NASA has chosen an initial team of 18 astronauts, including the Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari, to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next lunar missions, including sending the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface in 2024. Vice President of the US Mike Pence introduced the members of the Artemis Team on Wednesday during the eighth National Space Council meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. “I give you the heroes who will carry us to the Moon and beyond — the Artemis Generation,” said Vice President Mike Pence. “It is…
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Singer Taylor Swift has reportedly supported two women who have been suffering financially as a result of the current Covid pandemic. Nikki Cornwell, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Shelbie Selewski, of Harrison Township, Michigan, were included in an essay about Americans facing eviction, bankruptcy, and trying to pay their bills in the middle of the recession. Swift has agreed to help out by contributing $13,000 to each, notes etonline.com. Swift has left a personal note to one of the campaigns, sharing it with everyone. “Shelbie, I`m sending you this gift after reading about you in the Washington Post,” Swift wrote to…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron reached an important agreement on relations between China and France at the next point of the telephone conversation. In the face of growing turmoil and confusion, the contemporary environment calls for more accountability on the part of major countries, Xi said. Calling ‘freedom, common understanding, foresight, mutual gain and win-win results’ as the initial aspiration for the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and France, Xi noted that it is a significant agreement between the two countries to preserve multilateralism, to safeguard the international structure with the United Nations at…
US Top official has made shocking revelations against Pakistan that Pakistan is resorting to selling Hindu and Christian women to China as “concubines” and “forced brides”. One of the root cause of “forced brides” for Chinese men is “religious minorities, Christian and Hindu women, being marketed as concubines and as forced as brides into China” , according to Samuel Brownback, the top US diplomat for religious freedom. “That happened because there is no effective support and discrimination against religious minorities”. He listed this as one of the reasons for the declaration of Pakistan as a country of special concern (CPC)…
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, President of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, was discharged from a private hospital here on Wednesday following a “satisfactory improvement” in his health, almost a month after he was admitted to the centre. In a tweet, Medanta Hospital Director Rakesh Kapoor said, “After seeing satisfactory improvement in the health of Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, he was discharged on Wednesday.” “He went to the ambulance to Ayodhya, and a green corridor was made.. In a tweet, Medanta Hospital Director Rakesh Kapoor said, “After seeing satisfactory improvement in the health of Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, he…
As BJP President J P Nadda began his poll campaigning on Wednesday West Bengal, he accused West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of being associated with “intolerance” and exuded confidence in the creation of the next state government with more than 200 seats. Nadda, who arrived here on a two-day visit to West Bengal, criticised the “dynastic politics” of the ruling TMC and other parties in the region, and argued for the BJP “party is family.” “Today, I want to recollect what Syama Prasad Mookherjee had said about discipline and tolerance…it is very pertinent in the present situation in Bengal. For…
The Karnataka Government passed the Anti-Cow Slaughter Prevention and Protection Bill 2020, also known as the State Anti-Cow Slaughter Bill. Anger over the sudden introduction and passage of the Bill led to war of words between the Congress and BJP members. Terming it as unconstitutional, leader of the opposition Siddaramaiah said that his party will boycott the legislative session henceforth, while the JD(S) staged a walk out. Though the Bill passed its first hurdle in the Assembly, it needs to sail through the legislative council before it is sent to the Governor’s office for final approval. Taking the role of…
Pakistan resorted to unprovoked shooting and shelling along the Control Line (LoC) in J&K Poonch District on Wednesday. Defence Ministry spokesperson Colonel Devender Anand said around 10 p.m. On Wednesday, Pakistan conducted an unprovoked ceasefire breach by firing small arms and shelling mortars along the LoC in the Mankote district of Poonch. “The Indian Army has retaliated properly,” said the spokesperson. No accident or injury was reported from the Indian side before this report was submitted. At the beginning of this year, Pakistan has unpunishedly breached the bilateral ceasefire deal negotiated by the two countries in 1999. Pakistan has broken…
Parthiv Patel, one of the youngest to have played Test cricket for India at the age of 17, declared on Wednesday his retirement from all formats of the game, three months shy of his 36th birthday. Parthiv, who made his Test debut under Sourav Ganguly, aged 17 years and 153 days, played 65 international games for the country, including 25 Tests, 38 ODIs and two T20 Internationals. “Today, I announce retirement from all forms of cricket and as I bring down curtains on this 18 year-old cricketing journey, I feel heavier with gratitude for many,” the 35-year-old Parthiv said in…
64 ambassadors and high commissioners from different countries visited two key biotech companies in Hyderabad that are developing coronavirus vaccines. The envoys first stopped at Bharat Biotech based in Hyderabad and then at Biological E. “In a first, a visit of more than 60 Heads of Missions was arranged to the research and manufacturing facilities of the leading biotechnology companies, Bharat Biotech and Biological E, in Hyderabad,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava tweeted. Last month, the Foreign Ministry had briefed over 190 heads of diplomatic missions and representatives of leading international organisations on Covid-related issues. Bharat Biotech, developing India’s first…