All 12 people who were injured were working in a farm field when the lightning struck them in Barpali block of Bargah district. CM Manjhi wished for their speedy recovery.

Deadly lightning strikes originating from monsoon rains kill hundreds in India every year, with more than 3,000 dying in 2019, as reported by The Times of India. The deaths were reported across 8 ...

Researchers say that lightning strikes have become increasingly deadly in the South Asian country, with over 101,000 deaths recorded between 1967 and 2020 – nearly 1,900 each year.

Lucknow: In a meeting with Isro chairperson and secretary V Narayanan, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday proposed that ...

Lightning strikes in the US an average of 37 million times per year. ... Compared to the average for 2016–2022, the red areas on the map below experienced more lightning in 2023.

India’s proximity to the equator and the Indian Ocean makes it conducive to thunderstorms.As a result, the country is also more vulnerable to lightning strikes. According to the Lightning ...

India saw a big jump in extreme weather events such as heatwaves and lightning strikes this year and related deaths rose to their highest in three years, government data showed on Wednesday, with ...

Lightning strikes in India’s Gujarat kill 24, more rains predicted. Gujarat is not unfamiliar with rain-related calamities but big rainstorms are not expected in the state during winter months.

This is the terrifying moment five students were struck by lightning on a university campus in India. CCTV footage shows the undergraduates sheltering under a tree during a sudden rainfall at ...

Lightning strikes have killed seven more people in India’s most populous state in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 49 for just this week and to almost 70 for two states, as the ...

Climate change is fuelling an alarming increase in deadly lightning strikes in India, killing nearly 1,900 people a year in the world's most populous country, scientists have said.

Deadly lightning strikes originating from monsoon rains kill hundreds in India every year, with more than 3,000 dying in 2019, as reported by The Times of India. The deaths were reported across 8 ...