The dust storm in Delhi-NCR Friday caused traffic disruptions and flight diversions. Police received several complaints related to trees uprooting, building damage & power disruption.
For the first few days, NDRF teams were deployed in the worst-affected areas of Gaziantep, just 23 km from epicentre. They have now shifted base to Hatay province.
The life-threatening, extreme temperatures have caused hours-long power blackouts and put millions of people at risk. Thermometer readings have already reached 46°C in some regions.
Normally sweat evaporates off your skin and you cool down. But with high humidity, the air is already saturated with water vapour, and so evaporative cooling stops.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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