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Searing heatwave bakes Delhi, temperature soars close to 49°C

Searing heatwave bakes Delhi, temperature soars close to 49°C

The Mungeshpur weather station reported a high of 48.8 degrees Celsius, eight degrees above normal, and a minimum of 27.6…

May 27, 2024

Delhi faces brutal heat as parts of city records 47.8 degree C, ‘red alert’ issued due to heatwave

Najafgarh reported a scorching 47.8 degrees Celsius, Mungeshpur 47.7 degrees, Aya Nagar 46.4 degrees, Pusa 46.5 degrees, Pitampura 47 degrees,…

May 20, 2024

Delhi reels under heatwave, max temperature to settle at 44 degree celsius today

The Air Quality Index (AQI) of the national capital was recorded in the "poor" category at 9 am with a…

May 19, 2024

Hospitals in Noida and Greater Noida prepare for heatwave challenges

Doctors say that patients primarily suffer from dehydration, diarrhoea and severe vomiting due to the heat

June 28, 2023

Labouring in an oven

Labourers, semi-skilled workers and street vendors are struggling to work and earn in the burning furnace of Delhi

June 9, 2023

Record-breaking heatwaves put half of Delhi’s population at risk: Report

The report said that by the 2050s, over 1.6 billion people living in over 970 cities will be regularly exposed…

September 14, 2022

‘Delhi doesn’t know about the benefits of matka’: vendors on low sales of earthen pots

The hottest summer in living memory could have been a bonanza for vendors of earthen pots but they are in…

August 22, 2022

Mungeshpur: Hottest spot in town

A combination of factors have led to Mungeshpur being one of the hottest places in Delhi: proximity to the Rajasthan…

June 17, 2022

Warm morning in city, maximum likely to settle at 44 degrees C

Heatwave conditions are likely to prevail in isolated places of Delhi on Monday with the minimum temperature settling at 26.3…

June 6, 2022