July and August are expected to receive 107 per cent and 104 per cent of rainfall
In spite of Budget's rural focus, the government has consistently stumbled in agriculture, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Legislators, bureaucrats feel an impact, with works relating to their constituencies stuck at various levels.
Here's a recap of moments captured in India in the past 48 hours.
Sources said while the Janata Dal-Secular will have nine new ministers, the Congress will have nearly 12 of its legislators inducted into the cabinet. Lone Bahujan Samaj Party MLA N Mahesh will also be a part of the cabinet expansion and will be given a key portfolio.
If money allocations, investment commitments are a sign of better things to come, the state can be optimistic.
The return of a BJP-Sena regime after a love-hate war and gap of 15 years, demise of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde, collapse of Congress-Nationalisy Congress Party alliance and rising cases of farmers' suicides dominated Maharashtra's political landscape in 2014.
Akhilesh was always seen as someone working under the shadow of his father and uncles. However, overtime, he started asserting his authority.
Several SP leaders fear Muslim voters may shift loyalty, which will benefit rivals like the BJP.
55% of cultivable land still doesn't come under irrigation.
The feud in Uttar Pradesh's first family has ended, with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday night restoring all but one portfolios of Shivpal Yadav and promising to support him as SP's state unit president, a post from which he was himself removed three days back triggering the power tussle with his uncle.
'One per cent of wealthy people have been handed over 99 per cent of our nation's resources. The rest are mute, helpless and very frightened spectators to this loot.'
'Drought in the 1990s was essentially the drought of a poor India.' 'This 2016 drought is of a richer and more water-guzzling India.' 'The severity and intensity of the drought is not about lack of rainfall.' 'It is about the lack of planning and foresight, and criminal neglect.'
A good monsoon would translate into demand pickup across multiple sectors.
'Sachin Pilot has revived the Congress.' 'What goes in favour of Ashok Gehlot is experience.'
When faced with problems, this IAS officer came up with innovative solutions.
Kerala, Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are facing a severe drought this year, affecting livelihoods as well as lives.
In all, 170 bathing ghats have been readied in Kurnool, Guntur and Krishna districts for the Pushkaram.
Data spanning the years 1951 to 2014 show that temperature and pressure conditions at specific locations in the Arctic region during the pre-monsoon period correlate with the Indian summer monsoon rainfall, points out Charu Bahri.
It was conveyed that he would not have a free rein in making bureaucratic postings. Sunil Bansal, handpicked by BJP president Amit Shah to execute his UP blueprint, has made it clear the party's writ would run over the government. But Adityanath has institutionalised a system to keep Bansal out, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
Joyita Ghose on the land acquisition laws in the country and the changes that the NDA government's controversial bill in Parliament makes to the land acquisition act, 2013 brought in by the United Progressive Alliance government.
Fourteen ministers are from the Congress, nine from its ruling coalition partner Janata Dal-Secular and one each from the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party.
'In the last 55 years India and Pakistan have gone to wars, but nobody spoke about scrapping the Indus Waters Treaty.'
Clauses on land return, action against officials diluted
If the Ganga manages a rebirth, so will the country.Roy
Controversy shrouds the expansion of the Akhilesh Yadav ministry on Monday with a social activist throwing a spanner by challenging before Governor Ram Naik the possible re-entry of tainted former Mines Minister Gayatri Prajapati.
Congress party in Maharashtra has its hopes pinned on a 'newly recharged' vice-president Rahul Gandhi for its revival.
'More people will come out of the BJP. You just wait and watch.'
The average land given to the rural landless is small and falling, from 0.95 acres in 2002 to 0.88 acres in 2015 - a 7.4 per cent drop over 13 years-and a slowdown is evident in the process of taking land away from rich landlords, the RTI data reveal.
'The first two months of monsoon are not looking good.' 'In case both the halves fail, it is going to be misery.'
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Kerala Congress-M says nobody has asked Mani to resign as UDF leaders meet to discuss the issue.
Ten trade unions to go on strike to protest against changes in labour laws
The NCP says its support from outside to the BJP government is without compromising its ideology. Sanjay Jog reports
Metal stocks also had a good session, with JSW Steel zooming by 7%, and Tata Steel and Nalco gaining about 3% each.
It is a complete mayhem in West Bengal, Manipur and Odisha with more than 60 dead
Studying wolves' howls could reveal how human language evolved.
The IMD came out with a dismaying prediction.
'Most of the agitations are staged by the Opposition to disturb the peace of the state.'
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