Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the meeting, attended by representatives of all parties, including Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha...

CM expressed regret that the state had to undergo a "political drought" after the PDP demitted office in 2005 and the whole process had to ...

"For any such treaty to work, it is important there must be mutual trust and cooperation. It cannot be a one-sided affair," Swarup said.

The biggest increase this year has been seen in Karnataka, which saw a whopping 265% jump from its quarterly target of 2.48 crore person-da...

Moved by the plight of drought-hit people in Marathwada, students have pooled in Rs 20 lakh as their contribution towards providing succour.

"Poor people are selling their children for money and activists are being murdered. The media is only concentrating on the Sheena murder ca...

The extent of the loss of rabi crop was communicated to the finance minister Arun Jaitley by the agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh in ...

"Let me inform the House again that it is not the effort of just the state government or the central government, it is the combined effort,...

In a discussion on situation like floods in J&K, cyclone in AP and Odisha Opposition says that the government was less than prepared to fac...

MET department has refused to call it a "drought" despite the country receiving 12 per cent less rainfall than the normal precipitation.

The forecast came even as IMD this evening said the monsoon rainfall a whole during June 2014 was below normal by 43 per cent.

The weather office predicts monsoon showers in northern India in a few days, calming concerns of farmers after a parched June.

IMD forecasts that maximum temperature would rise by 2-3°C over many parts of central & adjoining northwest India and by 1-2°C over some pa...

Guruvayur temple has signed one-year contract with JKAIDC to purchase 10 kg of saffron spice at Rs 1.20 lakh per kg, every month.

Monsoon is still active in the northwest region which spans across J&K, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan & UP.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today approved three months' free ration for drought-hit families of Kishtwar and Doda distr...

NHPC's power generation capacity declined by 200 million units since April due to erratic monsoons this year.