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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicMonsoons

Topic: monsoons

In SC affidavit, govt calls for tailor-made assessments of carrying capacity of hill stations

Environment ministry says 13 Himalayan states must submit action plan following guidelines. Affidavit in response to Noida resident's PIL on hill stations in ecologically fragile areas.

Scientists have found East Asian Monsoon is over 145 million yrs old, predates Himalayas

Earlier, the general consensus was that monsoon came into being around 23 million years ago.

India can expect normal monsoons as El Nino effect stays weak

The El Nino weather phenomenon, which creates an abnormal warming of the Pacific Ocean, tends to lower rainfall during India’s monsoons.

Monsoons expected to arrive 5 days later, hit Kerala on June 6, says IMD

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a late onset of monsoon, which normally hits Kerala on June 1 and marks the start of the four-month rainy season.

Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago

Indian summer monsoon which was highly sensitive in the past also helped end the ice age.

India’s oil import addiction is the slick to the economy

The country’s reliance on monsoon and oil prices equals a not so sunny current account deficit.

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The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.