date:Jun 23, 2014
past two years, dragging on global prices. India's weather office has already forecast a high chance of El Nino, a weather warming event associated with droughts in some regions.
The monsoon typically arrives on June 1, but rains are late this year with the weather office expecting them to hit the southern Kerala coast over the next day. Poor rains could thwart government efforts to boost growth which has nearly halved to 5 percent in the past few years and curb inflation that has been running