-Livemint.com The two weather agencies have had different forecasts for this year’s monsoon since April For once, the state-run forecaster India Meteorological Department (IMD) and private weather forecaster Skymet Weather Services Pvt. Ltd are on the same page: Rainfall in August will be below normal. The two weather agencies have had different forecasts for this year’s monsoon since April. Recently in August, while IMD reiterated that monsoon this year will be deficient,...
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Monsoon deficit at 10%; Met Dept sees situation worsening this month -Vinson Kurian
-The Hindu Business Line THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The overall monsoon deficit for the country as a whole is in double digits for the first time this season, and forecasts suggest it may worsen during the rest of August. India Met Department assessed the deficit at 10 per cent with the worst-hit South topping a list of three geographical regions with 20 per cent. The other deficits are reported from East and North-East India (-12...
More »Monsoon deficit grows to 10% on poor August rains, raises drought fears -Amit Bhattacharya & Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Below-par rainfall across India for more than two weeks has pushed the monsoon deficit to 10% below normal, increasing worries of a second successive drought year in the country. Average all-India rainfall was 5% below normal at the beginning of August but had doubled by Independence Day due to rains remaining consistently below average during the fortnight. August so far has seen 17% below-normal rain. A shortfall...
More »Spectre of drought rubs salt on wounds of farmers in Karnataka -Nagesh Prabhu
-The Hindu Bengaluru: After slump in prices and harassment from moneylenders, the farming community now faces another hardship – failure of kharif crops owing to severe drought. About 26 per cent of the sown area has withered owing to scanty rainfall in more than 20 districts of the State. Already nearly 200 farmers committed suicides owing to indebtedness and other reasons in the last four months in the State. The South-West monsoon being...
More »Whistleblowing in the time of Vyapam -Amrita Johri & Anjali Bhardwaj
-The Indian Express Why is no political party protesting the non-implementation of the protection act? With suspicious attacks on whistleblowers, the Vyapam scam has highlighted the vulnerability of those who show truth to power. The string of corruption scandals that have surfaced in the last three months have established what many believe — in a country the size and diversity of India, it is impossible for a centralised mechanism to control corruption...
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