The number of extreme rainfall days, when daily totals exceed the top 10% of the long-term average, has risen sharply across ...

India’s financial capital and one of its largest cities has experienced its wettest May in more than a century, with the unusually early arrival of the monsoon season causing a ferocious weekend ...

A few weeks ago, New Delhi was a very thirsty city. The monsoon was late, and the city’s water supply was low. Government tanker trucks delivering water to parched neighborhoods were bombarded by ...

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Massive, sudden downpours of rain known as cloudbursts have struck Pakistan and India during this monsoon season, killing hundreds of people in the flash floods ...

The Southwest Monsoon (SWM) finally withdrew from the entire country on October 16, just a day later than its usual date of ...

Most parts of India, except some areas in the northwest, are likely to receive above-normal rainfall during the post-monsoon season of October to December, the India meteorological department said on ...

India maintained its prediction for an above-normal monsoon, boosting prospects for crops such as rice, soybeans and cotton in a country where rain is the main source of irrigation for almost half of ...

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 ...

New Delhi — At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured by lightning strikes in the eastern Indian state of Bihar this week, officials said Friday. The deaths occurred as powerful storms and ...

Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials ...