Western India was struck by the “Deccan famine” between 1630 and 1632 as crops failed after three consecutive years of Indian monsoon failures. While traveling through the region, Peter Mundy, an ...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - India is likely to receive a normal amount of monsoon rain in 2023 despite the likely emergence of the El Nino weather phenomenon, the state-run weather office ...

MUMBAI, June 8 (Reuters) - Monsoon rain reached the coast of India's southernmost Kerala state on Thursday, offering relief to farmers after a delay of more than a week, marking its latest arrival in ...

I woke up to see the sun shining, and my heart dropped. Normally, during a vacation, sun is a good thing. But when you’ve come all the way to India to experience the monsoon, all you want is rain. On ...

India can expect above-normal monsoon season this year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced in its long-range forecast on Tuesday, predicting rainfall to be around 105% of the ...

New Delhi — Flash floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 22 people in the Himalayan region of northern India, authorities said Monday. Several cities and towns across ...

Balaji Rajagopalan grew up in a small railroad town near Hyderabad, India, in a home without running water. At night, the sound of water would often awaken him, prompting him to rush with cooking pots ...

Monsoon rains in Sri Lanka intensified under the influence of a cyclonic storm and triggered destructive flooding in the ...

New Delhi – India's monsoon-rain-swollen Yamuna river, which flooded parts of Delhi last week, has become so engorged that its waters were lapping Wednesday at the walls of India's most iconic ...