SHAHAPUR, India – Shantabai Babulkar's day begins before dawn with a 5 kilometer (3 mile) trek across barren fields and dusty scrubland to fetch water from a distant well for her family. The two ...

SHAHAPUR, India – Shantabai Babulkar’s day begins before dawn with a 3 mile trek across barren fields and dusty scrubland to fetch water from a distant well for her family. The two meta… ...

About 42% of India’s land area is facing drought, with 6% exceptionally dry – four times the spatial extent of drought last year, according to data for the week ending March 26, 2019, from the ...

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At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India, the government has told the Supreme Court. Authorities say this number is likely to rise further given that some states with water ...

In what could become the first crises of the country's brand-new government, India is preparing for a possible drought amid early signs the annual monsoon may not be as generous as usual this year.

India's monsoon rains are unlikely to pick up enough to avert the possibility that ministers meeting next week may officially declare a drought, which could prompt the government to offer more ...

In 2015, the Centre released a comprehensive >Drought Crisis Management Plan. Read with the crisis management plan, the manual explains that relief measures must be implemented by State ...

This organisation is working with the government to provide relief in India's drought-hit areas Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana’s Sujalam Suphalam initiative is improving water resources in rural ...

The drought bedevilling India has begun to threaten the government's long-standing claim that it can feed the country's growing multitudes. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent ...