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Desi jugaads during heatwaves: India’s battle against 45°C temperatures | India News

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Desi jugaads during heatwaves: India’s battle against 45°C temperatures | India News

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India is learning to live with a hotter future. From Delhi to Mumbai, temperatures are regularly crossing 45 degrees Celsius, heatwaves are lasting longer and cities are becoming giant heat traps due to rapid urbanisation and the growing urban heat island effect. But if there is one thing Indians are famous for, … Read more

Adivasis brace for another long battle as mining fears loom over sacred Gandhamardhan Hills

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Adivasis brace for another long battle as mining fears loom over sacred Gandhamardhan Hills

[ad_1] There is an uneasy calm in Kuradiphasa village at the foothills of the Gandhamardhan Hills. “It is the calm before the storm,” says Himanjali Das, who belongs to the indigenous Kondh tribe. Wearing a t-shirt and trousers, a watch strapped to her wrist, the youth leader in her 20s leans on her steel-blue two-wheeler … Read more