Delhi has already started recording high temperatures, with the maximum readings breaching the 40-degree Celsius mark. Forecasts predict a heatwave between 25-26 April.
The first step in Nepalgunj was for researchers from the Climate Centre and the Nepal Red Cross Society to identify areas of the city at greatest risk and the people within them.
On 16 April last year, heat complications killed 14 people after a political event in Maharashtra’s Kharghar. But peak-heat rallies with large crowds are still a cause for concern.
The DDMA, which prepared the plan & submitted it to Centre last month, also plans a pilot project to paint roofs in identified areas with white colour to help keep the indoors cooler.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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