Cyclone Yaas intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm on Tuesday evening, India Meteorological Department Director General M Mohapatra said, even as the states of West Bengal, Odisha and......
Mala, Helen, Nargis and Nilofer may sound like the names of yesteryear Bollywood actors, but they are, in fact, lethal cyclones that have brought violent winds, heavy rains and wreaked destruction.......
Heat waves in the country are turning out to be particularly deadly with over 4,620 recorded deaths caused by the severe weather condition in the last four years. Of that figure, a whopping 4,246......
The onset of monsoon over Kerala is likely to be delayed by six days beyond its scheduled date of June 1, the India Meteorological Department said in its latestforecast on Sunday. This is expected......
Chennai on Wednesday turned a virtual island and coastal areas of Tamil Nadu were marooned after unprecedented rains in 100 years pounded the city, its suburbs and neighbouring districts destroying......
At a time when rural India is looking at a gloomy picture on account of crop damage due to unseasonal rain, the forecast of a poorer monsoon is not good news. L S Rathore, director general of the......
Four days after missing its date with the country, the crucial South West Monsoon has finally hit Kerala. "South West Monsoon has arrived," Indian Meteorological Department Director General L S......
Rainfall in the week ended August 29 was about six per cent more than normal and the best weekly rains in the southwest monsoon season this year. This helped ease concern on drought across several......