IMD predicts the Northeast will once again receive less-than-average rainfall, but north-western, central & southern parts of India will have a normal monsoon.
Kerala monsoon brings with it a spurt in communicable diseases such as dengue, leptospirosis and ordinary fever that could up the mortality risk of Covid patients.
In an online briefing, IMD Director General M. Mohapatra said the Long Period Average (LPA) of monsoon will be 100 per cent which falls in the ‘normal’ category.
Farmers of Aurangabad district, who struggled with alarmingly low rainfall this year, also lost a major part of their crop due to insect infestation last year.
The rains will increase global output through India, the world's largest cotton producer, at a time prices have been near their weakest in more than 3 years.
The IMD said this could be the longest recorded delayed withdrawal of the rain-bearing winds as monsoon remains active over several parts of the country.
When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.
While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.
In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
COMMENTS