The technology, developed by researchers from Zhengzhou University and Adelaide University, could eventually be used to make cooling clothes for outdoor workers, athletes, and anyone exposed to extreme heat.
Panel also recommended that MHA take steps to ensure more states & UTs adopt Model Bill on Maintenance of Fire and Emergency Services or align their fire services legislation with it.
Guardian reports on intensifying heatwaves in India and how workers are dying on the job; FT says New Delhi has opened consumer ecommerce to FDI—with a catch.
EDF has warned that up to five nuclear plants could face output cuts as hot rivers reduce cooling capacity, adding pressure to Europe's power system during another intense heat wave.
Preliminary data showed 5,486 excess deaths in the last full week of June, Robert Koch Institute expected to release its estimate of heat-related deaths later this week.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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