Monsoon India News

India on Tuesday scrapped the export tax on parboiled rice, the government said in an official order, as inventories in the world's biggest exporter of the grain surged and the country is set to produce a bumper crop after copious monsoon rains.

This move comes after the Regional Meteorological Centre forecasted normal to slightly above normal rainfall during the northeast monsoon.

India has removed most of the export curbs it imposed on rice shipments in 2023 with immediate effect, as above-average monsoon rains are expected to boost crop yields amid overflowing stocks in state granaries.

A total of 150 people have died in rain-related incidents so far since the onset of monsoon on June 27, officials here said on Friday.

The flood situation in Tripura, which witnessed catastrophic monsoon deluge for the first time in over three decades, slightly improved on Friday but vast areas including human habitations in urban and rural areas, still inundated.

This increase follows the deaths of at least seven more people from two families, including three women and a child, who were killed in landslides. The state is experiencing its most severe monsoon flooding in over 30 years.

The popular fish markets of Kolkata are missing the best seller this monsoon, the Hilsa from the Padma river -- yet another fallout of the turmoil in Bangladesh.

Nirmala Sitharaman will today move the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha.

Waqf Act Amendment Bill: The BJP-led government is slated to introduce the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday to amend the Waqf Act, 1995.

The bill aims to rename the Waqf Act, 1995, as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995.

Delhi Rain LIVE Updates: Delhi Education Minister Atishi announced that all schools in the national capital, both government and private, will remain closed today in view of heavy rainfall.

As the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, is set to present her seventh Union Budget, the Monsoon Session of Parliament will commence on July 22.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday said the monsoon is likely to be active in peninsular, and central India during the next 4 to 5 days bringing heavy rainfall in these regions.

Monsoon is driving cases of a highly contagious hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) -- a common viral illness -- in young children in the national capital, said doctors here on Wednesday.

Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday defended Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Bihar bridge collapses and said that the unusually heavy monsoon rains were the primary cause for the incidents.

India on Tuesday scrapped the export tax on parboiled rice, the government said in an official order, as inventories in the world's biggest exporter of the grain surged and the country is set to produce a bumper crop after copious monsoon rains.

This move comes after the Regional Meteorological Centre forecasted normal to slightly above normal rainfall during the northeast monsoon.

India has removed most of the export curbs it imposed on rice shipments in 2023 with immediate effect, as above-average monsoon rains are expected to boost crop yields amid overflowing stocks in state granaries.

A total of 150 people have died in rain-related incidents so far since the onset of monsoon on June 27, officials here said on Friday.

The flood situation in Tripura, which witnessed catastrophic monsoon deluge for the first time in over three decades, slightly improved on Friday but vast areas including human habitations in urban and rural areas, still inundated.

This increase follows the deaths of at least seven more people from two families, including three women and a child, who were killed in landslides. The state is experiencing its most severe monsoon flooding in over 30 years.

The popular fish markets of Kolkata are missing the best seller this monsoon, the Hilsa from the Padma river -- yet another fallout of the turmoil in Bangladesh.

Nirmala Sitharaman will today move the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha.

Waqf Act Amendment Bill: The BJP-led government is slated to introduce the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday to amend the Waqf Act, 1995.

The bill aims to rename the Waqf Act, 1995, as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995.

Delhi Rain LIVE Updates: Delhi Education Minister Atishi announced that all schools in the national capital, both government and private, will remain closed today in view of heavy rainfall.

As the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, is set to present her seventh Union Budget, the Monsoon Session of Parliament will commence on July 22.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday said the monsoon is likely to be active in peninsular, and central India during the next 4 to 5 days bringing heavy rainfall in these regions.

Monsoon is driving cases of a highly contagious hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) -- a common viral illness -- in young children in the national capital, said doctors here on Wednesday.

Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday defended Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Bihar bridge collapses and said that the unusually heavy monsoon rains were the primary cause for the incidents.