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TopicCanada wildfires

Topic: Canada wildfires

Canada battles wildfires as 20,000 Yellowknife residents evacuated

This is Canada's worst-ever wildfire season with more than 1,000 active fires burning across the country, including 265 in the Northwest Territories.

US Defense sends real-time satellite and sensor data to Canada to identify new fires

US already dispatched 600 plus firefighters to Canada to fight wildfires. President Biden, who linked phenomenon to climate change, said US officials were monitoring air quality & aviation delays.

Smoke engulfs western Canada as firefighters douse early season blazes in Quebec

Canada is enduring its most destructive start to wildfire season, with about 448,000 square kilometers – an area larger than Netherlands in western Europe – already burnt.

‘Climate crisis is real’: International help rolls in for Canada to fight worst-ever wildfires

About 4.3 million hectares have already burned, roughly 15 times the annual average of the past decade, forcing thousands from their homes in Canada.

Canada on course for worst-ever wildfire season: Where are they burning & what’s causing them

The forest fires started in British Columbia & Alberta. While most fires in the western provinces are under control, they have now opened new fronts spreading to eastern provinces.

US East Coast blanketed in eerie veil of smoke from Canada wildfires

The skies above New York and many other North American cities grew progressively hazier through Wednesday, with an eerie yellowish tinge filtering through the smoky canopy.

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Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.