Author: Raghav Mehra

Asle Toje, a member of the Nobel Prize Committee who lives in Norway, denied multiple media claims that he had endorsed Prime Minister Modi as one of the leading contender of the Nobel Peace Prize. “There was a false news tweet sent out, and I believe we should handle it as such. It’s a scam. Don’t talk about it; just give it some oxygen or energy. I vehemently deny saying anything similar to what was in that tweet “He spoke Toje was misquoted by Indian news outlets. Although Toje made no reference to Modi being a contender for the prize,…

Shaktikanta Das, the governor of the RBI, received the “Governor Of The Year” award at the 2024 Central Banking Awards. Raghuram Rajan, a former governor of the RBI, received the honor in 2015. Shaktikanta Das has been recognised for his leadership, and for his handling of multiple crises that have arisen during his tenure. During his employment, Das has assisted in steering the ship through numerous challenges, including the Covid-19 epidemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The RBI governor has overseen world-leading payments innovation, solidified important reforms, and guided India through difficult times. About Shaktikanta Das, the Governor of the RBI…

Jaishankar calls out the Sharif government’s “hostile propaganda” on Kashmir and shames “insincere” Pakistan In an Annual Report for 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (India) claimed that Pak is employing “hostile and false propaganda” against India to demonise it and draw attention away from its internal and external problems. According to the MEA, India wants to have cordial relations with Pakistan as a neighbor, and New Delhi has consistently maintained that any disputes must be settled bilaterally and amicably in an environment free of terrorism and bloodshed. It also stated that Pak had the responsibility of fostering a positive…

In an attack on the Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) party chief shared an old video of an IPS officer asking for a bribe from a businessman on Sunday. He asked if “bulldozer action” would be taken against the corrupt officer. Anirudh Singh, an IPS officer who appears in the video, is apparently stationed in Varanasi. According to the video, Singh is heard ordering someone to set up a video call for Rs 20 lakh. According to reports, the footage was taken while Singh was sent to the district of Meerut. The officer has been…

Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi, and 14 other individuals have been charged by the CBI with criminal conspiracy and violating the Prevention of Corruption Act, and all have been given summons for March 15. The federal agency seized 1.5 kg of gold jewelry, 540 grams of gold and bullion, and 53 lahks ($1,900). The residence in Delhi’s New Friends Colony neighborhood is the registered address of a “beneficiary firm,” A K Infosystems Pvt Ltd, involved in the case; nonetheless, the ED claims that the Yadav family was using it as a residence.  One of the places examined was a home in…

A test flight of the Mars spacecraft is planned for late 2024, and work on the Marsoplane started in April 2022. As part of the agreement India and Russia struck in 2021 to expand their collaboration in space, this new Mars mission is being designed jointly by IIT Kharagpur and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the agreement on December 6 of that year in order to improve collaboration between ISRO and Roscosmos. Challenges: It is noted that the project’s primary challenges lie in the peculiarities…

Bill stated this while delivering the Fifth Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture here that India has the capacity to grow into a centre of “innovation and creativity,” to usher in a “new age of global partnership” which may address the world’s greatest issues. According to Bill Gates, who added that the Covid epidemic “catalysed” a wave of health innovation in India, the first 25 weeks of the outbreak ruined 25 years’ worth of progress in world health, and three years later, most countries’ health systems are still not fully back on track. Gates stated this while delivering the Fifth Ramnath Goenka…

According to the IMD, February was the warmest month in 122 years and the months of March through May would be similarly warm. This year, India as a whole experienced its highest February average maximum temperature since 1971. Despite the fact that the country as a whole experienced an average maximum temperature of 29.54 degrees Celsius, central India saw the second-highest temperature since 1901 at 31.93 degrees Celsius (IMD). An estimate by McKinsey & Company suggests that up to 4.5 percent of country’s GDP may be at risk by the end of this decade owing to lost labour caused by…

The protracted wait for the planned motorway that would have connected Bengaluru and Mysuru is ostensibly finished. Pratap Simha, a Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha representative, said that on March 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally open the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway. “On March 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway. Mandya, and Mysuru will all benefit economically from this road. We intend to organize the event at Mandya. We have never abandoned Mandya, despite the fact that Mandya did not choose our party to represent them,” Simha told the reporters. Anand Mahindra, the chairman of the Mahindra Group, also…

In connection with alleged corruption in the now-scrapped excise policy relating to the sale of alcohol, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained Sisodia on Sunday. After nearly eight hours of questioning on Sunday, the CBI detained Manish, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, on suspicion of corruption. In addition to searching Manish’s home, the central agency also searched the homes of three Aam Aadmi Party executives. On suspicion of corruption in the execution of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021–2022, the CBI has searched more than 20 places Manish Sisodia, has been remanded to CBI custody until March 4. In…