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It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in all likelihood they would be in the negative zone. Going by government estimates, the...
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Everyone knows that monsoon has failed, very badly in some regions that these are declared drought hit areas by the Government especially in UP till date it is 47...
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Intense heat and stuffy weather combined with annoying power outage have been plaguing the lives of people in summer and the only relief for the masses comes in form of...
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“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty”- Mother...
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Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains and rising floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in north-eastern India and sent elephants and rhinos...
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(In a lighter vein)
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If it rains, there could be a flood. If it doesn’t, there could be a drought. What a choice!
If it doesn’t rain there...
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Our romance and desire play together. The more we get, the more we want and thisis the route cause of all the problems. Your desires were endless, you always wanted to...
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When the days are not so warm and the nights are not so cold, I feel that perhaps spring is in the air!
If you ask me, there are only two...
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Breaking a record of 108 years, monsoon on Sunday hit the national capital almost a fortnight ahead of the schedule.”The monsoon has reached Delhi,” Met...
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INDIANS may find the coming of the rains a time to celebrate. But monsoon fury is something that used to fill Europeans with dread during their stay in this...
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The first rain from India’s annual monsoons, crucial to millions of farmers and the health of the overall economy, hit the southwest coast on Saturday
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According to initial projections by Climatic Researchers, India is likely to get phenomenally hotter and considerably wetter due to the rising threat of Global warming....
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Death toll in Bihar floods has risen to 400, with life remaining disrupted in the state. Floods have hit the eastern states of India very hard.
Bihar, one of the most...
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This is not the month of July and the monsoon is not in its full form. However, the one-day raining in Mumbai has showed the world that how much the financial capital...
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It is summer time in India. Sun is blazingly hot. North India is reeling under heat. Many have already referred the year as the hottest. With daily temperatures...
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Our growth rate is above 8 percent. But our financial capital is quaking from fears from havoc wrought by the rains. There is something seriously wrong about our...
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In this Sept. 7, 2008 file photo, a woman sits with her grandson in her flooded home at Jafragonj, 40 kilometers (25miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of villagers have been displaced due to floods in northern Bangladesh.
