On August 23, Zimbabweans waited in long lines to cast their votes in harmonized elections for president, legislators, and councilors. Unfortunately, the electoral process was marred by the detention of election observers and the continuous harassment of independent voices. On the eve of the election day, the Zimbabwe Republic Police arrested a total of 41 staff members and volunteers from two civil society organizations, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) and the Election Resource Centre (ERC). The Police claimed that their arrests were due to their involvement in what Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi called “subversive and criminal activities” to fabricate the results.…
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The Centre on Thursday formed a committee for ‘One Nation, One Election’ under the leadership of former president Ramnath Kovind. BJP chief JP Nadda, in this regard, also met the former president at his residence. Sources said on Friday that Kovind will explore the feasibility of the exercise and the mechanism to see as to how the country can go back to having simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls, as was the case till 1967. He is expected to speak to experts and may also consult leaders of different political parties, they said. On Thursday, it was speculated that the central…
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a whopping 7.8 per cent in the April-June quarter of this financial year. GDP, the total value of the goods and services produced by a country in a particular period, had grown 13.1 per cent in the corresponding period last year, while the growth for the whole of last financial year was at 7.2 per cent. The 7.8 per cent growth estimates the quarter’s GDP at Rs 40.37 lakh crore against Rs 37.44 lakh crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The Reserve Bank had predicted GDP Q1 at 8 per cent. While as usual,…
The annual Amarnath Yatra concluded on Thursday with more than 4.4 lakh pilgrims offering prayers at the cave shrine in south Kashmir. The 62-day-long yatra had commenced on July 1 through the Baltal and Pahalgam routes. According to officials, a total of 4,45,338 devotees paid obeisance to the naturally formed ice ‘Shivling’ during the pilgrimage. They said 48 people, including pilgrims and service providers, died during the course of the yatra this year and 62 suffered injuries. The deaths were due to weather-related incidents or natural causes, they added. The number of pilgrims who undertook the yatra this year was higher…
Aditya-L1, to be launched aboard ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on September 2, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, is the first space-based observatory-class Indian solar mission to study the Sun. Imagine a spacecraft, stationed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange Point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, a staggering 1.5 million kilometers away from our planet. This unique orbit offers Aditya-L1 the remarkable privilege of an unobstructed, continuous gaze at the Sun. Shielded from the shadows of eclipses, it becomes the ultimate observatory, capturing the Sun’s dynamic activities.By continuously observing the Sun from the vantage point…
Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover sent an image of the Vikram lander using its navigation camera. All previous images and videos from ISRO’s third mission were taken by Vikram. “Smile, please! Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The ‘image of the mission’ was taken by the Navigation Camera onboard the Rover (NavCam),” ISRO tweeted. The NavCams for the Chandrayaan-3 are developed by Bengaluru-based Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), where first Indian satellite was fabricated in 1975. In the tweeted image, ISRO marked two of the three payloads in Vikram lander — ChaSTE (Chandra’s Surface Thermo-physical Experiment) and ILSA…
Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, said that the upcoming G20 Summit holds significant importance for global trade, for attracting investments to India and for enhancing India’s role in multilateral organizations. Goyal said this while addressing the Northern Regional Export Excellence Award function of the Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO) in New Delhi. He further stated that India’s presidency will be recognized and remembered for many years as an action-oriented Summit where significant deliverables were offered to the world. Goyal noted that the recent G20 Trade Ministers’ meet in Jaipur…
The Pragyan rover of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) moon mission Chandrayaan-3 confirmed the presence of Sulfur (S) in the lunar surface near the south pole, the space agency said on Tuesday. In a tweet, ISRO said the in-situ scientific experiments of the mission are being continued. “Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Rover unambiguously confirms the presence of Sulphur (S) in the lunar surface near the south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements.” It also detected the presence of other minerals —Al, Ca, Fe, Cr, Ti, Mn, Si, and O—as expected, the agency said. Search for Hydrogen (H) is underway, ISRO…
In what comes as a major relief, the Union cabinet has decided to reduce the price of gas cylinders by Rs 200. The domestic gas cylinders cost Rs 1,103 per unit in New Delhi currently. The decision comes ahead of the assembly elections in five states, including Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, later this year. The move also comes even as political opponents have been targetting the BJP-led Centre over the issue of price rise of essential items like onions and tomatoes. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur further on Tuesday that the Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs, chaired…
The government has strongly responded after China released the 2023 edition of its “standard map”, incorporating Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin region in it. Responding to the media queries on the so-called 2023 “standard map” of China, Arindam Bagchi, the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that India has lodged a strong protest regarding it. “We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the Chinese side on the so-called 2023 “standard map” of China that lays claim to India’s territory. We reject these claims as they have no basis. Such steps by the Chinese…