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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicHeat Action Plan

Topic: Heat Action Plan

What Delhi govt’s 2025 Heat Action Plan promises & what it misses

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.

Nepal has a plan to beat the hotter and longer heatwaves

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.

Election fever & extreme heat alert—state govts yet to learn from Kharghar deaths

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.

No schools in afternoon, 24-hrs power supply to health facilities: Delhi’s new heat action plan

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.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.