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Jun 6, 2024 | citizenmatters.in | Sravasti Datta |Gautam Kumar |Ashutosh Tripathi |Sakthivel Narayanan P

India has witnessed intense heat waves this year with temperatures soaring above record levels, particularly in urban areas, sometimes even breaching the 50°C mark. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has observed that the country is experiencing the effects of climate change as extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall, heat waves and intense tropical cyclones are occurring more frequently.

Jun 4, 2024 | citizenmatters.in | Gautam Kumar |Ashutosh Tripathi |Sakthivel Narayanan P |Harshitha Padmavinod

The general election to elect the 18th Lok Sabha has just been concluded in the country. In electoral politics, public speeches, meetings, rallies, road shows and manifestos form an integral part of any political party’s campaign to convince and lure voters to elect them. Over the past few months, too, hundreds and thousands of such activities were organised by all parties in these elections. Sadly, environment got the short shrift in all of this.