Increasing deaths feared during heat waves in India: Study
The probability of India experiencing a heat-related mortality event has increased by 2.5 times after a 0.5ÂºC rise in country's average temperature since 1960-2009, a US-based study has warned. Heatwaves in India has taken 1,300 lives in 2010, 1,500 in 2013, and 2,500 in 2015, as summers grew hotter while 25% of the 1.3-billion-strong country don't have access to electricity.