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New Delhi, Sep 18 (ANI): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that late end-season rains will help India’s winter crops.

Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Pawar said, “It’s true that because paddy area transplantation has been dropped, but the late rains are very helpful particularly for [...]

Kupwara (J-K), Sep 4 (ANI): Facing acute shortage of potable water, the villagers are forced to drink polluted water in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.

A prolonged drought-like situation has further added woes to the villagers.

Everyday, women cover long distances to fetch [...]

Datia (Madhya Pradesh), Aug. 9(ANI): Farmers are a worried lot in Madhya Pradesh’s Datia district as they are experiencing acute water scarcity, which has been further aggravated by deficit rainfall leading to a drought like situation in the region.

“Due to inadequate rains we are sitting idle. [...]

New Delhi, July 10 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today warned that, North India facing drought-like situation, and states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi might face serious problems due to scarcity [...]

Various in Karnataka, July 5 (ANI): Water crisis looms large over Karnataka, as delayed arrival of monsoon has led to drying up of water levels in 81 crucial reservoirs in the state.

A data recently released by the State Government showed water levels in all the state reservoirs at just 44 per cent of water [...]

Jalpaiguri/Shimla, July 3 (ANI): After a long dry spell, farmers in different parts of the country finally heaved a sigh of relief as the monsoons arrived.

The onset of monsoons in Jalpaiguri in West Bengal raised hopes for the farmers waiting to sow their crops.

The region received almost 300 mm of rainfall in the past [...]

Kolkata, June 28 (ANI): After enduring a long spell of scorching heat and apprehensions over the delayed monsoon, people in central and eastern parts of the country are hailing the first showers of monsoon.

In Patna, people were seen dancing to the tunes of raindrops while the street children enjoyed splashing in the waterlogged streets.

People termed [...]

Patna, June 27 (ANI): Following a delayed monsoon, people in Bihar have turned anxious and want the God to bless them with rains.

On Saturday, various Hindus and Muslims held special prayers to invoke divine powers of the Rain Gods who, they believe, have decided to give the region a miss.

Residents said while incessant [...]

Chandigarh, June 27 (ANI): In a bid to conserve electricity, the Punjab Government has asked all the government-run offices to do without air conditioners for the time being.

The initiative has been taken to provide eight hours of uninterrupted power supply to the farmers during the paddy-sowing season.

“We have learnt about it from the item [...]

Abohar (Punjab), June 27 (ANI): Farmers in Punjab are worried a lot, as they fear low produce due to delayed monsoon.

With only 40 percent of farmland irrigated, most of small farmers rely on the monsoon to water their crops.

“The orchards have wilted due to delay in rains. I fear that the fruits will fall [...]

Bhopal, June 27 (ANI): Muslims in Bhopal offered Namaaz-e-Istasqa (Namaaz to ask for rain) as most of northern India reeled under drought-like situation due to delayed monsoon.

Thousands of Muslims gathered at city’s Eidgah (an open-air mosque) and offered special prayers seeking early [...]

Bhubaneshwar, June 26 (ANI): People of Orissa can take a sigh of relief as the much-awaited monsoon touched its southern coast, and will cover entire state in a day or two, say officials.

“Monsoon has delayed, actually because earlier its ONSET was on 25th May. Now monsoon has revived and [...]

Ahmedabad, June 25(ANI): The meteorological department declared on Thursday that the monsoon has set over Gujarat except for the Central and Northern districts of the state, with heavy rainfall being predicted in Saurashtra within next 24 hours.

“Now we can say that in Gujarat, monsoon has set in the [...]

Allahabad, June 25 (ANI): Women ploughed fields and sang songs in a ritual to appease the rain gods in Allahabad.

Fervently praying for the timely arrival of the monsoon, people across the country are performing various rituals to appease the rain God.

“All of us together performed rituals with flowers and incense sticks. Together we ploughed [...]

New Delhi, June 25 (ANI): Union Agriculture Secretary T Nanda Kumar will meet Agriculture Secretaries of states on Thursday to discuss the situation arising due to delayed monsoon.

Agriculture Secretaries of states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh will meet to consider measures to deal with the situation.n Wednesday, Union Minister for [...]

New Delhi, May 25 (ANI): The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that the cyclonic storm “AILA” is likely to intensify further and move in a near northerly direction and ross West Bengal coast near longitude 88.00 [...]

Guwahati, Apr 26 (ANI): An earthquake measuring four on the Richter scale shook Guwahati, Shillong and other parts of North Eastern India on Sunday morning.

There were no reports of any loss to life and property.

According to the Meteorological department, the quake was felt in several parts of the region at 7: 59 a.m. and the [...]

Kolkata, Apr 21 (ANI): Soaring mercury levels made life miserable for people in Kolkata as they grapple with the heat wave.he scorching heat has made life miserable for those who have no option but to work in the sun.

“I have never [...]

Dhaka – Authorities in Bangladesh on Thursday alerted coastal residents about an intensifying cyclone in the central Bay of Bengal, officials said.
The Meteorological Department advised coastal residents and crews on fishing boats in the bay to be cautious after the deep depression over the south-east and central Bay of Bengal turned into a cyclone early [...]

Washington, Apr 15 (ANI): Only half the people understand what a forecast means when it predicts a 20 percent chance of rain, according to researchers at the University of Washington.

Susan Joslyn, a UW cognitive psychologist and senior lecturer, has revealed that the majority of people think it means that it will rain over 20 percent [...]