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3 weeks ago | newslaundry.com | Tanvi Deshpande |Mithilesh Dubey |India Spend

Central India has recorded five times its usual May rainfall and south India has recorded more than two-and-a-half times the typical amount. Multiple factors led to these unseasonal rains, experts say. In a year when India braced for blistering heat waves, May 2025 unleashed unprecedented rainfall activity, catching the country off guard with almost double or 85.7% more rainfall than usual.

Mar 19, 2025 | thewire.in | Sukriti Vats |India Spend

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Mar 16, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Anant Prakash |India Spend

As Punjab reaps financial gains, it also drains its aquifers. In Sangrur, Barnala, and Patiala, the water table has been dropping by a metre a year since 1998. Harwant Singh Aulakh, a farmer in his late sixties, grows basmati rice near Amritsar, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Amir Ghafourimanesh, a commodities importer in Tehran, Iran eats basmati rice leisurely as his father and grandfather do. One produces, the other consumes - both connected by a grain that thrives on water.

Feb 16, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Manu Moudgil |India Spend

Studies show that extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent due to changing climate, increase durations of power outage. A power line with lightning flashing behind it. Raghunadh was 15 when Cyclone Hudhud struck the coastline near his home at Bheemunipatnam, around 30 km from Visakhapatnam in coastal Andhra Pradesh on October 12, 2014.

Feb 9, 2025 | newslaundry.com | Prachi Salve |India Spend

Despite steady growth in women's enrollment in higher education in India, a disparity persists between engineering and technology-related courses and other disciplines. Between 2013-14 and 2021-22, female enrolment in undergraduate courses has increased by 46 percent, and by 55.5 percent in postgraduate courses. But enrolment in engineering degrees has fallen by 1.35 percent for undergraduate courses and by 43 percent for postgraduate courses, government data shows.