The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday said that the southwest monsoon had advanced into some parts of the central Arabian Sea and some parts of Karnataka, Rayalaseema, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Westcentral and Northwest Bay of Bengal.
After the exit polls predicted a third straight win for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that the exit polls are laughable, asserting that INDIA bloc will get 295 seats .
After the two-month summer vacation, schools in Kerala opened on Monday with the state government conducting 'Praveshanolsavam' for the students who begin their new academic year, which is marked by revised textbooks and major changes in the way students are evaluated.
"I was in charge in Kerala, the way all our leaders and workers campaigned for the polls. Our votes have almost doubled from 12 per cent last time, it can go to 20-24 per cent. This is because the Christian community has voted in huge numbers," Javadekar said.
RSP leader Shibu Baby John on Sunday questioned the predictions of the exit polls, saying that the BJP will get much fewer seats than what was predicted by these polls.
"Heatwave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, Jammu division, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Odisha on June 3," said the weather bulletin.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a meeting to review the situation of the ongoing heatwave in the country and the preparedness for the onset of monsoon at his residence in the national capital.
The exit polls on Saturday predicted that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is expected to improve its vote share in the southern states in the Lok Sabha elections.
Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai took a dig at the opposition alliance, the INDIA bloc, while expressing happiness over the exit poll results that predicted a thumping majority for NDA in the Centre and an improved vote share in the southern states including Kerala and Telangana.
The exit polls on Saturday predicted that DMK and its allies are expected to win most of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Congress-led alliance will retain its dominance in Kerala with the BJP and its allies also slated to win a few seats in the two southern states