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Imagine a city known for clean lakes and maple trees suddenly having the dirtiest air on the planet. That happened to Toronto, Canada this week, as wildfire smoke drifted in and pushed its air quality past even Delhi's and Kinshasa's.
A spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two Russian cosmonauts just clicked into place 400 kilometers above Earth, kicking off an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station.
2 min read · 2026-07-15
Imagine your kitchen's rice and wheat jars are fuller than they have been in five years, right before a season that might bring less rain than usual. That is roughly India's position now, and it matters for food prices nationwide.
2 min read · 2026-07-14
Imagine accusing a rival of secretly luring away lawmakers, then getting a letter demanding proof or a ₹100 crore bill. That is exactly what happened between the BJP and Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
2 min read · 2026-07-13
Pour honey fast enough and you'd expect a splash, not a snap—yet physicists just watched a plain, springless fluid crack apart like glass, breaking a rule scientists trusted for decades.
2 min read · 2026-07-12
Imagine your school asking every family to deposit extra pocket money in a special dollar piggy bank — that's roughly what India's government is asking banks to do, but with billions of dollars instead of rupees.
2 min read · 2026-07-11