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N Korean farmers cite grave drought; aid unlikely

The US government suspended food handouts to North Korea in 2009 after Pyongyang expelled foreign fo...

Centre sanctions Rs 588 cr to Maha for drought-relief

Centre has sanctioned Rs 588 crore as part of the drought-relief package to Maharashtra.

Central team visits drought-hit areas in Karnataka

A 12-member Central team, deputed to study drought conditions in parts of Karnataka, on Monday visit...

Centre sanctions Rs 700 crore for drought relief

Centre has sanctioned nearly Rs 700 crore for short-term relief measures to tackle the drought situa...

Central team visits drought-hit areas in Karnataka

A 12-member Central team, deputed to study drought conditions in parts of Karnataka, on Monday visit...

Patil asks leaders to give funds to tackle drought

Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said that the political leaders should provide funds to the state...

Sena doing politics over drought, alleges Rane

Maharashtra Industries Minister and senior Congress leader Narayan Rane on Sunday lashed out at Shiv...

Sena doing politics over drought, alleges Rane

Maha Industries Minister lashed out at Shiv Sena executive prez Uddhav Thackeray for "doing politics...

Shiv Sena for spl package to drought-hit Maha

Shiv Sena sought a special financial package saying the state was heading towards a scenario where t...

Mah`s demand decision for drought aid soon: Pawar

Pawar said that a central team visited Maharashtra after the state sought aid and submitted its repo...

Maha govt set up panels on drought relief measures

Maharashtra government has set up 4 committees to study scope of water conservation works in drought...

Drought Relief: Maha leaders fail to get assurance

Maha leaders delegation which met Singh was told by PM to exercise fiscal discipline through proper ...

Declare Beed as drought hit: Munde

Senior BJP leader and local MP Gopinath Munde on Monday said Beed district is facing drought-like si...

Maha: Rahul meets PM, seeks relief for drought-hit areas

Rahul Gandhi, who had visited the drought-affected areas of Maharashtra last month, today met Prime ...

Maha govt announces drought relief measures

As over 12 districts struggle with drought in Maharashtra, the state government on Wednesday stepped...

Maha to seek central aid to fight drought

Maha CM Prithviraj Chavan said that the govt would demand central aid for tackling the serious situa...

Third Gandhi visits Maha, but drought continues...

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi began his one-day tour of drought-hit areas of Maharashtra`s...

PM forms EGOM to deal with apprehended drought

Manmohan Singh has constituted an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) for effective management of su...

Govt launches centre for crop forecast, drought as

The government Monday launched an integrated centre which will provide estimates of agricultural out...

Karnataka to Centre: Share 50 pc of drought loss

Preliminary estimates have suggested that the drought in 123 taluks has caused a loss of Rs 4,500 cr...

BSY indulging in theatrics on drought: Kumaraswamy

State JDS prez HD Kumraswamy hit out at BJP strongman Yeddyurappa for `indulging in theatrics` over ...

Yeddyurappa seeks Rs 200 crore release

Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday urged his successor D V Sadananda Gowda to ...

K’taka BJP leaders use drought for political gains

The ruling BJP in Karnataka continues to sink deeper into the morass over its internal power struggl...

Karnataka seeks drought relief package

An Rs 2,606 crore drought relief package, Karnataka MPs on Thursday held a protest in Parliament pre...

No cut in power supply to farmers in drought areas

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said power supply to farmers from the dr...

Pre-stressed plants `remember` drought for survival

Plants, which have been previously exposed to a period of drought, learn to deal with the stress.

Plants `remember` drought as part of survival

Plants which experience drought learn to handle them better the next time, thanks to their memories ...

Odisha declares 19 districts drought-hit

The Odisha government on Thursday declared 13,032 villages, which suffered a crop loss of 50 percent...

Modest drought may have ended classic Maya civilization

The disintegration of the Maya Civilization may have been related to relatively modest reductions in...

State govt neglecting drought relief: Congress

Congress today accused the BJP government in Karnataka of neglecting drought relief works and urged ...

AP seeks central assistance to tackle drought

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday sought liberal assistance from the ...

Mars `too dry for life`

An analysis of soil, collected during 2008 Nasa Phoenix mission to Mars, by Imperial College London ...

Climate change precipitates food shortages, unrest

Long-term climate change has often destabilized civilizations through food shortages, hunger, infect...

Plants `can alert each other of impending drought`

Alike humans, plants can also alert each other of an impending drought, say scientists who claim to ...

Drought-tolerant crops coming closer to reality

A team of plant cell biologists has discovered a way to help plants survive drought.

Orissa: Cong walkout over declaration of drought

Congress today walked out of the Assembly here even as the state government assured to take appropri...

Central team visits K’taka to assess drought

A central team arrived to assess the impact of drought in parts of Karnataka, where the Government ...

Central team to assess drought impact in Karnataka

A central team would visit Karnataka on December 14 and 15 to assess the situation in the drought-h...

Dead Sea may vanish completely soon: Scientists

The Dead Sea had almost disappeared once some 120,000 years ago.

AP govt draws flak over drought relief for farmers

The Kiran Kumar Reddy govt in came under fire from a combined opposition for "failing" to come to th...

BJP seeks package from Centre for farmers

The state unit of BJP on Monday demanded that the Central government sanction a Rs 10,000 crore pa...

`K`taka seeks Rs 700 cr relief to tackle drought`

Centre is yet to respond to the Karnataka government`s plea for over Rs 700 crore relief to tackle...

Air pollution worsens drought, flooding: Study

Researchers found that rising levels of aerosols in the air strongly affects cloud formations.

Evidence of 900-yr-old mega drought period found

Researchers at the University of Arizona have revealed a previously unknown multi-decade drought per...

Nine more taluks declared drought-hit in Karnataka

Karnataka government on Friday declared nine more taluks as drought-hit, taking their total number...

K’taka govt has taken steps to tackle drought: CM

The government has taken steps to tackle the drought situation in 90 taluks, Chief Minister D V Sa...

Too wacky? Moving water from flood to drought

As the soggy East tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn`t come, you mig...

Study on global plant die-off faces questions

A study on plant productivity that said drought and global warming were killing off plants worldwide...

Texas town recycling urine due to drought

A town in Texas that is facing a massive drought is set to recycle urine into drinking water.

Aid reaches drought-ravaged Somalia

The ICRC has handed out 400 tonnes of food in drought-hit parts of rebel-held southern Somalia.

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