{"id":60132,"date":"2024-06-01T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=60132"},"modified":"2024-06-01T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T10:27:22","slug":"two-dozen-polling-staff-dead-in-50c-heatwave-as-india-votes-on-final-day-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/two-dozen-polling-staff-dead-in-50c-heatwave-as-india-votes-on-final-day-of-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dozen polling staff dead in 50C heatwave as India votes on final day of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59587\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/heat-india-48-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A<\/span>lmost two dozen election officials have<a title=\"At least 18 dead as scorching 50C heatwave batters India\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/india-heatwave-2024-deaths-air-india-b2554334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0died of suspected heatstroke in India<\/a> ahead of the last day of voting in the country\u2019s general election.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/two-dozen-polling-staff-dead-in-50c-heatwave-as-india-votes-on-final-day-of-election\/ar-BB1nr5g5?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0989e01a2fb34b7b89dfee862194b65c&amp;ei=43\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Almost two dozen election officials have\u00a0died of suspected heatstroke in India ahead of the last day of voting in the country\u2019s general&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Voting-india.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60134,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60132\/revisions\/60134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}