Why Sunscreen Isn't Optional for Indian Skin Last summer in Delhi, UV index hit 12 on 15 daysβhigher than Miami's peak. I watched friends skip sunscreen, only to nurse peeling noses and dark spots by ...
What's Stirring Up This COVID Mimic? Picture this: It's May 2024. Delhi hospitals like AIIMS overflow with patients hacking away, running fevers up to 103Β°F, convinced they've got COVID redux. But swa...
That First Bite in 42Β°C Heat You're sweating through your kurta in Delhi's May scorch, and a roadside vendor thrusts a ripe Alphonso at you. One biteβsweet explosion. But if diabetes is your daily bat...
That Chilling Cough You Can't Shake Last July, during a brutal 42Β°C heatwave in Delhi, I dropped my room's AC to 20Β°C for some relief. Next morning? A dry, raspy cough that lingered for days, no phleg...
Delhi's Dengue Surge Hits 8,000 Cases Last week, Delhi clocked its 8,247th dengue case this yearβmostly kids under 15, per the municipal health bulletin on October 15, 2024. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes t...
Picture this You're refreshing the page at 11:59 p.m., fingers hovering over F5. Then bamβserver crashes. Thousands of Andhra Pradesh Intermediate students faced that chaos during the 2025 results rel...
Summer's Recipe for Disaster Remember that viral clip from June 2024? Nearly 300 kids in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada rushed to hospitals after eating suspect biryani at a summer camp. Heat turned thei...
Picture this: a 70-year-old grandfather in Noida, collapsing mid-morning walk on May 31, when the mercury hit 48.6Β°C. That's not fictionβit's one of the 24 heat-related deaths reported in Delhi-NCR by...
Why ORS is Your Summer Lifesaver in India Last May in Rajasthan, a 35-year-old construction worker collapsed mid-shiftβheatstroke from dehydration. Doctors pumped him full of ORS, and he walked out tw...
Picture this: Delhi's mercury climbs to 49.9Β°C in May 2024, and a construction worker in Rajasthan collapses mid-shift. Was it just heat exhaustion, or the deadly heat stroke that claims over 200 live...