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Temperatures havel exceed 41 degrees Celsius: Image CNN

Indian voters are braving sweltering heat to vote in the world’s largest election, as a severe heat wave strikes sections of the country and authorities predict a hotter-than-normal summer for the South Asian nation.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), a heat wave will continue to strike regions of south and east India till the end of the week, including four states voting on Friday.

Parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka are among the 13 states and union territories voting in the second phase of India’s massive elections, with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius in some regions.

According to the IMD, Baripada in the eastern state of Odisha reached 43.6 degrees Celsius on Thursday, while Khammam in Telangana reached 43.4 degrees Celsius. The IMD warned last month that India would likely experience larger and longer heat waves this year due to above-normal temperatures.

Gandhi Ray, a 60-year-old farmer from eastern Bihar, said he lives in a small hut in the forest and plans to go to a nearby hamlet to vote.

According to the IMD, temperatures will exceed 41 degrees Celsius every day until May 1 in his homeland of Banka district.

“It’s important for me to vote but definitely every day this heat is getting worse and worse,” he was quoted as saying by CNN. “I generally work outside, so I’m used to it, but as I get older, it’s more difficult to cope. Now my children have taken up the majority of the work.”

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 2 Polling

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 2 Polling: AFP Image

High temperatures have sparked worry during election season, as outdoor political events draw thousands of people under the scorching heat. The issue was highlighted Wednesday when a politician fell from heat while addressing supporters in western Maharashtra.

The Election Commission, National Disaster Management Authority, and IMD organized a task group to reduce the impact of heat waves ahead of polling days, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a conference earlier this month to assess the country’s readiness for the hot season.

The Election Commission has issued instructions for remaining cool at polling locations, which include drinking water and bringing an umbrella, as well as warning against leaving children or pets in parked automobiles.

In Bihar, election officials have extended voting hours at several polling sites “in view (of the) prevailing heat wave.” Ray said the heat won’t deter him from voting on Friday.

“This is the one right we have so of course I will vote, everyone should vote for whomever they want to represent them,” he added.

“Of course it would be good if the election took place in a cooler time but whether I go to vote or not, I am still going to feel hot so that’s not going to stop me.”

Cuing in India’s Sweltering Heat to Vote

Indians Cue in Sweltering Heat to Vote in the World's Largest Election

Indians Cue in Sweltering Heat to Vote in the World’s Largest Election: Image Times of India

Despite the heat warnings, the Election Commission stated that there are “no major concerns for heat waves” during Friday’s polling, and weather projections predict “normal conditions” for the constituencies voting.

India, the world’s most populous country with 1.4 billion inhabitants, frequently endures heat waves in the summer months of April, May, and June.

Last year, multiple heat waves struck India, closing schools, destroying crops, and putting a strain on energy supplies. In June alone, temperatures in some sections of the country reached 47 degrees Celsius, killing at least 44 people and afflicting hundreds with heat-related ailments.

Extreme heat has already had an impact on the region this year, with hundreds of millions of people living in climate-vulnerable areas seeing no reprieve from punishing heat and humidity.

According to scientist Maximiliano Herrera, neighboring Bangladesh is experiencing a heat wave this week, with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius in numerous regions and no break from record hot nights. On Thursday, the government proclaimed a “heat alert” across the country, which will last 72 hours.

Extreme temperatures are also rising across Southeast Asia, with local media reporting dozens of heatstroke deaths in Thailand, hundreds of school closures in the Philippines, and droughts drying up rice fields and waterways in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta “rice bowl” region.

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Heatwave-Thailand: CTN News Image

Thailand’s Meteorologist Department issued further warnings about extremely hot weather over the weekend, and the health department stated that heatstroke had already killed at least 32 people.

Bangkok municipal officials issued an excessive heat warning, forecasting that the temperature would top 44 degrees Celsius. Temperatures in Thailand’s capital reached 43 degrees Celsius on Friday, with similar highs forecast next week.

Bangkok’s environment department issued a warning that the heat index was “extremely dangerous”.

A wave of extremely hot weather has hammered South and Southeast Asia this week, forcing schools to close and worshippers to pray for rain. Authorities in northern Thailand’s Udon Thani province have also warned of high temperatures throughout the weekend.

Temperatures in several provinces are expected to reach record highs of 43 to 45 degrees Celsius. Thailand’s health ministry said late Friday that 32 people have died from heatstroke this year, compared to 37 in all of 2023.

Direk Khampaen, deputy director-general of Thailand’s Department of Disease Control, said officials advised the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions, such as obesity, to stay indoors and drink plenty of water.

According to Save the Children, Vietnam’s weeks-long heat wave has prompted three provinces to declare a state of emergency as salt seeps into fresh water sources, limiting access to drinking water for over 70,000 households.

According to a report released Tuesday by the World Meteorological Organization, Asia will remain the world’s most disaster-prone region in 2023, and the region is warming faster than the worldwide average.

