Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Greeshma Gopal Giri | ENS MERE spattering, brief spells will not suffice for certain parts of Ambattur Municipality this year; the prayers are for heavy rain. Delayed monsoon has led to wells drying up and groundwater level getting depleted. Water scarcity is particularly acute in the localities in and around …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The much-awaited northeast monsoon, the usual date of onset of which is October 20, is likely to break over Tamil Nadu in a day or two. Deputy Director-General of Meteorology Y.E.A. Raj told The?Hindu on Monday that going by the output of dynamical models, the onset was …
Oct. 22: Even as India and other countries quibble about how to handle climate change and who should cut what percentage of carbon emissions, the damaging effects of global warming are being felt right in our own backyard. Scientists attribute the extreme climate patterns in Andhra Pradesh this year
The Southwest Monsoon has withdrawn from the NE region. This was announced by the India Meteorology Department (IMD) yesterday. According to sources in the Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here, the South West Monsoon withdrew from Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Vidarbha, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada and Konkan, entire West Bengal and Sikkim, Orissa, …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS NORTHEAST MONSOON SHOULD HAVE ARRIVED ON OCTOBER 20, BUT MET OFFICE SAYS IT IS NOT EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT 72 HOURS THE Northeast monsoon is not expected to hit Tamil Nadu on its usual date of October 20, but the Met office isn't pressing the panic …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The state agriculture department has started a crop survey (annawari) to estimate loss of standing crop due to delay in monsoon and deficit rains in several pockets in the state. Officials in the agriculture department said that the
This document contains the Presentation made by Krishna Kumar, IITM-Pune, to Shri Jairam Ramesh, Hon. Minister of Environment and Forests, on 14 Oct. 2009 in New Delhi. The presentation is focused on the impact of climate change on India
Sample this. For October 1, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) average rain forecast over Raichur district was 27 mm. However, the district was rainwashed with an unprecedented downpour of 198 mm on that day. Similarly, over Bellary, IMD forecast for October 2 was 68 mm, while the actual incidence recorded …
The embankments by the rivers of Rupsha and Shibsa are swarmed with temporary shelters housing the people affected by Cyclone Aila. Blue and orange plastic sheeting over their shabby make-shift huts can be seen from miles away while people sit idle waiting for the water to recede. Nobody imagined that …
JAIPUR: A public hearing on climate change and food security in the drought-prone regions in the country, being organised here on November 4, will throw light on the adverse impact of environmental degradation on the livelihood of rural people and the steady decline in the area under indigenous cultivation. About …
The deficiency and uneven distribution of rainfall during the 2009 monsoon has brought several issues to the fore: rising water demand from various sectors, regional effects of a drought and the failure of the India Meteorological Department to provide credible forecasts at the disaggregate level. A multi-pronged strategy to permanently …
CHENNAI: A normal or above normal north-east monsoon is expected this year, Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Ajit Tyagi, Director-General, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said here on Thursday. Speaking to reporters after inaugurating the High Performance Computing System at the Regional Meteorological Centre, Dr. Tyagi said that the monsoon was expected …
What do periods of weak low-latitude rainfall have to do with the meltdown of great ice sheets? Cheng et al. show that this counterintuitive association contains a hot clue about the much-debated causes of the ice age cycles that end every 100,000 years or so in a collapse of the …
230Th-dated oxygen isotope records of stalagmites from SanbaoCave, China, characterize Asian Monsoon (AM) precipitation throughthe ends of the third- and fourthmost recent ice ages. As aresult, AM records for the past four glacial terminations cannow be precisely correlated with those from ice cores and marinesediments, establishing the timing and sequence …
Saubhadro Chatterji / Both Bodan (yavatmal, Maharashtra) October 05, 2009, 0:34 IST The dish TV antennas on asbestos or even thatched roofs bring colour pictures in this village.
The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Committee in its latest estimates have projected that during the current financial year, agriculture could experience minus two % growth. However, in a year when the monsoon deficit has been 23%, the highest since 1972 and when drought has been declared in 299 districts during …
Economic growth in the five year period from 2004/05 to 2008/09, despite the crisis-affected year of 2008/09, was at an average of 8.5 per cent. This clearly represented an acceleration in the pace of growth and marks a distinct break from any previous five year period. Per capita GDP grew …
Marking a distinct break from the past the economy grew at an average of 8.5 per cent and the per capita GDP at 6.9 per cent in the five-year period from 2004/05 to 2008/09, despite the crisis-affected year of 2008/09. The Indian economy weathered the financial turbulence well and grew …
Climate change has become the defining issue of our time. It is a quintessential global matter, since its effects respect no national or regional boundaries. Climate change is also a challenge that compels a global and collaborative response. We are all literally in the same boat, cast adrift in increasingly …
