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India saw a 55% rise in deaths due to extreme heat between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021, a recent study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, has found.
Exposure to heat also caused a loss of 167.2 billion potential labour hours among Indians in 2021, the study noted.
This, it adds, resulted in loss of incomes equivalent to about 5.4% of the country's GDP.
India has faced increasingly intense heatwaves in recent years.
India heatwave: High temperatures killing more Indians now, Lancet study findshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63384167