Source: CNN

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Democrats Now Leaderless After Trump Presidential Win

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Democrats Leaderless After Trump Presidential Win

Democrats spent billions of dollars with the legacy media to try and create fear among American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy; in the end, voters didn’t care. They chose to believe their own eyes and not the rhetoric.

Following Kamala Harris’ decisive loss, the Democrats are now entering a second Trump presidency without a clear leader, a clear plan, or an accord on the reasons for their significant miscalculations in the 2024 election.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

Trump’s promises to impose tariffs on both allies and foes and his threats to American businesses contemplating the relocation of jobs offshore were alluring to union workers.

Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of the far-left Justice Democrats, told AP that the party’s leadership must “accept responsibility for that a second”Donald Trump presidency was once again feasible under their supervision.”

Rojas charged that the Democratic Party is los”ng legitimacy among the everyday people and marginalized communities, who are continuously used as stepping stones to win elections. She also acknowledged that “there are no easy answers for where we as a coun”ry and movement go from here.”

The data indicates that Democrats have” substantial work to do.

Faiz Shakir, the Democratic strategist who oversaw Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, is concerned that Sanders’s Democratic Party will fail to engage in the necessary introspection after this catastrophic defeat.

He asserted that “a healthy party is challenging itself to conduct”that type of autopsy and hear what we did wrong.” “I am not even aware that such a process will occur. He asks, “Will the Democratic Party’s well-paid consultant and big-money interParty learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”

“Will they comprehend the political alienation and pain that tens of millions of Americans are currently experiencing?” Do they have any suggestions for how we can confront the Oligarchy, which is gaining economic and political influence at an accelerated pace? It is unlikely, he said.

Source: AP

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Kamala Concession Speech Trends on Google

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One day after former President Donald Trump’s historic re-election, Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the presidential race and vowed to maintain unity. Her concession speech trended on Google with over 5 million searches.

“I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign, but I do concede this election.” She stated, “In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.”

Kamala Harris acknowledged that there was no viable strategy for obtaining the presidency even though her speech was not what she intended.

In the center of Washington, DC, Harris delivered a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. Harris expressed her gratitude to the hundreds of campaign workers and volunteers who worked assiduously on her campaign and to the tens of millions of voters who cast their votes for her.

Kamala Harris also stated that the country should unite for a peaceful power transfer despite the agony of losing.

She said, “We must acknowledge the outcomes of this election.” “I conversed with President-elect Trump earlier today and congratulated him on his victory.”

I also informed him that we would assist him and his team during his transition and participate in a peaceful transfer of power.

In the interim, Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a caustic statement regarding the presidential election results, accusing the Democratic Party of having “abandoned” working-class voters. It’s unsurprising that “a Democratic Party that has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

Sanders, who secured re-election last night, stated that the party’s white working-class voters were the first to quit and that it now appears that Latino and Black workers are following suit. “The American people are enraged and desire change despite the Democratic leadership’s defense of the status quo,” he stated. “And they’re right.”

Trump and Vance were also congratulated on their electoral victory by former President Obama, who ardently campaigned for Harris in the final stretch before Election Day. This was announced in a statement published today.

“This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,” according to him. “But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.”

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Despite All the Odds Donald Trump Elected 47th President

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Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, a remarkable turnaround for a former president who refused to concede defeat four years ago.

Trump achieved the 270 electoral votes required to secure the presidency with a victory in Wisconsin. On Wednesday afternoon, he emerged victorious in Michigan, conquering the “blue wall” with Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris contacted President-Elect Trump to congratulate her and acknowledge his victory in the election. Shortly thereafter, Vice President Biden conversed with Trump to extend his congratulations and invitation to the White House.

Foreign leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also phoned Trump.

“I would like to express my gratitude to the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected as your 47th and 45th president,” Trump addressed a crowd of enthusiastic supporters in Florida before officially confirming their victory.

“Today, you demonstrated unprecedented attendance to secure a victory, and we have endured an immense amount of hardship together,” Trump said. This was truly exceptional, and we will repay you,” he added.

Upon his return to office, Trump will collaborate with a Senate that is now under Republican control, while the House’s governance remains uncertain.

Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks, cryptocurrencies, and the U.S. stock market all surged Wednesday as investors anticipated a smooth election and Trump’s return to the White House.

Trump has pledged to implement an agenda that prioritizes the substantial revamping of the federal government during his second term.

When Trump assumes office on January 20, he will face various challenges, such as global crises testing America’s influence abroad and heightened political polarization.

Trump has pledged to revolutionize nearly every facet of the American government. This encompasses the intention to initiate the most extensive deportation operation in the nation’s history, once more pursue a zero-sum approach to foreign policy, and increase the use of tariffs.

Upon his arrival in Washington in 2017, Trump was unfamiliar with the mechanisms of federal authority. Congress, the judiciary, and senior staff members who acted as guardrails impeded his agenda.

This time, Trump has declared that he will surround himself with allies who will execute his agenda without question and arrive with hundreds of proposed executive orders, legislative proposals, and in-depth policy papers.

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