RAS question
How many deaths from extreme weather events did India record in 2025 according to the State of India's Environment 2026 report?
Correct answer: (C) 4,419 deaths.
According to the State of India's Environment 2026 report, India recorded 4,419 deaths from extreme weather events in 2025.
Explanation
The State of India's Environment 2026 report, by the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth, treats extreme weather in 2025 as a near-continuous national disaster pattern rather than a set of isolated incidents. India recorded 4,419 deaths from extreme weather events in 2025. India experienced extreme weather on 331 of 334 days, or about 99% of the period covered, with events such as heatwaves, coldwaves, lightning, storms, cyclones, cloudbursts, heavy rainfall, floods and landslides. Option C gives the precise reported death toll linked to extreme weather events in 2025.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 2,419 deaths understates India's 2025 extreme-weather death toll of 4,419.
- (B) 3,419 deaths is lower than India's 2025 extreme-weather death toll of 4,419.
- (D) 5,419 deaths overstates India's 2025 extreme-weather death toll of 4,419.
Concept
Environment and disaster-management current affairs often include climate-linked extreme-weather data. RAS repeatedly uses report-based figures because they connect science, governance, agriculture and disaster preparedness.