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Plane crash: RAF pilot Sandhu named
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Over 300 killed, water scarcity hits major parts of the country
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Two pilots who died when their light aircraft crashed to the ground in North Yorkshire on Saturday have been named by local police as trainee RAF pilots Ajvir Singh Sandhu, 25, from Essex and Cameron James Forster, 21, from Sussex. North
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Ponds have dried up, animal carcasses lay strewn on the roads and households survive on a single pot of water per day. With the country hit by a heatwave that has claimed over 300 lives, extreme drought in different parts of India has made living conditions worse for the people and animals, alike. Jaisalmer in Rajasthan has registered 52.4 degrees, while the national Capital faced an unpleas-
ant 42 degrees Celsius recently. Down south Orissa endured 45.4 degrees Celsius, while Kerala dwindled between 42 and 45 degrees. In the north Amritsar recorded 42.3 degrees and Chandigarh touched 44.7 degrees Celsius. State governments are engaged in taking necessary steps; shutting down schools, arranging for potable water, and in the case of Bihar, forbidding
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