NEW DELHI, July 20 (Reuters) - India's key crop areas, including cane and grain-growing states, have received good monsoon showers that have boosted output prospects despite low rains in the ...

Future monsoon storms may weaken in wind but grow wetter, last longer over land, and increase flood risk across South Asia.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's annual monsoon has covered more than three-fourths of the country and it is set to cover the entire country on time for the planting season despite stalling earlier this ...

MUMBAI >> India’s annual monsoon rains covered the entire country on Sunday, nine days earlier than is typical, the weather department said, bringing forward planting of summer-sown crops. The monsoon ...

The advance of monsoon over the Indian mainland is marked by its onset over Kerala and is an important indicator characterising the transition from the hot and dry season to the rainy season. The ...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Landslides and flash flooding triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains in India’s northeast have killed at least 22 people, officials said Saturday. Five people, including ...

MUMBAI, June 22 (Reuters) - India has now forecast just below normal monsoon rains, raising concerns about the country's production of key summer-sown crops like rice, cotton, sugar cane, corn and ...

Just as scientists around the world were beginning to understand the complex and mysterious Indian monsoon — one of the most powerful weather systems in the world — “we’ve been hit with climate change ...

In ancient Vedic texts, Indra, the king of the gods, battles the vicious monster Vritra who has swallowed all the water in the world and left the people starving without rain for their crops. Armed ...

The bad news for India is scrawled across the scorching sky. Not a speck of monsoon clouds has been spotted over much of north and northwestern India for weeks, and the meteorological office has ...