Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Salboni Apartment Owner’s Association Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to restoration of the Salboni Jheel, Kolkata, West Bengal. The NGT directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to place …
Met officials predicted very heavy rainfall over coastal AP during the next 48 hours. Visakhapatnam: The deep depression over west-central and adjoining south-west Bay of Bengal moved nearly northwards and lay centred 120 km east south-east of Nellore and 230 km south of Machilipatam. The system is likely to continue …
The southwest monsoon is likely to set over Kerala on June 7, says IMD The onset of the southwest monsoon over Kerala is likely to be delayed from the normal date of June 1, the weather office said, the first negative signal since it forecast above-normal rainfall this season after …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government on Monday declared an early summer vacation for schools as the blistering conditions prevailing across the State showed no sign of a let-up while the predictions for next one week are not encouraging either. The classes, which had been suspended till April 26 due to the …
The present study examines the role of tropical cyclones in the enhancement of tropospheric ozone. The most significant and new observation reported is the increase in the upper-tropospheric (10–16 km) ozone by 20–50 ppbv, which has extended down to the middle (6–10 km) and lower troposphere ( < 6 km). …
As we finish using an aesthetically designed tube of toothpaste, face wash or face wash, thousands of microbeads and microplastics would have mixed with the water systems, thereby causing serious environmental damage. More than 455 billion plastic microbe ads and 749 billion microplastics have been released into the Indian ocean …
This study unravels the physical link between the weakening of the monsoon circulation and the decreasing trend in the frequency of monsoon depressions over the Bay of Bengal. Based on the analysis of the terms of Genesis Potential Index, an empirical index to quantify the relative contribution of large scale …
Caught in India-China race to tap power potential of Brahmaputra As India and China race to tap — or literally dam — the 97,000-MW hydro-power potential of the Brahmaputra/Tsangpo river, the people of Arunachal Pradesh look askance. They have two issues. First, there is no water-sharing treaty between the two …
Smoke plumes from this region contain carbon aerosols that play a vital role in determining atmospheric chemistry. A recent study has found that burning stubble, practiced in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and surrounding regions, affect the air as far as the Arabian Sea and, to a lesser extent, the Bay …
Tamil Nadu continued to experience monsoon fury, with heavy rain pounding various parts of the state under the influence of a well marked low pressure area over Bay of Bengal, as the death toll from rain-related incidents climbed to 59. There seemed to be no respite from the downpour with …
Cuddalore receives 266mm rainfall in two days Even as the death toll in rain-related incidents in the district, which bore the brunt of nature’s fury following a depression over the Bay of Bengal on Monday, rose to 27, receding floodwater offers survivors the hope of speedy rehabilitation. With the floodwaters …
Upper-air radiosonde observations, taken during “Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement EXperiment” (CAIPEEX) at Mahabubnagar (16.73°N, 77.98°E) under Integrated Ground Observation Campaign (IGOC) during the second half of southwest monsoon of 2011 have been analysed. Various weather data taken from India Meteorological Department as well as NCEP/NCAR reanalyzed upper-air wind …
Monsoon rains have revived in the worst-hit central India and southern peninsula regions that would help boost kharif crops and water level in reservoirs, a top official of the Met department said on Wednesday. Monsoon deficit has been at 12 per cent so far this season (June 1 to September …
The ongoing dry spell, which was expected to continue till August end, may get extended to the first week of September. A recent extended range forecast of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) states that the El Nino effect may dominate the remaining days of August and first week …
CM cuts short London trip as state deals with emergency-like situation. High velocity storms have flattened hundreds of houses, rendered over 800 people homeless and injured at least 12 people in three districts of West Bengal. Parts of Howrah, Burdwan and Nadia have also been affected owing to cyclone and …
The Bengal Basin evolved as a rift-controlled extensional basin along the NNE–SSW trending Basin Margin Fault coevally with the 85 East Ridge in the Bay of Bengal during the short-lived hotspot activity south of Bhubaneswar. The basin opening post-dated the Kereguelen Plume magmatism (at ~116 Ma), but predated the phase …
A positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) may have already begun to play out, according to the Applications Laboratory of Jamstec, the Japanese national weather forecaster. The positive phase of the IOD represents anomalous warming of the western basin of the Indian Ocean (adjoining the Arabian Sea). This …
Nagpur: Only negligible rainfall has been recorded across Vidarbha in the first fortnight of July. This has led to five out of 11 districts of the region, and the region as a whole, becoming rainfall deficient. Shortage of rains has left farmers worried about the seeds sowed recently for the …
The monsoon is likely to remain strong through the month of June, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday, as another storm system developed over the Bay of Bengal, promising widespread rain across central and south India over the next four-five days. As on June 18, the monsoon was 10% …
Pre-monsoon rains, however, cover most parts of north eastern states, Kerala and Karnataka The monsoon is likely to hit mainland India only on Friday ,a week later than the earlier predictions, even as heat wave conditions prevail in several parts of the country . “Looking at the current scenario, we …
Why this weird weather? Why have western disturbances - the extra-tropical storms that originate in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic oceans - been lashing us again and again, with devastating impacts on agriculture? Is this normal? Or has weird weather become the new definition of normal? The India Meteorological Department …
