The largest group of fires, dubbed the LNU Lightning Complex, had scorched nearly 220,000 acres (89,000 hectares) by Friday morning and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents. Some of the fires in that complex — described as the ninth largest in the state’s history — threatened wineries …
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Brazilian Amazon fires surged in July: Satellite data
Brazil’s national space agency, INPE, identified 6,803 fires in the Amazon region in July 2020, up from 5,318 the year before. The figure is all the more troubling given that 2019 was already a devastating year for fires in the Amazon, triggering global outcry. That has put pressure on Brazil, …
Read More »California’s Mendocino complex of fires now largest in state’s history
California has been dealing with record breaking fires for the past month and they aren’t even halfway through their fire season. The Mendocino Complex eclipsed last year’s Thomas fire which burned 283,800 acres last December 2017 in Ventura and Santa Barbara. Besides the huge and horrifying Mendocino Complex, there are …
Read More »Chadli fires Belgium into World Cup’s last eight
Chadli’s superbly worked goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time yesterday was the final act of an epic last-16 battle that saw Belgium become the first team in 48 years to successfully overturn a 2-0 deficit in a World Cup knockout game. The Red Devils will face five-time champions …
Read More »India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile
The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher stationed at Launchpad 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here at 10.40 am, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials said. The trial was conducted to validate its “life extension” technologies developed for the first time in India …
Read More »Sushil Modi fires fresh salvo against Lalu Prasad and family
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi fired a fresh salvo at RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family for reportedly acquiring a property worth over Rs 3 crore in a posh locality of the state capital through a shell company. Addressing a press conference here, the minister produced …
Read More »67-yr old gardener open fires inside government school in Dungarpur, 3 kids hurt
Udaipur : Irritated by students who crept inside his garden and plucked fruits and vegetables, a cultivator opened rounds of fire at one of the classrooms of Government Maharawal senior secondary school in Dungarpur city on Wednesday morning. The school building is a large palatial one, of the Wagad princely state …
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