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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A 2021 report by the Lightning Resilient India Campaign (LRIC) said there were 18.5 million lightning strikes between April 2020 and March 2021, a 34 per cent rise on the previous year.

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

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 ...

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.

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.