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Slight improvement in Delhi’s air quality, but still at ‘poor’ levels Further high deterioration in AQI of Delhi is only expecting by the first week of November now Current Affairs :The air quality in Delhi improved marginally on Wednesday however kept on staying in the ‘poor classification’, as per the AQI file of the Central Pollution Control Board. This could be, maybe, because of the easterlies that have diminished the effect of the northwesterlies which have been bringing the biomass from stubble consuming in the conditions of Haryana and Punjab to Delhi. The PM2.5 – particles noticeable all around with a distance across of under 2.5 micrometers – level was recorded at 218 around 8:20 am, as indicated by information from SAFAR. An AQI somewhere in the range of 0 and 50 is considered ‘great’, 51 and 100 ‘agreeable’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘extremely poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘serious’. Area astute, Chandni Chowk (extremely poor with AQI ...

Mumbai records second-wettest July in the last 60 years, says IMD The Santacruz and Colaba observatories in the city recorded 1,464.8 mm and 1,175.1 mm rainfall, respectively, this month Current Affairs :- In spite of the fact that the storm touched base in Mumbai late, the city recorded second-most astounding precipitation for the period of July over the most recent 60 years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday. The Santacruz and Colaba observatories in the city recorded 1,464.8 mm and 1,175.1 mm precipitation, individually, this month. Five years back, the city had seen significantly more precipitation in July, establishing a precedent. The Santacruz observatory had recorded 1,468.5 mm precipitation in July 2014, said K S Hosalikar, Deputy Director General of the Regional Center of the IMD here. Continue Reading

Chennai to Latur, India struggles for drinking water as reservoirs dry up India typically witnesses water scarcity during summer months, but the situation this year is particularly grim in western and southern states Current Affair :-A great many individuals are frantically anticipating past due rainstorm rains as they battle to verify drinking water in the midst of a warmth wave crosswise over India that is quickly evaporating repositories and sending temperatures taking off the nation over. India ordinarily witnesses water shortage during summer months, however the circumstance this year is especially terrible in western and southern states which got not exactly typical precipitation in the 2018 storm season. “I wake ahead of schedule to get water from a well outside the town, as inside three hours the water runs dry,” says Ramchandra Pawar, a rancher from Latur region somewhere in the range of 500 km (300 miles) southeast of Mumbai in the dry season hit western provin...

Brace for 0.5 degree Celsius rise in temperature this summer Temperatures are expected to be near normal in the rest of the country, the IMD said. Current Affairs :  Support for some genuine summer a long time ahead. The normal temperature between April to June is probably going to be 0.5 degrees Celsius hotter in north and focal India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday in its occasional viewpoint for the following three months. Temperatures are relied upon to be close ordinary in the remainder of the nation, the IMD said. “The April to June season normal greatest temperatures are probably going to be hotter than ordinary by 0.5 degrees Celsius over the majority of the meteorological subdivisions from focal India and a few subdivisions from northwest India. Close ordinary greatest temperatures are likely in the rest of the subdivisions,” the regular standpoint said. The northwest subdivision of the IMD contains conditions of Jammu and Kashmi...