A woman shields herself from the sun with an umbrella as she walks in the garden of the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering under a heat wave that combines daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104…
Panaji: Catherine Fernandes remembers carrying a stone on her head as a ten-year-old girl, praying for rain. It was an old village ritual, the kind passed down without explanation, simply understood to work. Now 76 and living in Calangute, her knees no longer allow her to make that particular offering to St Anthony. But she…
Keri: Due to the relentless heat caused by weak monsoon activity, the water resources department (WRD) established a support dam just 1km away from the main masonry dam of Anjunem in Keri. This was to supply irrigation water to farmers. However, the WRD encountered an unexpected problem– a large number of picnickers visiting the site…
Lucknow: Residents hoping for an early monsoon respite may have to wait a little longer, as the meteorological department has forecast no significant relief from high temperatures in the state capital over the next three days.According to the department, monsoonal flow over the region remains weak, limiting the prospects of widespread rainfall this week. The…
Waiting parents faced hours stranded outside NEET centres in Ludhiana without shade or water Ludhiana: Hundreds of parents were left stranded on sidewalks in dangerous heatwave conditions without water, seating, or shade while their children sat the country’s most gruelling medical entrance test all over again.An estimated 5,300 candidates wrote the National Eligibility cum Entrance…
Patna: Religious institutions across the state have stepped in to assist aspirants and their guardians amid the ongoing heatwave during the NEET re-exam. The Bihar State Religious Trust Board has directed temples, maths and dharamshalas near examination centres to provide free drinking water, roasted gram (chana) and jaggery.Board chairman Ranbir Nandan said the initiative aims…
Kanpur: Residents of Kanpur continued to grapple with intense heat on Saturday as temperatures rose further despite intermittent cloud cover, with the maximum temperature touching 42.2°C.According to weather data, the maximum temperature increased by more than one degree Celsius from Friday’s 41°C, while the minimum temperature rose sharply by 2.5 degrees to 29.6°C. The combination…
Weather conditions across all districts of the Kanpur division are expected to remain predominantly very hot and dry with intense sunshine Kanpur: After a brief respite of two days, mercury levels once again surged across the Kanpur division, including Kanpur Nagar district, causing discomfort among residents on Friday.The weather observatory at Chandrashekhar Azad University of…
Students on their way to school in Bhubaneswar on Thursday Bhubaneswar: Amid continuing heatwave conditions across the state, the district administrations in Cuttack and Khurda on Thursday announced morning session for all govt and private schools from June 19 to 25.As per directives issued by the respective collectors, schools in both districts will function from…
B Sridhar Ishani Jamshedpur: A five-year-old girl died after reportedly getting trapped inside a parked car that she and her elder brother had entered to escape the scorching heat.The incident took place on Wednesday in the Tungri area under the Sadar police station limits in West Singhbhum district.According to police, siblings Ankit (7) and Ishani…
