Nearly two-thirds of the country have received deficient or scanty rains this season as monsoon appeared set to miss its date with Delhi.

According to data released by the weather office on Tuesday,

India's crucial monsoon will be normal in 2012 but with less heavier rains as the weather office on Friday marginally downgraded its earlier forecast.

"Quantitatively, monsoon season rainfall fo

India's crucial monsoon rains are slightly delayed but not yet a worry for farming, the head of the weather office said on Thursday, after almost all parts of the country received lower than average r

For Coimbatore-resident A. Pranav, who reached Chennai on Tuesday, it was a pleasant surprise to get drenched in rain. “I was apprehensive of the scorching heat in Chennai.

But it turned out to be l

Active monsoon over Kerala, Telangana and coastal Andhra Pradesh has brought some respite to Chennaiites from the sweltering heat. The temperature, which lingered around 40 degree Celsius in the first

A powerful typhoon bringing heavy rain and strong winds was expected to make landfall in western Japan later on Tuesday, the weather agency said, as flights were cancelled and evacuations advised.

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The Army and police on Saturday rescued 400 civilians trapped in landslides at Khardung La Pass, the world's highest motorable road.

The civilians, including women and children, in 150 vehicles were

Heat wave conditions continued to prevail in the southern districts of West Bengal with 48 persons succumbing to the heat till Wednesday, official reports from the districts said.

Fifteen deaths were

South-west monsoon, the key to the agriculture driven trillion-dollar Indian economy, today brought showers to Kerala bringing much-needed relief to farmers.

"Monsoon has reached Kerala," a top India

Weather conditions are 'becoming favourable' for the arrival of India's 2012 monsoon rains over the Kerala coast in 48 hours, state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a statement on Mon