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North India turns red with heat as mercury soars above 49 degrees celsius on Sunday, residents asked to stay indoors

The heatwave conditions in North India intensified on Sunday, with the mercury touching a new high of 49 degrees Celsius. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the Safdarjung Observatory in Delhi reported 45.6 degrees Celsius

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The heatwave conditions in North India intensified on Sunday with the mercury touching a new high of 49 degrees Celsius in several parts of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

The heatwave conditions in North India intensified on Sunday, with the mercury touching a new high of 49 degrees Celsius. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the Safdarjung Observatory in Delhi reported 45.6 degrees Celsius, while Najafgarh in southwest Delhi and Mungeshpur in northwest Delhi recorded 49.1 and 49.2 degrees Celsius, respectively.

According to the weather department, the temperature in Rajasthan broke a 38-year record on Sunday. The maximum temperature ever recorded in the Banda district of Rajasthan in May was 48.8 degrees Celsius on May 31, 1994.

IMD said that the maximum temperature recorded in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, and Galgi-Baltistan was markedly above 5.1 degrees Celsius from the normal temperature, and in West Uttar Pradesh, East Uttar Pradesh, and East Madhya Pradesh, the maximum temperature was appreciably above normal, which is 3.1 degrees Celsius to 5.0 degrees Celsius.

Temperatures recorded in Rajasthan on Sunday:

Charu- 47.9 degrees Celsius
Pilani- 47.7 degrees Celsius
Sri Ganganagar and Jhansi- 47.6 degrees Celsius
Narnaul- 47.5 degrees Celsius
Khajuraho and Nowgong- 47.4 degrees Celsius
Hissar- 47.2 degrees Celsius

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Dust storms and thunderstorms are predicted over northern Punjab and Haryana on Monday due to a western disturbance, while a minor dust storm is possible over the rest of Punjab, Haryana, west Uttar Pradesh, and isolated pockets of Delhi NCR, according to the weather forecast.

Effect of heatwave on poor people

The vast majority of India’s poor labourers, who typically work outside, are vulnerable to the sweltering temperatures as the country struggles to deal with an unprecedented heat wave. And because of the scorching heat, the residents have been asked to stay indoors till the weather conditions set back to normal.

There is too much heat and if we won’t work, what will we eat? For a few days, we work and then we sit idle for a few days because of tiredness and heat, said the construction worker Yogendra Tundre.

However, the temperature on Monday was recorded at 41 degrees Celsius in Delhi, which is expected to be 4.6 degrees Celsius less than the maximum temperature recorded yesterday.

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Manipur violence: Centre, state announce Rs 10 lakh ex-gratia, jobs for kin of those killed

As per reports, the decision was taken late on Monday night, during a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah with state Chief Minister N Biren Singh in Manipur.

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Manipur violence: Centre and state announce Rs 10 lakh ex-gratia, jobs for kin of those killed

On Tuesday, the Central and Manipur state government announced ex-gratia and job for the family members of those who were killed in the violence.

The governments have announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh along with a job to one member of the family of the deceased. The compensation amount will have equal contribution by the state government and the Centre.

As per reports, the decision was taken late on Monday night, during a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah with state Chief Minister N Biren Singh in Manipur.

Officials informed, dedicated telephone lines will also be put in place to dismiss the rumors spreading that has largely affected the law and order situation and has become a challenge in curbing the violence across the state.

Reports claimed, it was also decided in the meeting to make essential commodities such as petrol, LPG gas, rice, pulses and other food products available in adequate quantities to bring a balance between the demand and supply, that is leading to a price rise.

Home Minister Shah landed in state’s capital Imphal late on Monday night, to take cognizance of the law and order situation and internal security position of the violence hit state. Shah was accompanied by Home Secretary AK Bhalla, and Intelligence Bureau Director Tapan Kumar Deka.

