India is likely to receive average monsoon rains this year, Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Thursday, forecasting a third straight year without drought.
Rains during the June-September season
India's monsoon rains are likely to be within long-term averages in 2012, the weather office head said on Monday, reassuring farmers ahead of next week's official forecast from New Delhi.
Nature succeeds where man fails’. After a torrent of bad news — from falling economic growth numbers to persistent inflation general anti-tax avoidance rules to high crude oil
Government today said it had launched the monsoon mission programme to help improve forecast of the annual rainfall season, an initiative that would benefit millions of farmers.
"The Monsoon Mission
India's monsoon rains were 14 percent above normal in the week to Aug 10, improving sharply from 22 percent below average the week before, the weather office said on Thursday,
Although the southwest monsoon covered the entire country on July 9, a week earlier than the usual July 15, India’s total rainfall was 2 per cent below normal, according to
India's monsoon rains are likely to ease next week, sources in the state-run weather office said on Friday, raising concerns there could be a slowdown in planting of crops such
The forecast of 'below normal' monsoon rains does not pose "too much threat" to food inflation so long as the country's central part receives close to normal rains, a top
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