Over 8,000 accidental deaths in 2022 due to forces of nature, 35% due to lightning: NCRB

NCRB released its 56th annual edition of ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India’ on December 1, 2022

Lightning kills 83 people in Bihar

Many of the victims were farmers, who were sowing paddy in their fields

'Andhra Pradesh lightning strikes were not record breaking'

Down To Earth interviews Earth Networks, a global organisation which helps track lightning strikes through a network of sensors placed around the …

What caused 41,000 lightning strikes across India on April 16?

Lightning strikes kill more people in India than any other extreme weather event but they go largely unnoticed

Scientists have started steering lightning with lasers — here’s how

Lightning kills thousands of people annually; only protection we have is lightning rods, which were invented 300 years ago 

Jharkhand farmers, tribal areas remain at mercy of lightning

Over 500 died in the last decade due to lightning; Schools say conductors don't work, get stolen 

South America witnessed extreme lightning strikes in 2018, 2019: WMO

While a strike in Brazil travelled the longest distance, one in Argentina lasted for the longest duration recorded till now  

Lightning claims more lives in Odisha than any other calamity

14 deaths on September 16 takes this year's toll up to 191; Centre ignores state's plea to declare lightning a natural calamity