Heat wave

Under Heat

Rajeev Deshpande

Severely high temperatures across northern and eastern India extract a great human cost and reinforce the need to reset urban planning

Summer Is Coming

Madhavankutty Pillai

Heat waves are predicted this year too and the consequences can range from deaths and food shortages to economic shocks

Taming the Invisible

Virendra Kapoor

The final word lies with the scientists working overtime to tame the invisible Wuhan strain

The truth about heat wave deaths

Omkar Khandekar

Scorched earth, death by sun and more horror stories about the heat wave. Our correspondent travels through the worst hit areas in Andhra Pradesh and finds out that the reported death toll is an exaggeration

India’s Ongoing Heat Wave

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Researchers argue that governments need to include heat hazards in their disaster management manuals. In India, heat relief gets insufficient attention