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Rajasthan

City to have rain till 14 May: Met prediction

A triple ‘weather system’ brewing from Bangladesh and spanning as far as Rajasthan is anticipated to bring further relief from the blistering heat that kept scorching south Bengal for more than two weeks.

Desert Storm

Summers are particularly severe in the Thar desert with temperatures shooting up to 50 degrees Celsius.

History in Mines

When political humour lands in troubled waters At Zawar, in the Mewar region of Rajasthan, zinc metal was produced by advanced processes at high temperature distillation a thousand years ago, almost certainly the first production of zinc on an industrial scale anywhere in the world, states the report titled ‘Early Indian Metallurgy