8210GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Power cuts, forest fires in South Asia heatwavehttps://tv6.news/power-cuts-forest-fires-in-south-asia-heatwave/Power outages compounded the misery of millions of people wilting in a heatwave across India and Pakistan on Friday, with experts blaming climate change for an early onset of roasting summer temperatures. In the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh hundreds of forest fires have broken out in....2022-05-01T23:50+0200tv6-cb373959829212c5d1e95c44305d07b820220501235000Climate change blamed for record-breaking heat in India and Pakistanhttps://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/2022/05/01/climate-change-blamed-for-record-breaking-heat-in-india-and-pakistan/March this year, with an average temperature of 33.1 C, was the hottest March in recorded history since 1901. On Saturday, temperatures hovered around 43.5 C in the capital New Delhi — the second-hottest April in the last 72 years. There is a possibility of a thunder and dust storm over the city on....2022-05-01T19:40+0200thenational-5b972f284c716fa2c494cfc7c308e36e20220501194000Despite an increase in forest fires, the Union government is giving states less funds to fight them In the first three months of 2017, 1.27 million hectares of land was lost to forest fires compared to 2.82 million hectares during the same period in 2021. Divyani Dubey, Factchecker.in · An hour agohttps://scroll.in/article/1022835/despite-an-increase-in-forest-fires-the-union-government-is-giving-states-less-funds-to-fight-themDespite an increase in forest fires, the Union government is giving states less funds to fight them In the first three months of 2017, 1.27 million hectares of land was lost to forest fires compared to 2.82 million hectares during the same period in 2021.2022-05-01T19:25+0200scroll-in-b827375773eec5ec8134f5140f0c0e0b20220501192500Himachal: Fire breaks out near mental asylum, Balika Ashramhttps://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/himachal-fire-breaks-out-near-mental-asylum-balika-ashram20220501200330/Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], May 1 (ANI): A major fire engulfed mental hospital and rehabilitation centre in Panajri area and Balika Ashram near Tutikandi area. The local administration also shifted 23 children from the Balika Asham at Tutikandi to a hostel in US Clum area of Shimla city as....2022-05-01T18:03+0200aninews-8db66f050ada13ac428f0b4e1b8d387f20220501180300