The mercury hovered around 34 degrees Celsius for several days at a stretch. The minimum relative humidity, a measure of the moisture content in the air during the driest part of the day, was consiste...

The axis of the monsoon trough at mean sea level passed through Amritsar, Meerut, Bahraich, Muzaffarpur and Jalpaiguri. Director of Ranchi Meteorological Centre S.D. Kotal said the southwest mon...

A cyclonic circulation triggered moderate rainfall in the city on Tuesday and Wednesday. It brought temporary relief from the rising heat and humidity in the city since last weekend. But sweaty condi...

“We have told the health department repeatedly to clean the hospital’s choked drains. But neither they nor the municipality paid any heed,” said West Bengal State Workers’ Fede...

Nearly 500 residents, mostly fishermen, in East Midnapore’s Sankarpur have joined hands to temporarily repair a 1km stretch of an embankment that was damaged over a week ago by incessant rain an...

Around 11am on Thursday, several stretches of Amherst Street, Thanthania and Muktaram Babu Street in the north had ankle-deep water. In the south, some areas in Kidderpore and Tangra were waterlogged....

Over 50 villages in West Midnapore’s Ghatal were inundated since Tuesday night after rivers Parang and Shilabati overflowed in the wake of heavy rainfall in the region. Over 40,000 persons in t...

“The low-pressure, which originated from the Bay of Bengal and resulted in heavy rains especially in southern Jharkhand since Tuesday has moved  towards northwest. It is gradually beco...

Heavy flooding has killed at least 100 people and injured scores of others as heavy seasonal rains drenched northern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday.  Annual heavy rains, co...

Statistics revealed that the rain deficit witnessed a drop of two per cent from Tuesday’s nine to seven per cent, due to a good shower show in the past 24 hours According to Met data,...