The June-September monsoon has so far delivered 1 per cent higher rainfall than average
The 12-time French Open champion unhappy with schedule.
Brisbane had been the preferred host, chosen in February, and the board's proposal now goes to the IOC session before the Tokyo Olympics
The issue of fog and low visibility primarily impacts airports in northern India and Bengaluru.
Way before the rains arrived at Talwandi Sabo Power plant in Punjab, the one check the coal ministry was carrying out was the availability of coal stock with the generator. Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL), the 1,980-Mw thermal power plant of Sterlite Energy, part of the Vedanta Group, which supplies about 15 per cent of Punjab's power, is one of the most difficult locations to manage coal supplies. It is nearly 1,700 km from the mines of Mahanadi Coalfields in Odisha, the longest coal route in India and possibly the trickiest as it cuts through the traffic heavy rail lines between Delhi and eastern India.
IMD expects day temperatures to remain above-normal in select regions across the country between March and May 2021.
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hitting the continent from Tuesday -- posing a threat to life. Authorities have urged children and older people to stay indoors and issued severe warnings against dehydration and heatstroke. The heat wave is being caused by a 2,000-mile wide plume of hot air dubbed the 'Saharan bubble' which is being blown from Africa by an unusually strong jet stream.
The overall confirmed cases on the mainland have reached 80,881 by the end of Monday.
More than 1,600 people died due to extreme weather conditions across the country last year, with severe heat wave claiming the largest chunk of the total deaths at 40 per cent, followed by flooding and lightning.
England need to bowl West Indies out cheaply and try to force a follow-on to have any chance of winning the second Test, said seamer Sam Curran
Sebastian Vettel clocked a best lap in one minute and 40.464 seconds to outpace nearest rival and championship leader Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes by 0.272s.
Thanks to freezing temperatures, strong winds and water, 24-year-old Justin Yelen's Mitsubishi is now an ice sculpture.
This divisiveness is upsetting social cohesion and can throw the bright young people thronging to Bengaluru with billion dollar ideas in their creative minds off balance, warns Shekhar Gupta.
The national capital battled weather conditions in the "red category" as the maximum temperature recorded at the Palam observatory was 46.1C,
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Locust swarms can vary from less than one square kilometre to several hundred square kilometres. There can be at least 40 million and sometimes as many as 80 million locust adults in each square kilometre of swarm. Here's everything you need to know about the latest threat to India from the skies.
'... to be a part of the IPL, if you can come and do well in that hopefully then leading up to the World Cup, can only put in a good frame of mind because we have quite a few players playing in that.'
Dravid was the last Indian captain to win a Test series in England.
If India is to urbanise successfully, it has to focus on Tier 2 cities with a population of one-five million, observes T N Ninan.
Dietician Komal Jethmalani provides expert help.
With mercury level soaring, Kerala is likely to face drought-like situation amid fears of drinking water scarcity and power crisis in the poll-bound state as water bodies are fast drying up.
Ashwin spoke about how WTC has provided a context to Test cricket and would love to see more traditional format games in neutral venues.
Images from across Europe and parts of Asia show hot and bothered people dunking their feet in buckets of ice and wading into the sea as sweltering temperatures put some areas on red alert.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma answers your health queries.
'Urbanisation results in heavy rainfall events.'
Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
A woman known only as Jeanne on Twitter called out the Muse d'Orsay in Paris, France for "double standards" after being initially denied entry to the museum because she was wearing a low-cut dress.
Gavaskar is currently in Southampton with first-hand knowledge about the pitch and conditions for the match starting June 18.
The weather office forecasts monsoon rains to be above average this year after the droughts ravaged crops and worsened rural distress
The latest forecast, given by Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh, was a downward revision from a previous forecast of 93 per cent given at the outset of the monsoon in June, but was nowhere near as bad some farmers had feared.
'The question often being asked is whether the demand for petrol and diesel is price inelastic?' asks Arun Balakrishnan, former chairman and managing director, Hindustan Petroleum.
Parts of south, east and northeast India are expected to get some relief from the blistering heat, with the onset of monsoon expected to take place over Kerala on Saturday.
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Former pace spearhead Zaheer Khan feels the month-long preparatory time for the Indian players ahead of the tough five-Test series against hosts England this summer will be sufficient to get used to the weather conditions there.
For the fourth consecutive day, Monday, the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway remained closed for traffic in the wake of landslides at some places, even as higher reaches in Kashmir received fresh snowfall overnight.
Ashutosh Topey, an IT professional from Hyderabad takes us through his recent Himalayan adventure trek.
More than a dozen male train drivers in Sweden have found a way to get around their company's no-shorts dress code in hot summer months -- they wear skirts.
Here are other key moments and athletes to look out for at Tokyo 2020 when the sport gets underway in earnest on Saturday
Jasprit Bumrah will have to squeeze every ounce of energy from his already overworked body, while Ajinkya Rahane will hope to get one final chance to save his international career when India take on England in the fifth and final Test, chasing a historic series win, in Manchester on Friday.
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