The Gujarat government will honour flydubai pilot Captain Smit Machchhar with the ‘Visisht Gujarat Garima Award’ to honour his bravery and the extraordinary act to thwart the Omani co-pilot’s attempt to crash the flight despite being stabbed, announced Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday.
The Nobel Prize 2026 in Literature has been awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Scientists have warned that super El Nino is continuing to intensify as new forecasts suggest that the climate phenomenon could maintain its grip on global weather well into next year. In this regard, scientists said that the event is now pushing into unprecedented territory, with vast swathes of the planet forecast to experience unusually warm conditions as the Pacific Ocean releases enormous amounts of stored heat.
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