Bombay High Court denied a plea seeking permission to install loudspeakers at a mosque in Maharashtra. The court stressed peace and dignity over noise in religious practices.

The flight safely landed at Thiruvananthapuram and later departed for Kochi once conditions improved.

Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase in wildfire over parts of the western US.