest Monsoon is likely to arrive over Kerala around May 31, setting the stage for the four-month rainfall season crucial for India's farm-based economy. Image used for representational......
India is expected to record normal rainfall during the second half of the monsoon season following excess precipitation in July, even as El Nino and other unfavourable conditions may suppress rain......
In the coming months, globally as well as in India, rice might remain a hot potato. IMAGE: Women plant rice saplings in a paddy field in Assam. Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters A fortnight or......
Climate change is growing stronger and more robust, and the cooling, counter effects of La Nina may not be effective in a warmer future, climate scientists said, assessing current heat trends seen......
The last El Nino outlook report of the World Meteorological Organisation had said that only half of weather models in use foresee a weak El Nino to set in between June and August, a period relevant......
Worries of an El Nino effect this monsoon are an added complication for the Reserve Bank’s task of managing of inflation. Arising from a weather change in the Pacific Ocean every few years,......
India's southwest monsoon, crucial for the economy, is expected to be close to normal this year as the devastating El Nino weather pattern that has caused drought is nearly over, officials and......
Less-than-expected rainfall and a poor spatial distribution, experts say, can rekindle fears of a rise in food and fuel inflation that can have an impact on the RBI's monetary policy. Photograph:......
The impact will be felt more on agricultural segments such as seeds, pesticides, micro irrigation and sugar, say Ujjval Jauhari and Vishal Chhabria With the Australian Metereology department......