Upon arriving at Manipur, Shah held a meeting late at night with CM Singh, state ministers and other senior officials to assess the situation in the state and discuss further plans to bring back normalcy.

The state has been in trouble for almost a month now, first with the violence in Churachandpur, where a angry mob torched the Chief Minister’s event venue and later on May 3, after a clash broke out between the Metei and Kuki communities.

As per the official reports, at-least 75 lives have been claimed since the clashes broke out on May 3.

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Protesting wrestlers to immerse medals in the Ganga at Haridwar today

Wrestler Sakshee Mallikh, one of the protesting wrestlers in a statement released on Twitter said the wrestlers will go to Haridwar and immerse their medals at 6 pm today.

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Protesting wrestlers to immerse medals in the Ganga at Haridwar today

Amid the ongoing protest by India’s top wrestlers demanding action against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the protesting wrestlers have declared to immerse their medals in the Ganga river at Haridwar today at 6 PM.

The wrestlers after immersing the medals will stage a hunger strike until death at Delhi’s India Gate demanding action on the charges made by them against Singh.

Wrestler Sakshee Mallikh, one of the protesting wrestlers in a statement released on Twitter said the wrestlers will go to Haridwar and immerse their medals at 6 pm today.

Mallik added the medals are their lives and souls and once it is thrown in Ganga, there would remain no reason for them to live and hence they will stage the indefinite hunger strike.

The statement also took a dig over Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking whom shlould they return their medal to? To the Prime Minister who used to regard them his daughter, but they just couldn’t agree on giving the medals to PM Modi as he did not even cared to enquire about them but invited Brij Bhusan Singh on the inauguration of new Parliament.

It’s been more than a month now since the protest of the wrestlers started. India’s top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshee Mallikh and Bajrang Punia sat on a protest in Delhi on April 23 against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over the allegations made by them of sexual harassment of female athletes.

The wrestlers staged their protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi and on Sunday, the day of inauguration of new-parliament, visuals came where the police and forces were seen cracking down on the protestors who were marching towards the new Parliament building.

Dramatic visuals came showing a tussle breaking out between the protestors and the forces with both the side grappling with one another, the forces trying to arrest the wrestlers when they became completely furious and irresistible.

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Delhi Excise Policy scam: High Court rejects Manish Sisodia’s bail plea in CBI case

Manish Sisodia, the former deputy CM of the capital is also the former Excise Minister who was arrested by the CBI on February 26.

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Delhi Excise Policy scam: High Court rejects Manish Sisodia’s bail plea in CBI case

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, rejected the bail plea of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case on the alleged scam in Delhi liquor policy case.

The Court denied bail stating that the allegations against Sisodia are serious.

A single-judge bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma said allegations against the former Deputy CM are serious and as he is an influential man the possibility cannot be ruled out that the witness can be influence if he is released on bail.

During the hearing, the CBI opposing Sisodia’s bail plea stated that the AAP leader is closely associated with senior officials, bureaucrats and there are high chances of him influencing the witness if released on bail.

It added saying that the AAP leaders (his party colleagues) are in high positions and are making factually wrong statement to disturb the investigation and claiming Sisodia’s arrest as a part of political vendetta.

Earlier, Rouse Avenue Court, Delhi had extended Sisodia’s judicial custody till June 1 on the basis of a supplementary charge sheet filed by the CBI. The Court had also ordered the jail authorities to consider his request and provide him with a study table and a chair.

Sisodia’s counsel Dayan Krishnan in earlier arguments had stated that the CBI has no evidence showing his involvement in the alleged irregularities in framing and the implementation of the excise policy of the Delhi government.

Manish Sisodia, the former deputy CM of the capital is also the former Excise Minister who was arrested by the CBI on February 26.

It is alleged that Sisodia while he was in charge of the Excise portfolio had given licenses to private liquor vendors in exchange of a bribe that was later allegedly used by the Aam Aadmi Party in Goa elections campaigning.

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