 "File photo | Two men cool-off themselves under public water taps, during a hot summer afternoon, in Amritsar.")
July 2019 was the hottest July ever in recorded Indian meteorological history, and 65.12% of India's population was exposed to temperatures of over 40 deg C between May and June, 2019, the most widespread over four years, according to a new analysis.
In 2016, 59.32% of India's population faced a heatwave, the number rose to 61.4% in 2017 and fell to 52.94% in 2018, according to an analysis done for IndiaSpend by Raj Bhagat Palanichamy, an earth observation expert at the World Resource Institute (WRI) in India.
It was only in 2016 that
