The 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...

Forecasters warn a powerful Super El Niño, similar to the one causing the 1876-1878 famine, could develop in 2026. This event is linked to ...

The Internal Revenue Service offers tax relief to farmers and ranchers. This is for those who sold livestock due to drought. The relief cov...

The JDS had constituted a Raitha Santwana Yatre to assess the drought situation across the state last month, and presented the report to th...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the state government will pay the first installment of crop loss compensation, up to R...

The government, the minister said, had placed Aadhaar-lined alternate data sets to substantiate that 70% of farmers in Karnataka were small...

"I demand the chief minister to come out of the festive mode and immediately start carrying out a survey and make arrangements to provide r...

"In the review meeting of Jharkhand State Disaster Management Authority regarding drought, it was decided to declare 226 blocks of 22 distr...

Kumaraswamy requested Modi to expedite the process to release Rs 2,064.30 crore for drought relief and mitigation, the statement said.

A HLC approved the assistance from the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) in respect of Karnataka to the tune of Rs 795.54 crore, an offi...

Maharashtra BJP has directed all the party's MLAs, MLCs and MPs in the state to shoulder the responsibility for tackling drought in affecte...

This is the second consecutive year when the country faced drought. Though the Kharif sown area this year was higher than last year, defici...

The state government should sanction an interim relief of Rs 10,000 per acre to farmers hit by drought in the affected regions.

Sushil Kumar Modi today assailed the Nitish Kumar government for delaying assessment of damage of crops due to drought situation.

Centre has framed guidelines for providing relief from NDRF and SDRF in the event of natural calamities, Agriculture Minister Pawar said.

The drought-hit Tamil Nadu today decided to knock the Centre's doors with a plea for an assistance of Rs 19,665.13 crore.

Through UP's worst affected drought years 2002 and 2004 other farmers received even lesser drought compensation.