New Delhi: India is likely to get above-average rainfall in July as the monsoon has picked up momentum, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. There is an 80 per cent probability of normal…
New Delhi: India Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over Northwest India including Delhi & the Northeast states during the next 4-5 days. IMD also said that the Southwest Monsoon has…
New Delhi: A team of US researchers on Monday said that a major earthquake of magnitude 7 or 8 around 2,500 years ago changed the course of the Ganga River and a densely-populated region in…
New Delhi: Heatwave to severe heatwave conditions are likely to continue over many parts of North India during the next two days and gradually abate thereafter under the influence of approaching Western Disturbance towards Northwest…
New Delhi: Use of chemical fertilisers and animal waste on croplands soared deadly emissions of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane — by 40 per cent between 1980…
New Delhi: India has added two bird sanctuaries from Bihar — Nagi and Nakti — to the ‘Ramsar Sites’ list, taking the tally to 82, according to a top official. The newest ‘Wetlands of International…
Agra: Ahead of World Environment Day on June 5, the stark reality of Agra’s environmental crisis has come into sharp focus. Despite the Supreme Court’s 1993 intervention on the petition by MC Mehta, to protect…
New Delhi: The southwest monsoon has arrived simultaneously in Kerala and the northeastern states on Thursday, two days ahead of its expected date of June 1. “Southwest monsoon has set in over Kerala and advanced…
New Delhi: The national capital on Wednesday recorded its highest-ever temperature of the season as the mercury soared to 52.3 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The weather station recorded the temperature at Mungeshpur in…
New Delhi: A heat wave will sweep across most of the states in the country in June, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast on Monday. “Above-normal monthly maximum temperatures are likely over most parts of…
