Tamil Nadu is reported to have received only 10 per cent excess rain so far this monsoon, with a number of districts reeling with deficit rainfall.

Dr Y.E.A. Raj, deputy director general of meteorolo

Tamil Nadu is reported to have received only 10 per cent excess rain so far this monsoon, with a number of districts reeling with deficit rainfall.

Dr Y.E.A. Raj, deputy director general of meteorolo

With half the monsoon season gone, the state has received only 10 per cent excess rainfall. Madurai (- 39 per cent) and Tirupur (- 21 per cent) are already reeling under deficit rainfall for the seaso

The monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday.

The monsoon rains could coll

The Northeast monsoon’s first cyclone in 2012, ‘Neelam’, might strike Ta­mil Nadu this week and the Met office has already iss­ued warnings to ports and fishermen.

The previous cyclone, ‘Thane’ that

Chennai is not likely to be monsoon ready even by next year. The Rs 1,447 crore micro and macro drainage project jointly implemented by TNPWD and City Corporation with funding by the Centre has only

With weather models showing low-pressure area moving towards northeast and northwest, there could be some respite from continuous rain in Tamil Nadu starting Thursday.

While heavy rains are expected

Twenty persons have been killed during the two-day rains that lashed various parts of Tamil Nadu. Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, who reviewed the arrangements to tackle the northeast monsoon on Satur

The monsoon is flooding the Chennai roads and thr­owing life out of gear but on the ex­plosive political canvas, the heavy showers have cooled down the tempers — albeit temporarily — for the warring n

Greater Chennai has witnessed four electrocution deaths in the past one month and electricity cables and streetlight wirings in several lowlying areas continue to pose danger to pedestrians. While Tam