Mishra emphasised that India’s approach to heatwave management is a whole-of-government and whole-of-society effort, involving multiple ministries and stakeholders.

The Karnataka government’s suspension of former Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda over the Chinnaswamy stadium stampede is not “rational and justified”, former IPS officer Kiren Bedi said on Saturday.

Riya Paswan gained fame in 2022 when she questioned a bureaucrat, IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra, about providing free sanitary pads.