Chennai, Aug 7,2023: A day after it was slinged into the moon’s orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday night reduced the third Lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Orbit inside the Lunar sphere.
In an updated tweet, ISRO said “The Chandrayaanl-3 spacecraft successfully underwent a planned Orbit reduction maneuver”.
The retrofiring of engines brought it closer to the Moon’s surface now to 170 X 4313 km.
Srinagar, Aug 5,2023: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Saturday that the biggest change after the abrogation of Article 370 has been that people in Jammu and Kashmir are living freely.
He said not only has the street violence ended, but the schools, colleges, and business establishments remain open.
“Street violence has ended. The schools and colleges that used to shut for 150 days a year on the directions of Pakistan, terrorists, and separatists have ended,” Sinha told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Srinagar.
August 5 marks the fourth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which resulted in the withdrawal of the special status granted to J&K, which was also downgraded from a state to two Union Territories.
Sinha said people, especially youth, used to return home before sunset in Kashmir, but now things have changed.
“Today, shops are open in Polo View Market till late at night. Youth spend quality time holding a guitar and enjoying ice cream on the riverfront. This is the biggest change that has happened after long time,” he said, adding that people in Jammu and Kashmir are living freely now.
LG Sinha said the youth in J&K have got wings to fly in the last four years.
Phnom Penh, Aug 5 (UNI) The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) led by Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen won 120 out of 125 parliamentary seats in a recent general election, according to the National Election Committee (NEC) official results released on Saturday.
The Funcinpec Party of Prince Norodom Chakravuth gained the remaining five seats, said the results announced on the state-run National Television of Cambodia.
“Yes, the official results indicate that the CPP won 120 parliamentary seats and the Funcinpec Party earned five seats in the July 23 general election,” the NEC’s member and spokesman Dim Sovannarom told Xinhua.
Eighteen political parties contested in the seventh general election. The NEC said the CPP garnered almost 6.4 million votes, or 82.3 percent, of the total valid votes, and the Funcinpec Party received 716,490 votes, or 9.2 percent.
Hun Sen, who has served as the prime minister of Cambodia for more than 38 years, announced last week that he would step down and hand over the position to his eldest son Hun Manet.
However, the 70-year-old leader said he will remain the CPP’s president and will also take the
position of President of the Senate after the Senate Election on Feb. 25 next year.
Hun Sen said the newly elected National Assembly will convene its first session on Aug. 21 and a new five-year-term government led by Hun Manet will be sworn in on Aug. 22.
Hun Manet, 45, is currently a member of the CPP’s Standing Committee and a deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces.
Nuh (Haryana) , August 4,2023: Days after incidents of violence in Haryana’s Nuh district, the state government transferred the Superintendent of Police, Varun Singla from the district.
Nuh SP, Varun Singla, has been transferred and posted to Bhiwani. IPS Narender Bijarniya would now be the full-time SP of Nuh district, as per an order issued by the Home Department late on Thursday night.
Notably, Birjaniya has earlier served as the SP of Nuh.
After the incidents of violence, Birjaniya was given the additional charge of Nuh.
Earlier, clashes between two groups broke out in Nuh after a religious procession passing through the district came under attack, leaving two home guards dead and dozens of people — including around 20 policemen — injured in the frenzy of violence that followed.
Six deaths have been confirmed in the violence in the Nuh district of Haryana.
As the conditions in Haryana’s Nuh, Faridabad and Palwal districts and in three sub-divisions of Gurugram remain critical and tense, the state government on Wednesday announced that mobile internet services will remain suspended in these districts till August 5.
Furthermore, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said that police have registered 83 FIRs, and 159 people have been arrested after the violence gripped in Nuh and Gurgram districts.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanded a judicial probe by a high court judge into the government’s “failure” to prevent the violence.
Aug 3,2023:The death toll from a suicide bombing in Pakistan has risen to 63, officials said, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said “Afghan citizens” had been involved in a spate of recent attacks.
The blast on Sunday targeted attendees at a rally for the religious political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in the tribal district of Bajaur, northwestern Pakistan.
The Pakistani military previously spent years fighting the Pakistani Taliban in the region before declaring the district clear of rebels in 2016.
“So far 63 people have died in the suicide bombing,” Liaquat Ali, a spokesman for the state-run hospital in Bajaur, said on Wednesday.
Another 123 people who were wounded in the attack near the Afghanistan border are being treated, according to a hospital official.
Imphal, July 31,2023: A delegation of 21 MPs belonging to constituents of the INDIA alliance met Governor of Manipur Anusuiya Uikey at Raj Bhavan on Sunday and discussed the prevailing situation in the troubled North Eastern state.
The team, led by Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury, is on a two day visit to Manipur since Saturday and went to various relief camps in Churachandpur, Bishnupur and Imphal districts where they met the violence affected people.
Chowdhury, while apprising the Governor of how the people in relief camps have been staying, said people are in pain and sorrow, Feeling of depression and fear is also common in their minds. Almost all sections of society including women, children and students are affected and it is high time to take concrete steps to end the ongoing conflict.
It is not only a problem of law and order but an ethnic conflict which needs special attention and therefore, an appropriate step to end the conflict and to remove hatred among the communities have to be initiated to restore peace and normalcy in the state, the delegates said as they submitted a memorandum to the Governor and requested for effective measures to restore peace and harmony and justice. In order to bring peace and harmony, rehabilitation and resettlement of the affected persons must be urgently done, they said.
The Governor welcomed the team for their visit to Manipur and appreciated their efforts for the restoration of peace and normalcy. The Governor informed them that she is fully aware of the problems faced by the people consequent upon her visit to different relief camps in both the hills and valley districts.
Both the Central and State governments are making relentless efforts to contain the situation and bring peace and normalcy at the earliest and security forces are also discharging their responsibilities to save the people. She said, to bridge the mistrust between the two communities, hatred among them has to be removed and therefore all stakeholders should work in this direction peacefully.
The Governor appealed to the delegates to extend their cooperation to restore peace and tranquillity through a peaceful dialogue with the representatives of Civil Society Organisations of both the communities to maintain the status quo ante of the age old tradition of peaceful co-existence.
New Delhi, Aug 4,2023: An appeal was filed before the Supreme Court by Masjid committe of Gyanvapi challenging the Allahabad High Court’s order directing ASI to conduct a survey.
The appeal was mentioned before the Chief Justice of India (CJI) led bench, which said it will look into the issue and assign a date of hearing as soon as possible.
Lawyer Nizammudin Pasha, for Masjid Committee mentioned the matter before the CJI bench that let them (ASI) not to carry the survey mylords. I have emailed the order copy also.
The SC assured that we will look at the email right away and will try to list it.
Today during the day, the Allahabad HC had directed the ASI to conduct the survey.
It is be noted that a suit is pending before the Supreme Court regarding the maintainability of it.