Vidarbha region to Holi

First India Bureau Mumbai: Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region could see wet days in the run up to Holi, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting “unseasonal rain and thunderstorm activity arising from “a north-south trough in lower-level easterlies”.

Under its influence, isolated light rainfall has been forecast over north Maharashtra, with the Vidarbha subdivision likely to see rain on Monday and Tuesday.

As for the rest of West India, IMD says the maximum temperatures are likely to rise by 2-3°C during the next two

BJP’s defeat in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll proves that people are considering an alternative. Winds of change are blowing across the country.

—Sharad Pawar, NCP chief were announced on Thursday, ending the BJP’s hold on the seat after almost 30 years.

Girish Bapat, the current BJP MP from Pune, represented the seat five times until 2019. In 2019, BJP’s Mukta Tilak won the Kasba Peth seat. She died after battling cancer in December 2022, necessitating the bypoll to the constituency, located in the old area of Pune city.

The by-election had become a battle for prestige between the ruling coalition and the Opposition MVA. days, with no significant changes thereafter.

“BJP has negligible presence in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Punjab, Delhi, West Bengal and Karnataka, which goes to polls this year. At the time of casting their votes, people will remember how BJP toppled the Congress governments,” Pawar added on Saturday.

He also termed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the appointment of election commissioners (ECs) a good decision for democracy.

In a far-reaching verdict, the apex court on Thursday ruled that the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and ECs will be done by the President on the recommendation of a committee, comprising the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice of India (CJI), to maintain the “purity” of the electoral process.

While the idea of thunderstorms may seem odd, given that summer seems to have set in unusually early, the occurrence is fairly common amid high temperatures, since they form when warm and moist air rises into cold air. The warm air becomes cooler, which causes moisture to form small water droplets through the process of condensation. The cooled air then drops lower in the atmosphere, warms and rises again; when this circuit of rising and falling occurs with large amounts of air and moisture, it creates thunderstorms.