The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted normal monsoon conditions for the month of July across the country, except for par...

"Farmers in several parts of the country, where there is a deficiency of rainfall, are in a wait-and-see situation," said Santosh Jhanwar, ...

Under the influence of west-northwestward movement of a likely low pressure area or its remnant cyclonic circulation, fairly widespread to ...

IMD forecasts monsoon will remain normal for the rest of the season. However, concerns around kharif sowing persist mainly because of uneve...

The slide for pulses is -10.1%, while it has so far been -15.5% for cereals and -10.4% for oilseeds. The area sown under paddy has dipped b...

The report said that the southwest monsoon arrived in India on June 3, signalling a good start to the kharif 2021 season. As on June 23, mo...

Kharif planting now 8.6% lower than a year ago, an improvement from a shortfall of 26.5% a week ago.

Outside Kerala and coastal Andhra, half the districts in south India are grappling with deficient rainfall.

The Union government approved Rs 791 crore for Telangana as central assistance to help the state cope with the drought situation which it i...

The MeT department has projected 16 per cent deficiency in the remaining two months of the four-month season, that is, in August and Septem...

Water level in reservoir in Andhra Pradesh ,Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra below normal even as weather office said 73 per cent of In...

Total crop plantings at 98.66 million hectares for the week ending September 5 were still 3% below the level this time last year, according...

Rainfall shortage in the state on Tuesday was 64%. In 18 of its 21 districts it was below 50%. Haryana had last declared drought in 2002 .

Data from the IMD showed 53% of the country with 19 out of 36 subdivisions received normal rainfall this season.

Local media has reported that 100 farmers had committed suicide in Telangana alone where farmers have gone for replanting of cotton and red...

So far, rainfall is 19% to 24% deficit in the central, southern and eastern parts of the country. In the north and northwest regions, the d...

Low rainfall in southern and western regions is likely to be made up in next two months, or else rice, cotton and pulses production would b...