It will be a warmer winter for north India, colder for south, says IMD
December will be dry as IMD has forecast below normal rainfall for most of India during the month
Cold waves killed more Indians than heat waves since 1980: IMD
There has also been a 506% increase in the number of cold waves in India in this decade
Bird watchers record over 200 bird species in Chhattisgarh’s Kanger Valley National Park
The landscape of Kanger Valley can potentially host species found in the Himalayas, the Northeast, the Eastern and Western Ghats, the survey showed
India’s cold-wave regions to have warm winter: IMD
While the winter season in general will be warm, based on average temperature, the cold-wave regions would be warmer than other regions
Just how harmful is air pollution and how bad is India placed
In India, life expectancy dropped by 3.86 years in 2015 due to air pollution
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Can India’s emergency response to Covid-19 be more systematic?
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Rainfall expected in many states of India
An upper air trough to bring first widespread rainfall event of this winter season
Is Bhilwara Rajasthan’s COVID-19 hotspot?
A large number of people had returned to the town from abroad recently, according to accounts
Heatwave over north, central India abating, says private forecaster
Temperatures to fall after rising marginally in the next two days
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COVID-19: What exactly is community transmission?
It is the third phase of a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization
In 5 graphs: How Monsoon 2021 is turning out to be an unusual one
Officially, it is still a normal monsoon but deficit level has been rising since July
COVID-19: Centre tells SC 30% migrants on move may have virus
‘We would quarantine them at shelter homes to prevent large-scale contagion’
‘North Atlantic Oscillation may have played a role in this time's cold wave’
Down To Earth speaks to IMD scientist Rajendra Kumar Jenamani about why temperatures dipped so much this winter in spite of its prediction to the …
As northwest India endures unusual dust storms, northeast gets flooded before monsoon arrives
The magnitude of floods is likely to increase by 25 per cent in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, parts of Meghalaya and Nagaland
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Union Budget 2022-23: Number of centrally sponsored schemes cut by half
19 schemes under Ministry of Women & Child Development ‘rationalised’ revamped to only 3
FLOOD FACTSHEET: Monsoon may be on a break, not deluge
How floods have affected India by in the first half of 2021