A blistering heat wave has been setting temperature records through much of South Asia since early April As hundreds of people suffered severe heat strokes in Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, the death toll in India has risen to 300. Officials have banned daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have already killed 80 people India’s meteorological department have said that the heat wave will continue over the weekend and is likely to get get worse throughout May and June, which are traditionally India’s hottest months This is the second consecutive year that India has suffered from a deadly heat wave, after around 2,500 people died in scorching temperatures last year. RT reports: Scorching temperatures have allowed at least three countries to set new all-time national heat records with Thailand, which has kept records since 1950, leading the way. After Sukhothai, Thailand set the first record of 111.7 degrees Fahrenheit (44.3 degrees Celsius), on April 12, on Friday a remote, mountainous province in northern Thailand, Mae Hong Son banked in a record in with 112.3 degrees Fahrenheit (44.6 degrees Celcius), according to Christopher Burt, a weather historian with wunderground.com. He added [...]