This option will reset the home page of The Punekar restoring closed widgets and categories.

Reset The Punekar homepage
Home  »  Archives

Posts Tagged ‘rains’

Rs 208 crore crop damage estimated in Pune

Written on 25 Nov, 2009 at 11:04 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Preliminary estimates by the agriculture department have revealed that heavy rains between November 9 and 12 caused damage worth Rs 207.86 crore to crops on 75,363 hectares of land in Pune district. The rains were a result of cyclone Phyan.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:             

Post-monsoon rains hit grape and pomegranate crops in the state

Written on 12 Nov, 2009 at 11:30 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

The post-monsoon rains have severely affected the grape and pomegranate crops in the state.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:             

Vegetable prices burn pockets, traders blame recent spate of rains

Written on 12 Oct, 2009 at 11:08 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Vegetables, except tomatoes, have once again become dearer in Pune market over the last two days.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:                 

Unless it rains 400 mm, dams won’t be full

Written on 2 Sep, 2009 at 12:38 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

The four dams that supply water to the city collectively have 72 per cent water and require about 400mm of rainfall to be filled to capacity.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:         

Train link between Mumbai-Pune affected by heavy rains

Written on 16 Jul, 2009 at 11:54 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Pune Mirror: Trains were affected due to the rains. Pune-Mumbai Deccan Express which was scheduled for departure at 15.30 hours was rescheduled for 17.30 hours, while the Kolhapur-Mumbai Saiyadri Express was terminated in Lonavala.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:                 

Scientists experiment to create artificial rains through cloud seeding

Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 11:39 in India, Info Guide | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far

Pune Mirror: With the rain gods playing truant and the monsoons increasingly seeming a distant dream, genius minds at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) have decided to appease the clouds with more than just prayers.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:             

Vegetables prices rise as rains play truant

Written on 17 Jun, 2009 at 11:51 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Sakaal Times: The delayed rains have led to steep hike in vegetable prices which, in some cases, have gone up by almost four times in local markets.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:             

Monsoon is shying away from Pune for few more days

Written on 12 Jun, 2009 at 11:47 in Know Your City | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Pune Mirror: If you’ve been wanting to romance the rains, you have to wait some more. The monsoon is shying away from Pune, although it has arrived in the other parts of the state.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:                 

Continuous rains disrupt Pune-Mumbai traffic

Written on 11 Aug, 2008 at 10:42 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Times of Pune, PUNE: The incessant rains since midnight Saturday have not only completely halted rail traffic between Pune and Mumbai due to water-logging on the tracks.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:                             

Rains will be back in 48 hours – IMD forecast

Written on 24 Jul, 2008 at 14:11 in News | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far

Expressindia.com: Just as the state is reeling under the drought-like situation with 13 districts already declared as water scarcity zones, Met officers have announced that rains would be back in 48 hours.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with: