Guwahati/Agartala: The Southwest monsoon has withdrawn from entire parts of Northeast region, comprising the eight states, on Tuesday, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said.

A senior IMD official said that the Southwest monsoon was withdrawn from the entire Northeast region, comprising Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura -- last year (2024) on the same date (October 14).

He noted that the four-month-long (from June to September) Southwest monsoon this year entered the region on May 26, two days after the monsoon entered the country through Kerala on May 24.

"Like previous years, this year, too, the Southwest monsoon was more or less normal in the Northeastern region," the official said, adding that for the country as a who

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