In the unrelenting heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal’s main hospital as temperatures spiked to 48.3 degrees (118.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the region of 5,75,000 people, most lacking air conditioning. “We don’t have money and we don’t have a choice,” said Ouhbour, a 31-year-old unemployed woman from Kasba Tadla, an even warmer…
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Old BJP hands sidelined in Rajasthan, new-look unit feels Lok Sabha poll result aftershocks | Political Pulse News
A month after the Lok Sabha results were announced, senior BJP leader Kirodi Lal Meena announced his resignation as Cabinet minister from the Bhajan Lal Sharma-led Rajasthan government. Kirodi Lal said he was keeping his word, having announced in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections that he would resign if the BJP lost any of the seven eastern Rajasthan seats whose charge was assigned to him by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP ended up losing four of those: Dausa, Tonk–Sawai Madhopur, Karauli-Dholpur and Bharatpur. Kirodi Lal’s resignation is…