Nepal deploys Army to evacuate residents from floodplains as rivers swell following heavy downpourNepal has deployed the army, Armed Police Force, and regular police to evacuate residents from flood-prone areas in the Kathmandu Valley af...
04 Oct, 2025, 09.14 PM IST
IMD warns of sharp temperature rise up to 5°C across these parts of India: Check full details to prepare for scorching daysThe India Meteorological Department forecasts a rise in maximum temperatures by 2-4 degrees Celsius across most parts of India in the comin...
24 Mar, 2025, 12.50 PM IST
117 dead in Assam floods till now this year; toll over 5 years 880: MHA informs Rajya SabhaReplying to a question in Rajya Sabha by MP Sushmita Dev, Minister of State of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Thursday stated that, as per i...
02 Aug, 2024, 11.33 AM IST
Hyderabad Authorities developing early warning system for flood with the help of IITHyderabad Municipal Corporation's Enforcement Vigilance & Disaster Management (EVDM) wing, in collaboration with IIT-Hyderabad, is developi...
21 Dec, 2023, 04.18 PM IST
1 dead, 25 missing as floods, landslides wreak havoc in Eastern NepalHeavy downpours have resulted in flooding and landslides in eastern Nepal with 25 people unaccounted for and one confirmed dead. The incide...
18 Jun, 2023, 09.52 AM IST
- The Heat Is On
India has established a national framework for heat action plans through the National Disaster Management Authority that coordinates a netw...
18 May, 2022, 11.11 PM IST
Covid impact: Weather forecasts hit turbulence on grounded jetsQuality of forecasts as meteorological information from aeroplanes has fallen up to 90%.
09 May, 2020, 08.36 AM IST
Odisha government mulls SpiceJet offer to start sea plane servicesThe instructions, issued by Chief Secretary A P Padhi, comes days after the low-cost carrier and AAI evinced interest in rolling out water ...
26 Jun, 2018, 01.34 PM IST
Flood may have been caused by heavy rain in China: Assam ministerAssam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said the devastating flood in the north-eastern state was possibly caused due to heavy rainfall in...
23 Aug, 2017, 10.02 PM IST
Mobile app soon for passing on information on water levelsThe application would ease the existing process of manually reading the water levels and communicating it to higher authorities.
05 Jul, 2015, 11.29 AM IST
2014 mild meteorological drought: Skymet; Not so, says MeT departmentMET department has refused to call it a "drought" despite the country receiving 12 per cent less rainfall than the normal precipitation.
01 Oct, 2014, 05.53 PM IST
Indian satellite INSAT-3D all set for launch early tomorrow"INSAT-3D is essentially for meteorological applications, Chairman of Indian Space research Organisation K Radhakrishnan said.
25 Jul, 2013, 03.10 PM IST
Everest losing its snow ice coverResearchers have found that glaciers in the Mount Everest region including the Sagarmatha national park that surrounds the peak, have shrun...
14 May, 2013, 01.10 PM IST
- Vietnam coffee harvest to drop 9.4% on dry weather
Coffee production in Vietnam is poised to decline from a record as dry weather cuts yields, bolstering prices.
12 Oct, 2012, 06.00 AM IST
- ET in the classroom: When does government declare drought?
Even though the share of agriculture in the country’s GDP is declining, a year of poor rainfall means acute hardship for farmers which, in ...
12 Jul, 2012, 03.26 AM IST
- 'Annual mean temperature for country has risen by .52 degree'
Annual mean temperature for the country as a whole has risen by .52 degree celsius in the past 107 years since 1901, according to a data an...
20 Jul, 2009, 07.40 PM IST
- Why does govt shy away from declaring a drought?
Could this be a drought year? Could some parts of the country be affected by drought? Answers to such questions went unanswered even as ear...
25 Jun, 2009, 05.29 AM IST