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Southwest monsoon hits Kerala; IMD warns of weak season
The southwest monsoon made its onset over Kerala on Thursday, marking the start of the country's four month rainy season(June-September), according to the India Meteorological Department ( IMD). "The southwest monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of southwest and southeast Arabian Sea, some parts of west central and east central Arabian Sea, entire Lakshadweep islands, Kerala and some parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, remaining parts of Comorin area, southeast Bay of Bengal...
Monsoon arrives in Kerala, after 3-day delay
The southwest (summer) monsoon set in over Kerala on Thursday, three days after its normal onset date, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The monsoon normally arrives in Kerala on June 1, marking the beginning of the four-month rainy season as well as kharif crop sowing operations in India. This is only the second time in the past 22 years that IMD's operational forecast of the monsoon's onset date over Kerala has been off the mark - the Met department had earlier predicted May 26...
CNA Explains: What is El Nino and what can Singapore expect if it returns in 2026?
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Monsoon rain reaches Kerala 3 days late but on time to save Indian harvests
Monsoon rain reaches Kerala 3 days late but on time to save Indian harvests The monsoon rains are essential for driving India’s $4 trillion economy. Monsoon rains have arrived in India’s southeastern state of Kerala three days late, the Meteorological Department says. The rains typically arrive on June 1 and are critical to India’s economic health, enabling farmers to plant cotton, soya beans, sugarcane, rice and corn.
RBI MPC may hike inflation forecast, trim growth rate
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At 7.7%, India's GDP growth in FY26 beats slowdown predictions; but will the momentum continue?
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Hurricane season begins, with the first below-average forecast in a decade
Hurricane season in the Atlantic kicked off Monday, and, for the first time in more than a decade, forecasters expect it to be relatively slow. The below-average forecast is driven by the expectation that a strong El Niño pattern will develop, which is associated with less hurricane formation in the Atlantic. The opposite is true in the Pacific, however, which should have an active season.
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Abstract Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1,2,3,4,5,6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along the sea floor of the southeastern Indian Ocean. This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded.
IN FOCUS: With landfills almost full, Indonesia grapples with ‘ticking time bomb’ of waste crisis
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