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    Why is the current heat wave unrelenting? The anatomy of a power crisis

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    The scorching summer has pushed up the demand for electricity. Most of India’s power is sourced from thermal power stations. India’s coal logistics problem seems to have become an annual affair.

    India is scrambling to contain – or at least understand – the full ramifications of the heat wave burning the country as it cancels passenger trains to make way for coal-carrying ones, rushes to douse the fire of a landfill higher than the Taj Mahal in Delhi, and contends with a stunted wheat crop.The country faced its hottest March since 1901, the first time weather records started being kept.The scorching summer has pushed up the demand for
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