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CBSA raids Punjabi students protest in Calgary
Officers from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) visited — 'raided' — a protest site in Calgary where international graduates have been demonstrating, with participants reporting that officials checked their immigration documents. The CBSA is responsible for enforcing immigration laws, investigating potential violations and carrying out removals across Canada. Continued on Page 4...
US court sentencing in Pannun murder plot in Nov
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Canadian wildfire that forced 20,000 to flee may signal ‘new normal’
PENTICTON — A wildfire that forced more than 20,000 people from their homes in western Canada moved so quickly that crews had to abandon firefighting to help residents escape, a pace British Columbia’s premier said Wednesday may represent a “new normal.” The Bald Range wildfire erupted Friday near Summerland, a community of about 12,000 in British Columbia’s Okanagan region. By Wednesday, it had grown to about 184 square kilometers (71 square miles) after destroying homes and killing an 80-yearold woman. “There’s an important set of lessons for us to take about how quickly this moved and that this may be our new normal for fire speed,” Premier David Eby said. He said the blaze outpaced wildfire modeling and left some residents with little time to evacuate. Continued on Page 7...
Parliament panel finds Justice Varma guilty in cash-at-home case Justice Yashwant Varma, facing removal proceedings over the alleged discovery of unaccounted cash at his official residence, has been found guilty on all three articles of charge by the three-member Lok Sabha inquiry committee.
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Indian professor wins eminent Dirac Medal, joins Hawking and other physics giants
A US federal court has deferred the sentencing of Nikhil Gupta, who pleaded guilty to plotting the assassination of Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, to November 20. The federal court for the Southern District of New York had originally scheduled Gupta's sentencing for September 25 but delayed the hearing following a request from the “intended murder victim”. Continued on Page 7...
Deepak Dhar, an IINSA distinguished professor and one of India’s most respected theoretical physicists, has been awarded the 2026 Dirac Medal by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), a recognition considered among the highest honours in the field of physics. The award, instituted in 1985, has over the decades been associated with some of the biggest names, including Stephen Hawkings, in theoretical physics. Dhar is one of four physicists selected this year in
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recognition of their significant contributions to statistical mechanics. ICTP said the 2026 Dirac Medal recognises physicists whose work has significantly advanced the understanding of statistical mechanics, the branch of physics that studies how systems with a very large number of particles behave collectively. The field is not limited to theoretical research. Scientists say it provides tools that are increasingly useful in understanding artificial intelligence, complex networks, and even financial markets. Continued on Page 2...
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