June 8, 1998 (May 14) Tiger years, India more than two thousand people died in a heat wave.

As of June 8, 1998, 2775 people have died from the heat wave. continuous high temperature reached 49 degrees Celsius, the highest since
98 years in May, the capital, New Delhi, and in some areas of the country. The long duration of the heatwave, the breadth of the area, as many as the number of deaths, for 50 years.
plus some places without water blackout, causing serious consequences. New Delhi temperature has fallen, but the death toll up to the the Orissa high temperature but still not subsided. Pradesh died in a heat wave toll has reached 1279 people.