-The Financial Express Seasonal showers declined 6% from the long-period average up to August 6 For the first time since the current Monsoon season started in June, the country’s water storage has dropped from both the level a year before and the normal benchmark average, thanks to a slowdown in Monsoon rains since early July. Seasonal showers declined 6% from the long-period average (LPA) up to August 6, worsening from a deficit of...
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Bad Monsoon killing Telangana farmers, crops and water supply
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: The lack of Monsoon rains is spelling doom for Telangana on three fronts: First, a drastic drop in paddy cultivation is set to trigger a massive shortage in rice production; second, with their crops more or less destroyed and the prospect of rains in the near future bleak, farmers are resorting to suicides; and thirdly, plummeting water levels at Nagarjunsagar Dam is threatening to disrupt the...
More »Drought at our doorstep -Koride Mahesh
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Telangana appears to be heading towards a drought. Half of the Monsoon season is over and apart from the initial days of rainfall, the state has had a dry spell. Water levels in reservoirs are dropping rapidly and many towns are facing a drinking water crisis. In rural areas, the crisis is in the form of dying crops and a looming threat of fodder shortage. In fact,...
More »Centre denies plans to build DNA database, but experts fault Bill -Vidya Venkat
-The Hindu The Union government has denied plans to develop a DNA database of citizens, similar to the biometric database of Aadhaar, as feared by many when the Human DNA Profiling Bill was introduced in the Monsoon Session of Parliament. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y.S. Chowdary said the government did not propose to establish a DNA databank of...
More »Dry days: 17% rain deficit in July -Amit Bhattacharya, Vishwa Mohan & Neha Madaan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After a wet June, when other systems had countered the adverse effects of El Nino, Monsoon took a drier turn in July and the month ended with a countrywide rain deficit of 17%. However, kharif sowing remained robust, boosted by good rain spells in several parts of the country. With the dip in rains, Monsoon's performance in the first half of the season — June 1...
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