Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has extended the application date for monetary relief to farmers in the state whose crops were affected by excessive rain this year. Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance minister Nitin Patel today said that the date has been extended till January 14. He also said that the survey with regard to locust attack damage to farmers in North Gujarat was also nearing completion and such farmers would also be compensated like the ones affected by non ...Read More

Rajkot: The Gujarat government would start distribution of the relief money to lakhs of farmers in the state whose crops were affected by excessive rain this year, from tomorrow, Agriculture minister R C Faldu informed today. Addressing a press conference here he said that CM Vijay Rupani would transfer the money in the accounts of over five lakh farmers during an event on the occasion of former PM Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Vadodara tomorrow while Deputy CM Nitin Patel along with MoS Home ...Read More

Ahmedabad: Parts of North Gujarat and Kutch regions were likely to see spells of light rain tomorrow due to presence of a cyclonic circulation over Southeast Rajasthan and neighborhood. According to the met bulletin issued here today there won't be any large change in temperatures in the next 48 hours but after that a fall of 2 to 3 °C was likely. The bulletin said that a morning’s cyclonic circulation over southeast Rajasthan and neighbourhood extending up to 0.9 km ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The cloudy to partially cloudy weather at several places in Gujarat including Ahmedabad is due to the depression/low pressure area in South East Arabian sea. It will clear from tomorrow after which the state is likely to see a drop in minimum temperatures. IMD center Ahmedabad Director Jayanta Sarkar today said. He said that some places in Saurashtra region like Dwarka and Veraval had seen light rain during last 24 hours while apart from these two Kutch, Po...Read More

Gandhinagar: Parts of Saurashtra today saw light rain even as more spells of such non-seasonal rain for tomorrow and the day after have been forecast by the met department under the influence of a well marked low pressure area in the South East Arabian sea which is likely to concentrate in to a depression in the next 24 hours. According to the met bulletin of this evening sea would remain rough and warning Signal number one has also been hoisted on all the ports including Navlakhi, Pip...Read More

Gandhinagar: Parts of Saurashtra region in Gujarat might see a spell of light to moderate non-seasonal rain on December 4 and 5 under the influence of a low press area in the South East Arabian sea. According to the met bulletin issued this evening Junagadh, Gir Somnath, Porbandar, Dwarka and in Diu were likely to see light to moderate rain on December 4 while parts of Dwarka district were likely to see such rain on December 5. Meanwhile, a met official today said that the ra...Read More

Gandhinagar: Even as pinkish cold has gripped almost whole of Gujarat, the western state today recorded its first single digit or sub 10 temperature with Nailya in Kutch district seeing a minimum of 9.9 °C . According to the met bulletin this evening there won't be much changes in the minimum temperatures in the next two days. A spell of non-seasonal light to moderate rain has also been predicted from December 4 under the influence of a low pressure area in the Arabian s...Read More

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel today in a press conference here declared Rs. 3,795 crore relief package for farmers facing crop damage due to unseasonal rains. Patel said the package will benefit 56.36 lakh farmers across 18,369 villages of 248 talukas through budgetary provision of Rs. 1641 crore and SDRF(State Disaster Response Fund) fund of Rs. 2,145 crore. The State government had earlier announced Rs. 700 crore relief package as initial relief measure. The farmers ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Rain in Gujarat has crossed 146% mark which in volume terms is third highest in any one year in the last 30 years. Of this over 9% of the rain has been recorded during non-monsoon season of this year; almost 5 percent before arrival of monsoon in mid June due to the impact of cyclone Vayu and over 4 % so far after the withdrawal of monsoon under the impact of cyclone Kyarr and Maha and a cyclonic circulation under the influence of which the state is experiencing light to...Read More

Gandhinagar: Parts of Banaskantha district today saw rain with hailstorm while parts of Amreli and Botad district also recieved light to moderate rain even as met has predicted such non-seasonal rain spells in some districts for three days including today under the influence of a cyclonic circulation over SouthWest Rajasthan and neighbourhood. Suigam, Diyodar and Vav talukas in Banaskantha district in North Gujarat saw rain with hailstorm while Chalala town, Babra taluka and areas aro...Read More