AGARTALA, April 11 (TIWN): Tripura is recently burning with terrible heat, temperature on Tuesday raised upto 34 degree Celsius. However, the demand of watermelon raised high with this.

The temperature of the State is rising day by day. People fell ill due to the scorching summer heat. Due to this various diseases like diarrhea, dysentery creates havoc in the remotest part of the State.

With the arrival of summer season as just 3 days left for Pohela Baishakh, there seems to be a growing patronage among citizens for up market fruit juice stalls selling exotically named milk and fruit concoctions.

Many traders have set up classy fruit juice stalls for the season in affluent middle class neighborhoods. It is mostly the urban youth who patronize these `cool' fruit juice joints where they find it pleasurable to `chill-out' with friends at night. The availability of an assortment of fruit juices and milk shakes has come as an easy, though often expensive, way to beat the heat.