AGARTALA, May 8 (TIWN): Tripura is burning with terrible heat with 33 degree recorded on Monday.

Many people fell ill due to the scorching summer heat as the temperature of the State is rising day by day.

 Due to this various diseases like diarrhea, dysentery creates havoc in the remotest part of the State.

However Meteorological Department announces the arrival of monsoon in the next 4-5 days.

According to the MET Department, the maximum temperature recorded for the day is nearly 36 degree centigrade while the minimum temperature is 29 degree. The temperature will rise further- told MET. is 3 times high than the original one.

With the arrival of summer, , 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.