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Our Monsoon Forecast Correct, Says Met Department
The monsoon may start to retreat from first week of September or may be early next week, Indian Meteorological Department's chief LS Rathore told NDTV, even as the countrywide rain deficit grew to 12 per cent for the season.
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Fear of Drought Makes Distressed Farmers Seek Permission to Die
Seven farmers from Maharashtra's Wardha district have written to the state government seeking permission to kill themselves. Deficient rainfall and hailstorms earlier this year had destroyed their crops, and they have not been given the promised compensation by the government since January this year.
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How PM Narendra Modi Plans to Turn a Deficient Monsoon from Challenge to Opportunity
With deficiet monsoon predicted this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the "challenge" should be converted into an "opportunity" for looking at other avenues of irrigation.
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Deficient Monsoon Won't Affect Food Supply: Union Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan
Allaying fears that deficient monsoon may have an adverse impact on food supply, Union Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan today said such a situation will not force people to starve as country has "sufficient" foodgrains stock that can last for at least one year.
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Our Monsoon Forecast Correct, Says Met Department
The monsoon may start to retreat from first week of September or may be early next week, Indian Meteorological Department's chief LS Rathore told NDTV, even as the countrywide rain deficit grew to 12 per cent for the season.
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Fear of Drought Makes Distressed Farmers Seek Permission to Die
Seven farmers from Maharashtra's Wardha district have written to the state government seeking permission to kill themselves. Deficient rainfall and hailstorms earlier this year had destroyed their crops, and they have not been given the promised compensation by the government since January this year.
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How PM Narendra Modi Plans to Turn a Deficient Monsoon from Challenge to Opportunity
With deficiet monsoon predicted this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the "challenge" should be converted into an "opportunity" for looking at other avenues of irrigation.
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Deficient Monsoon Won't Affect Food Supply: Union Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan
Allaying fears that deficient monsoon may have an adverse impact on food supply, Union Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan today said such a situation will not force people to starve as country has "sufficient" foodgrains stock that can last for at least one year.
