Daily Briefing: Delhi boils at near 50°C; Panchayat Season 3 review; Cyclone Remal wreaks havoc in Northeast; and more

Temperatures soared to near 50 degrees Celsius in parts of Delhi on Tuesday, with Minister Atishi urging residents to conserve water. She has warned that fines for excessive water use could be enforced if the public appeal for water conservation doesn’t produce swift results in the next day or two.

Respite from heat conditions for most of North India may be just a short while away with the southwest monsoon preparing to arrive in Kerala. As the four-month rainy season ushers in, optimism grows with the development of La Niña phenomena. Climatologically, La Niña has bolstered the Indian monsoon, bringing normal or above-normal rainfall to much of the country, excluding the east and northeast regions. Read our report for further insights on the influence of La Niña and the IMD’s monsoon forecast for India.

Meanwhile, cyclone Remal unleashed devastation across the northeastern states of Mizoram, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Nagaland on Tuesday, claiming the lives of at least 30 people, with 14 fatalities attributed to a single landslide incident in Mizoram. We explain why cyclone-rain triggered landslides in the North-East spotlight the need for building resilience to multi-hazard disasters. 

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‘He’s thinking about the game almost all the time’

‘She’s more aggressive… trying to checkmate often’

Amit Kamath catches up with R Praggnanandhaa and R Vaishali at the Norway Chess tournament. India’s only brother-sister Grandmaster duo opens up about each other’s strengths, the confidence boosters in their careers, and who wins their private duels at home.

‘RSS, Christian missionaries must join hands to stop love, land jihad of Bangladeshi infiltrators’

In an exclusive interview with The Indian Express, Nishikant Dubey, the three-time incumbent MP from Godda in Jharkhand, reflects on his tenure in Parliament, outlines his priorities for the constituency, and addresses concerns regarding corruption in the state.

📰 From the Front Page

The day following the arrest of two doctors and a staff member from Sassoon General Hospital for allegedly swapping the blood sample in the Pune Porsche crash case involving a minor, Pune police revealed that the head of the hospital’s Forensic Medicine Department reportedly exchanged 14 phone calls with the minor’s father within the two hours leading up to the sample collection.

“If we can speak to her, it means the message has reached the CM”

Campaigning in the Sangrur seat won by Bhagwant Mann in the last two LS polls, Punjab CM’s wife Dr Gurpreet Kaur draws cheers, brushes off criticism, and promises to deliver on AAP promises

On May 22, the Rachakonda Police Commissioner received a complaint over the ‘sale’ of a baby girl on the outskirts of Hyderabad. What unravelled was an inter-state child trafficking racket, which would ‘buy’ infants from the poor in Delhi and Pune and ‘sell’ them to childless couples in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for anywhere between Rs 1.8 lakh and Rs 5.5 lakh.

👉 Must Read

There has been little public or political interest in matters nuclear in India since the civil nuclear initiative with the US during the 2000s. C Raja Mohan, in his weekly column, argues why the next government in Delhi “must order a comprehensive review of the changing global nuclear dynamic and regional atomic challenges, and find ways to modernise India’s atomic arsenal and doctrine.”

A large number of Indians are falling prey to financial fraud carried out over the Internet, allegedly by criminals based in three contiguous southeast Asian countries: Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. We explain the different types of cybercrimes, and why southeast Asia.

🔴 And Finally…

From retaining its simplicity while casting its net wide this season to the subtle transformation of certain characters, here’s what Alaka Sahani thought about season 3 of Panchayat.

Delhi Confidential: The Apna Dal (K) – which is in alliance with AIMIM – had taken permission for a joint roadshow in Varanasi on May 28. However, there was one problem — the Apna Dal (K) leaders didn’t inform anyone in Asaduddin Owaisi’s team about the proposed roadshow. Finally, the two parties had to decide on a middle ground.

In today’s episode of the ‘3 Things’ podcast, we talk about the fire in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar, Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix win at the Cannes, and record breaking temperatures in Delhi.

Until tomorrow,

Sonal Gupta and Aradhana Kalia

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