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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicHeat waves

Topic: Heat waves

Urban India is warming faster, 3.2% of city GDP could be at risk by 2050—World Bank

Report studied 24 cities with focus on Chennai, New Delhi, among others. Timely adaptation can avert billions of dollars of annual losses from weather-related shocks, it adds.

‘They just dropped dead’—UP home guard who saw 3 colleagues die can’t forget those 20 mins

Within two days, 23 UP govt employees were admitted to the crowded Mirzapur district hospital with only one ER doctor and a few nurses. Nine of them died, with heat listed as a 'suspected cause'.

China faces severe drought following scarce rainfall & sweltering heat

Prompt action has been initiated by authorities to minimise impacts on agriculture, water and energy supplies. Harsh weather conditions likely to continue until end of next week.

HUF & puff and blow the inherited house down, and when election is 99% perspiration

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

IMD warns of likely heat waves from April to June

According to the IMD, the heat wave is expected to affect the country's southern and western parts.

Women, children trek miles in scorching heat to fetch water near Mumbai’s Telamwadi

Villagers say supplies run short from March to May every year, when temperatures can run as high as 40 degrees C (104°F), before monsoon rains bring respite in June.

With scheme for ‘cool roofs’ that absorb less sunlight, Telangana wages battle on urban warming

‘Cool roofs’ reflect sunlight and absorb less heat, thus cooling down buildings and reducing energy consumption. Under first phase, all buildings in 300 sq km area to get cool roofs.

With focus on improving adaptation, Harvard launches climate change platform at Delhi event

Launch followed two-day workshop on climate change with government officials, researchers, policymakers, and civil society organisations.

On Camera

How Gen-Z is changing the violent extremist landscape online

The evolving extremist threat now hinges on young people online, demanding new strategies beyond traditional counter-terror models.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.