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India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues its first official forecast for 2018 southwest monsoon rains

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued its first official forecast for 2018 southwest monsoon rains in New...

📅 April 16, 2018

Pratyush- India’s Fastest Supercomputer

India’s fastest and first multi-petaflops (PF) supercomputer named Pratyush was unveiled at Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). The supercomputer has been named as ‘Pratyush’ meaning...

📅 April 7, 2018

Harsh Vardhan launches 2.8 Peta Flops High Performance Computer system ‘Mihir’

Dr Harsh Vardhan, the Union Minister of Earth Sciences (MoES) , has launched a 2.8 Peta Flops capacity...

📅 February 1, 2018

Indigenously developed S-band Doppler Weather Radar commissioned in Kochi  

A state-of-the-art, indigenously developed S-band doppler weather radar (DWR) of India Meteorological Department (IMD) was commissioned at Palluruthy...

📅 July 13, 2017

India declares drought as El Nino appears

India sees its first drought in last three years due to deficient Monsoon rains As per India Meteorological...

📅 August 6, 2012

India forecasts average monsoon rains this year

Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh held that India is probable to experience average monsoon rains this year, thus...

📅 April 28, 2012

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