- NEWS Desk Local
SUN SUNI KHABAR MAY 7TH, 2016
President Barack Obama's popularity is growing just in time for him to wage the final campaign of his political life.A CNN/ORC poll published Friday found Obama's approval rating at 51%. He's now been in positive territory since February -- the longest period since shortly after his re-election in 2012. And 49% of those polled say things in the country are going very or fairly well -- up 7% since January. The late-term boost in popularity is good news for a President whose achievements have often come at a heavy political price in a deeply partisan age.
ALBERTA WILDFIRE EVACUATION
A raging Canadian wildfire grew explosively on Saturday as hot, dry winds pushed the blaze across the energy heartland of Alberta and smoke forced the shutdown of a major oil sands project.The fire that has already prompted the evacuation of all 88,000 people who lived the city of Fort McMurray was set to double in size on Saturday, the seventh day of what is expected to be the costliest natural disaster in Canada's history.Provincial officials praised evacuees for their patience and, in a sign of how long the crisis could drag on, said the cities of Calgary and Edmonton, many hundreds of miles to the south, were the best place to receive longer-term support such as medical care and emergency payments.
PLUTO BEHAVES MORE LIKE A PLANET THAN THOUGHT
Apologies to all of the Pluto-isn't-a-real-planet folks out there but researchers have found a way in which this ever-surprising world acts more planet-like than dwarf-like: how it interacts with the solar wind.During New Horizons’ flyby through the Plutonian system in July 2015, the spacecraft’s Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument measured what happens when charged particles streaming out from the sun interact with Pluto’s atmosphere.What was observed was a much less subtle comet-like interaction (as had been previously suspected) and more a hybrid comet/planet behavior, with the solar wind being deflected abruptly but relatively close to its upwind-facing surface.
RANBIR DROPS 10 KG FOR SANJU
Whiile Sanjay Dutt is excited about Rajkumar Hirani's upcoming biopic on him, featuring Ranbir Kapoor, he admits that he hasn't heard the script yet. But when discussing the project with a friend, he revealed that Raju and he will finalise the details before the film rolls in October. "It will be a collaborative project between both our productions houses," the actor revealed...Currently, he is spending some quality time with his family before he begins shooting for Siddharth Anand's action film by the year-end, followed by the next installment in the Munnabhai franchise. "But I am most interested in the biopic," he admitted.