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What is El Niño and how does it affect India? Could it bring a drought-like monsoon and higher grocery bills?El Niño conditions are now active in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, raising concerns for India's monsoon. Warmer Pacific waters disrupt weat...
El Nino sets in, clouds kharif outlookEl Nino conditions have set in and may strengthen during the southwest monsoon, raising concerns for India's largest sowing window. The neu...
Monsoon advances into Bengal, Sikkim; set to cover more of Andhra, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra this weekThe southwest monsoon is progressing steadily across India. It has now covered Sikkim and parts of Northeast India. The India Meteorologica...
Science at scale: India’s journey from food security to global leadershipToday, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices; the largest exporter of rice; and among the leading producers of ...
Weather swings, monsoon risks, and the growing threat to mango, apple cropsThe agriculture industry has evolved historically through adaptation and resilience, and now it is time to speed up this transformation, em...
India’s scorching nights strain power grid and threaten healthIndia faces a dual threat from dangerously hot summers and increasingly sweltering nights, exacerbated by global warming and urban heat isl...
Macro, the Mightiest: Why India’s biggest macro variable still falls from the skyThe 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...
El Nino threat: Centre rolls out kharif contingency plan to shield cropsAgriculture ministry has directed states to prepare district-wise crop strategies, and promote short-duration crops such as pulses, certain...
Global consumer companies stay bullish on IndiaGlobal consumer firms are seeing strong demand in India. Companies like Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Pernod Ricard, Reckitt Benckiser, and Carlsber...
Maharashtra govt braces for possible El Nino impact, Fadnavis calls for effective water management
Strong monsoon, rising wages, and govt spending fuel rural economy recovery: ReportRural India's economy is recovering. Monsoon season started strong. Rural wages are rising as inflation decreases. Government spending is i...
Uneven rainfall disrupts pulses, horticulture, and rice productionRainfall during the ongoing southwest monsoon season covered up for the deficiency in the initial phase, reaching an excess of 7.3% as of A...
Berger Paints Q2 Results: Firm misses estimate on delayed festivals, poor monsoonBerger Paints India on Thursday reported lower-than-expected second-quarter earnings, as a weak monsoon and delayed festivities offset cool...
India's monsoon to start its retreat in next two daysIndia's monsoon season is set to enter its withdrawal phase in the next two days, the state-run weather office said on Monday, after a vigo...
Explainer-India's economic outlook at the mercy of monsoonAsia's third-largest economy and the world's top producer of a host of critical crops such as rice, wheat and sugar has received 11% more t...
Southwest monsoon hits Kerala coastRainfall will also be well distributed across the country, with only the northeastern region forecast to get slightly lower rainfall, the I...
Pilot project to use DG sets for solar installationsA pilot project has been taken up to use diesel generator to smoothen out erratic electricity supply from solar power installations in West...
- Jain Irrigation net soars 200 pc on forex gains
Jain Irrigation today said its net profit surged 200 per cent to Rs 36 crore on a standalone basis in the September quarter on the back of ...
- Worry lines deepen on monsoon, farm fears
Key concern is the 47% probability assigned to normal monsoon, well below the 53% last year when the rainfall was normal but its distributi...
- Enough food stock to check price rise due to poor rains: PMEAC
Dismissing apprehensions of any spurt in foodgrain prices on account of poor monsoon, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council on Wed...