India is now 'facing a collision of multiple, cumulative climate hazards', with extreme weather happening almost every day from January to October last year, said a team of scholars led by University of Cambridge's Ramit Debnath.
Gangetic West Bengal will experience heatwaves from 13 to 17 April, while northern coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha are likely to be hit between 13 and 15 April, and Bihar from 15 to 17 April.
The reduction in production amid a drop in inventories to the lowest level in 6 years may force India to allow imports after banning exports last year.
There were 27 heatwaves in total and lightning strikes rose more than 111 times, killing 907 people, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said in a report to Parliament.
Temperatures hit nearly 40 degrees Celsius or more across in 2022 & scientists from World Weather Attribution found that such numbers are 'virtually impossible' without climate change.
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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