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Waiting for rains

Waiting for rains
A woman at a parched paddy field at Rajapathar, some 83 km from Diphu, district headquarter of Karbi Anglong district, on June 28, 2009. During the period between May 25 and June 19 this year, according to the Regional Meterological Centre at Guwahati, Meghalaya recorded a deficit rainfall of 75% - the highest. Nagaland is not far behind a deficit rainfall of 60%. Assam recorded 31% deficit rainfall, Arunachal Pradesh 35%, Manipur 38%, Mizoram 36% and Tripura 21% during this period marking the first 25 days of the current monsoon season.
Camera: Not mentioned
Copyright: Hemanta Kumar Nath
[Image uploaded on 29 June 2009 by Hemanta Kumar Nath.]
[First published: 29 June 2009 | Last updated: 29 June 2009.]
 
 
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The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.

Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.

— Subir Ghosh
The Northeast Vigil site is not operated/maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.