The Hindu
| 10 months ago
India's crucial monsoon is expected to be 15 per cent deficient this season, the weather office said on Friday, the first indication of a drought in three years. The country has received 20 per cent less rains than normal since the delayed onset of...
Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics A farmer ploughs his field to sow millet seeds against the backdrop of pre-monsoon clouds at Shapur village in the western Indian state of Gujarat June 24, 2012. A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already...
International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Reuters Triggering concerns of poor farm output and higher inflation, India 's weather office predicted less rain in June-to-September, which is 15 percent below the seasonal average. "We expect 15% shortfall in the seasonal rains," L S Rathore,...
DAWN
| 10 months ago
India's monsoon rains that lash the country each summer arrived late and have been feeble this year, leading to hardship for hundreds of millions of farmers like 61-year-old Rameshwar Dayal. The much-romanticised annual downpour that normally sweeps...
