Aug 18,2023: Chandrayaan-3 begins its final countdown to a successful Moon landing. The Indian spacecraft performed a successful separation of the Vikram lander module from the propulsion module on 17 August, ISRO informed. Now, only a few days are left before the lander module will make an attempt to do a soft landing on the south polar region of the Moon on 23 August. If the Chandrayaan-3 mission succeeds, India will become the fourth country to master the technology of soft-landing by a robotic lunar rover on the Moon’s surface after the US, China, and the former Soviet Union.
New Delhi, Aug 16,2023: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved expansion of the Digital India programme with an outlay of Rs 14,903 crore.
The programme is aimed at re-skilling IT professionals under Future Skills Prime Programme, providing more services under the Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) platform, adding nine more supercomputers under National Super Computer Mission and modernisation of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) among others.
Digital India programme was launched on 1st July, 2015 to enable digital delivery of services to citizens.
“It has proved to be a very successful program,” said the government.
Providing details of the programme, an official release said that today’s announcement will give a boost to the digital economy of India, drive digital access to services and support India’s IT and electronics ecosystem.
The expansion of the Digital India programme would also enable setting up of three Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence on health, agriculture and sustainable cities.
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.
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.
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.