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Tanima Biswas, Saturday September 12, 2009, New Delhi

For most of the year, the Yamuna is effectively a polluted drain that flows through Delhi. There is little water and mostly polluted discharge from factories and settlements. Now, the Yamuna is overflowing its banks because of the very heavy rains in the area over the last couple of days, and people living in low lying areas face an imminent danger.

Deep depression over Bay of Bengal

Press Trust of India, Saturday September 5, 2009, Bhubaneswar

Low atmospheric pressure over the north-west Bay of Bengal has concentrated into a deep depression and lay centrered at about 70 km south east of Balasore in Orissa, Cyclone Warning Centre said in Bhubaneswar.

New terminal at Delhi airport washed away

Manu Sharma, Saturday August 22, 2009, New Delhi

The departure lounge of what is supposed to be Delhi's pride, the domestic airport's new terminal 1D, washed away after just one hour of heavy rain on Friday. This led to chaos and delays. Just a month ago, this was the condition of the same departure lounge after a downpour.

New terminal at Delhi airport washed away

Manu Sharma, Saturday August 22, 2009, New Delhi

Rain-soaked Delhi after storm

Press Trust of India, Friday August 21, 2009, New Delhi

Delhi came to a standstill on Friday evening as heavy rains accompanied by winds lashed the city, inundating several low-lying areas and leading to huge traffic jams and collapse of a portion of a terminal building at the IGI airport in New Delhi.

Rains continue to drench North India

Press Trust of India, Sunday August 16, 2009, New Delhi

Weather remained pleasant in most parts of North India as rains continued to drench the region, including the national capital, keeping mercury at comfortable levels. Heavy to moderate rain was recorded at many places in Uttar Pradesh, as a result of which there was decline in average temperature by four-five degrees, Met office said.

Palamu: 24 hours with a farmer

Alok Pandey , Friday August 14, 2009, Palamu

Enroute to the Parsalia village in the dense jungles of Palamu district of Jharkhand, NDTV team meets Shankar Yadav -- a 40 year old farmer -- taking his five buffaloes back to the village from the river. "My biggest worry is what to feed them. Fodder is fast running out. I tried to sell them, but no one is willing to buy the buffaloes," he says.

El Nino scare for drought-hit India

NDTV Correspondent, Wednesday August 12, 2009, New Delhi

India staring at a drought, thanks to a delayed and weak monsoon. The crops hardest hit by drought are rice, sugar and soyabean. Trade sources said that India's sugar stocks on July 31 were 60 per cent lower than a year ago. It is a bigger year-on-year decline than the 54 per cent drop a month ago.

Help us or kill us, say Jharkhand farmers

Alok Pandey , Tuesday August 11, 2009, Palamu

Desperate pleas of farmers pushed to the brink: Help us or allow us to kill ourselves. Six hundred farmers in the Chhatarpur block of the Palamu district of Jharkhand are taking this threat to the President through a petition. Palamu has a history of droughts. The area is fertile, but has no irrigation system. This year has been particularly bad. The entire state has been declared drought hit.

Drought: Govt says don't panic, but...

Shweta Rajpal Kohli, Tuesday August 11, 2009, New Delhi

"There is no point pressing panic button. Because if you keep chanting drought drought, drought and its adverse impact, it will not give me any relief," said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday. The Finance Minister is worried. The weak monsoon is could derailing the government's plan of bringing the economy back on track.