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Tok Mukluk Fire: Evacuation map, latest updates as blaze grows near Alaska Highway in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area

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fast-moving wildfire in Tok, Alaska has prompted evacuation orders. (Unsplash/ Representational)

Update: The fire is now 100 acres per the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). fast-moving wildfire in Tok, Alaska has prompted evacuation orders. (Unsplash/ Representational) As of 2:25pm local time, nine smokejumpers, the CATG (Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments) squad of firefighters, local fire departments, and numerous Division of Forestry & Fire Protection engines, as … Read more

Australia census asks about sexual orientation, gender for first time

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Australia census asks about sexual orientation, gender for first time

Woman logs onto the census website as her husband holds their daughter while their son plays behind them, in Sydney. (Photo: AP) Australians aged 16 and over are being asked optional questions about their sexual orientation and gender for the first time in the country’s census, after the Labor government reversed an earlier decision to … Read more

‘A gift wrapped in barbed wire’: Tharoor slams Center for linking women’s quota to delimitation bill

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'A gift wrapped in barbed wire': Tharoor slams Center for linking women's quota to delimitation bill

New Delhi: Senior Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor on Friday termed the proposed delimitation exercise as “political demonetisation” and criticized the Center for linking implementation of women’s reservation to expansion of Parliament and re-delimitation of constituencies based on census.Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on three bills related to the Women’s Reservation Act Amendment … Read more

Women’s quota bill: Opposition spars with government over delimitation – Highlights from special session of Parliament

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Women's quota bill: Opposition spars with government over delimitation - Highlights from special session of Parliament

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha witnessed a showdown between the opposition and the finance minister as the government on Thursday introduced a bill to amend the women’s quota law and set up a delimitation commission.Soon after federal law minister takes charge, house erupts Arjun Ram Meghwal Introducing the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill and the Delimitation … Read more

2027 Census begins: President Murmu, Prime Minister Modi and other leaders complete self-count

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2027 Census begins: President Murmu, Prime Minister Modi and other leaders complete self-count

New Delhi: President Drupadi Murmu on Wednesday participated in a self-examination exercise for Census 2027 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, according to the President’s Office.The office said in a post onVice President CP Radhakrishnan also filled up the self-enumeration form for Census 2027 online at the Vice President’s residence on Wednesday, according to an official statement.The … Read more