Poor rains and a weak monsoon weather system is leading to a water shortage in India's cities and its vast rural regions.

India's weather office says Cyclone Montha has started making landfall along the country's eastern coast.

Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

Heavy rains have led to some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades in large parts of Northern India.