Deadly heatwaves could hit India, says climate change report

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Deadly heatwaves could hit India, says climate change report India could face an annual threat of deadly heatwaves, like the one in 2015 that killed at least 2,500 people, if the world gets warmer by 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, says the much-anticipated world's biggest review report on climate change. The report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday. Living by the bow and arrow in Bhutan Every weekend Bhutanese Pema Dorji channels his inner Robin Hood and aims for the bull's-eye, but not without generous sips of the local brew and a leg-kicking dance and song routine. US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win Nobel Economics Prize William Nordhaus and Paul Romer shared the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for integrating climate change and technological innovation into macroeconomic analysis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. IAF celebrates 86th anniversary: All you need to know The Indian Air Force (IAF) is celebrating its 86th anniversary as October 8 commemorates the official foundation day of the force. The IAF, air arm of the Indian armed forces, has the prime responsibility of securing the Indian airspace as well as to carry out the aerial warfare during any clash. Here is all you need to know: Kanupriya Agarwal: India's first test tube baby celebrates 40th birthday She is India's first and the world's second test tube baby and the result of late Dr Subhash Mukharjee's work in IVF. Limousine car crash kills 20 in New York, nation's deadliest in a decade A limousine carrying four sisters, other relatives and friends to a birthday celebration blew through a stop sign and slammed into a parked SUV outside a store in upstate New York, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians. Three decades after nuclear disaster, Chernobyl goes solar Ukraine unveiled a solar plant in Chernobyl, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world's worst nuclear disaster three decades ago. Saudi controversies under Prince Mohammed Saudi Arabia has been engulfed by several controversies since Mohammed bin Salman was named crown prince and heir to the throne in June 2017. River freezes in Himachal Pradesh as temperature dips The upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh have received a fresh spell of snowfall with temperatures dropping to below freezing point. Unwise words by CEOs that have landed them in a soup Elon Musk cannot hold himself back on Twitter. He called a British cave rescuer a paedophile (he later deleted the tweet and apologised) and said Mark Zuckerberg's understanding of artificial intelligence was limited.

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