Cyclonic circulations have formed over northeast Rajasthan, east Uttar Pradesh bordering Bihar, and northwest Uttar Pradesh at lower tropospheric levels, it added.

Uttar Pradesh is the worst affected having reported 36 deaths followed by Bihar, Rajasthan, and Odisha, according to the data compiled under the National Heat-Related Illness and Death Surveillance by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). 

The fruit, once praised by poet Amir Khusrau as “Naghza Tarin Mewa Hindustan,” (the fairest fruit of Hindustan), is special.

Airline services to and from Dubai, Delhi and Pune were among those delayed, airport officials said.