Monsoon Mission

The Indian Space Research Organisation, through its commercial arms, has earned $279 million in foreign exchange by launching satellites for global clients, Union Minister Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

A snake was recently found curled up inside a shoe and a scary video of the rescue mission has surfaced on social media.

Investments of nearly Rs 1,000 crore on the National Monsoon Mission and the High Performance Computing programme of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) over the past five years have generated economic benefits worth Rs 50,000 crore for farmers, livestock rearers and fishermen, a survey has shown.

Bihar floods: The flood situation in Bihar has worsened after continuous heavy rain in the state for the past few days. Seven people have died due flood-related incidents so far and over 10.6 lakh in the state are affected. Large swathes of land are under flood waters. Helicopters of the Indian Air Force have been deployed in the worst affected dis...

Bihar floods: The flood situation in Bihar has worsened after continuous heavy rain in the state for the past few days. Seven people have died due flood-related incidents so far and over 10.6 lakh in the state are affected. Large swathes of land are under flood waters. Helicopters of the Indian Air Force have been deployed in the worst affected dis...

Rescuers resumed preparations on Tuesday for a third rescue operation deep into a cave complex in northern Thailand to free four remaining boys and their soccer coach in a race against time and monsoon weather.

The mayor of Mumbai on Sunday led officials from the municipal body to one the busiest parts of city. The mission? To inspect how they had fared on the deadline served last week to fill up all the potholes in Mumbai.

In a major exercise in Lakshadweep, the Indian Navy launched a multiple rescue mission today to fly out patients in need of emergency medical evacuation from the islands in the Indian Ocean to the naval base at Kochi. And all this, through heavy monsoon rains and low visibility.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda suffered a major blow on Thursday when the Monsoon Session of Parliament ended without approving the biggest ever tax reform for India.

The government has sought Parliament's nod to spend an additional Rs 25,500 crore in the current fiscal, nearly half of which will be spent on capital infusion into state-owned banks to help them overcome the high bad loans situation.

As the Indian Meteorological Department will give its much-awaited first long-range forecast on the coming monsoon on Wednesday, the government has started a global research initiative to understand the nature of monsoons in India.

A sub-normal monsoon has given rise to the possibility of drought in parts of the country, but the government is ready to tackle it. The Narendra Modi government has prepped a contingency.

Monsoon rains wreaked fresh havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslips as the toll climbed to 81. Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the two northern states, have been the worst affected. Thousands of people are stranded. 5000 Army troops are out on rescue missions in parts of Uttarakhand, UP and Haryana. 12 Air Force...

The Indian Space Research Organisation, through its commercial arms, has earned $279 million in foreign exchange by launching satellites for global clients, Union Minister Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

A snake was recently found curled up inside a shoe and a scary video of the rescue mission has surfaced on social media.

Investments of nearly Rs 1,000 crore on the National Monsoon Mission and the High Performance Computing programme of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) over the past five years have generated economic benefits worth Rs 50,000 crore for farmers, livestock rearers and fishermen, a survey has shown.

Bihar floods: The flood situation in Bihar has worsened after continuous heavy rain in the state for the past few days. Seven people have died due flood-related incidents so far and over 10.6 lakh in the state are affected. Large swathes of land are under flood waters. Helicopters of the Indian Air Force have been deployed in the worst affected dis...

Bihar floods: The flood situation in Bihar has worsened after continuous heavy rain in the state for the past few days. Seven people have died due flood-related incidents so far and over 10.6 lakh in the state are affected. Large swathes of land are under flood waters. Helicopters of the Indian Air Force have been deployed in the worst affected dis...

Rescuers resumed preparations on Tuesday for a third rescue operation deep into a cave complex in northern Thailand to free four remaining boys and their soccer coach in a race against time and monsoon weather.

The mayor of Mumbai on Sunday led officials from the municipal body to one the busiest parts of city. The mission? To inspect how they had fared on the deadline served last week to fill up all the potholes in Mumbai.

In a major exercise in Lakshadweep, the Indian Navy launched a multiple rescue mission today to fly out patients in need of emergency medical evacuation from the islands in the Indian Ocean to the naval base at Kochi. And all this, through heavy monsoon rains and low visibility.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda suffered a major blow on Thursday when the Monsoon Session of Parliament ended without approving the biggest ever tax reform for India.

The government has sought Parliament's nod to spend an additional Rs 25,500 crore in the current fiscal, nearly half of which will be spent on capital infusion into state-owned banks to help them overcome the high bad loans situation.

As the Indian Meteorological Department will give its much-awaited first long-range forecast on the coming monsoon on Wednesday, the government has started a global research initiative to understand the nature of monsoons in India.

A sub-normal monsoon has given rise to the possibility of drought in parts of the country, but the government is ready to tackle it. The Narendra Modi government has prepped a contingency.

Monsoon rains wreaked fresh havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslips as the toll climbed to 81. Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the two northern states, have been the worst affected. Thousands of people are stranded. 5000 Army troops are out on rescue missions in parts of Uttarakhand, UP and Haryana. 12 Air Force...