Delhi bans diesel gensets as pollution plan kicks in

The national capital banned generator sets, barring those being used in essential and emergency services, on Tuesday, as the air quality in several places in the city and adjoining areas slipped to......

UN praises IMD for 'Pinpoint accuracy' on Cyclone Fani

The United Nations agency for disaster reduction has commended the Indian Meteorological Department's "almost pinpoint accuracy" of early warnings that helped authorities conduct a well-targeted......

Heavy rains cripple Mumbai; more downpour expected on Tuesday

It is the highest rainfall of the season so far in 24 hours. IMAGE: People push a BEST bus after it gets struck on a water-logged street after heavy rainfall at Parel, in Mumbai.......

GST has transformed economy: PM in Mann Ki Baat

Almost a month after the goods and services tax rollout, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said it has transformed the economy and marks an example of cooperative federalism as......

The economy's El Nino risk

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......

Poor monsoon due to El Nino winds from Pacific

When the World Metereological Organisation warned our weather experts in June that a poor monsoon was coming , and also told them why, the latter wouldn't agree. Now they do. In June, WMO had......

Monsoon eludes half of India

The metereological department says that the monsoons will soon revive and the country may still get normal rainfall, but nearly half of the country's 524 districts have received below normal......