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Mumbai, Aug 30 (IANS) What is common between Anwar Jamal and Prashant Pethe? They have made features and documentaries on farmers and do not believe that ‘Peepli Live’ has much to do with the acute problems faced by India’s farming community.
”Peepli Live’ is a film about the insensitive middle class, the media, politicians, etc. [...]

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Delhiites woke up to a pleasant and cloudy Thursday as the city received a light drizzle in the morning. More rains are expected during the day, the weather office said.
‘The skies will remain cloudy with more rain predicted in the capital. One or two spells may be heavy,’ an [...]

New Delhi, Aug 7 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday and sought financial assistance of over Rs 5000 crore from the Central Government to deal with the drought situation in his State.
After his meeting with Dr Manmohan Singh, Nitish Kumar said that the Prime Minister has assured [...]

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The sun played hide and seek in Delhi Thursday with the weather office expecting slight rain and thundershowers in some areas.
‘A partly cloudy sky is expected. Rains and thundershowers may occur in some areas during the day,’ an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The minimum temperature was [...]

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The practice pad of one of India’s most well-known rock bands, Indian Ocean, has been put up for sale. But it is not about to shift base from Delhi, say its members even as they reach out to listeners with free downloads of their latest album.
‘We are going to [...]

London, July 28 (ANI): Rapper M.I.A. has promised disheartened fans a free concert in New York to compensate for her rain-lashed show which was called-off over safety fears.
The ‘Paper Planes’ hitmaker was headlining the Hard NYC event on Governors Island but a severe thunderstorm broke out during her set, and her performance was cut short.
It [...]

New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) A day after rains lashed the capital, it was a sultry morning in the city Wednesday with the weather office predicting more thundershowers.
‘The skies will remain cloudy with one or two spells of thunderstorms in some pockets of the city,’ said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The [...]

London, July 28 (IANS) British-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A has promised fans a free concert in New York to make up for her rain-lashed show Saturday night which was scrapped over safety fears.
The ‘Paper Planes’ hitmaker was headlining the Hard NYC event on Governors Island but a severe thunderstorm broke out during her set, forcing [...]

Guwahati, July 26 (IANS) Six people, including three schoolgirls and three of a family, drowned Monday in Assam’s rain-swollen rivers, police said.
Three school girls drowned and two went missing while they were taking a dip at Mangaldoi river near Mangaldoi town (about 80 km from here), a police spokesperson said.
‘As part of the Hindu festival [...]

New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) It was a bright sunny morning in Delhi Monday, but the weather office said thundershowers were expected later in the day.
‘Skies will remain partly cloudy with possibility of thundershowers in some parts of the city later in the day. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 35 degrees [...]

London, Jul 234 (ANI): Unemployed Mark Wheeldon, who stood in the rain with a sign pleading: “Give Me A Job”, got himself one after spending three hours standing on a roundabout.
Mark, 23, was so sick of living on benefits after two years of unemployment that he got up at 5 a.m., made his placard, and [...]

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) It will be a humid day in Delhi Saturday but light showers are expected in the evening, the met office said.
‘Delhi will experience partly cloudy sky with the possibility of thundershowers in some areas towards the evening. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 36 degrees Celsius,’ said [...]

Jaipur, July 21 (ANI): Farmers in Rajasthan experienced have expressed relief and joy over the arrival of monsoon rains on Tuesday.
Farmers admitted that they had not witnessed such heavy rainfall for nearly a decade.
“It is good for crops and it is good for farmers. It will be nice if there is good harvest this year,” [...]

Jammu, July 20 (ANI): The ongoing annual Amarnath yatra was temporarily suspended this morning due to overnight rainfall around the holy cave.
The rain has resulted tracks leading to holy cave becoming slippery. The helicopter service from both Baltal and Chandanwari is operating as usual.
According to sources, a fresh group of pilgrims, who left the base [...]

Srinagar, July 19 (ANI): Good rains and moderate temperature have yielded a bumper plum crop for farmers in the Kashmir valley.
Farmers are busy harvesting the fruit, which are mostly grown in the Bhagati Kanipora area of Budgam District and in Zakura in Gulabbag District.
“There is no doubt that the rates of plums this year is [...]

Gandhinagar, July 18 (ANI): Paddy farmers in Gujarat state are eagerly waiting for rains as cultivation in the area has taken a backseat on account of poor rainfall.
The farmers of Sanand city are complaining that current year has not seen enough rains to begin their cultivation and if within the next 10 to 15 days [...]

Jaipur, July 15 (ANI): Due to lack of rain in Rajashthan locals in Jaipur and nearby villages are complaining about the shortage of water and the hardships they have to bear to acquire it, for their daily needs.
The people have to wait for hours to get their water supply from tankers.
“A person has to [...]

New Delhi, July 14 (ANI): At least 24 persons have been killed and 35 have been declared missing after a rain-triggered landslide hit Xiaohe Township in China’s Yunnan province on Tuesday.
Reports from Kunming said that the landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early on Tuesday.
The missing included pupils and teachers, Wang [...]

London, July 11 (ANI): Lady Gaga, known for her crazy style, recently brought traffic in her native New York City to a halt with her free performance.
The ‘Poker Face’ hitmaker performed a free show in the rain, gathering more then 20,000 devotees to watch the star perform, reports the Daily Star.
She took the stage as [...]

Ahmedabad, Jun 6 (PTI) The tropical cyclone ”Phet” has weakened into a depression and laid centred in the Arabian sea about 500 km northwest of Naliya in Kutch today, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said. Owing to the affect of the depression in the Arabian sea, moderate rainfall was recorded in Kutch and Jundagadh districts [...]