Author: Saakshi Sarode

According to the New York Times, they share the White House with President Barack Obama and First Lady Jill Biden. Naomi Biden’s wedding will be the 19th in the White House’s 222-year history, and only the second since the turn of the century. The ceremony on the South Lawn will go down in history as well. “I’m not aware of any South Lawn family weddings,” says Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association. A wedding in the presidential family at the so-called “people’s house” in a country without a royal family is often cause for national celebration and…

The 6-meter-tall launch vehicle Vikram-S, named after Vikram Sarabhai, the country’s space program’s father, took off at 11.30 a.m.  Skyroot Aerospace, an Indian startup aerospace company, is developing the Vikram family of small-lift launch vehicles. Prior to a full orbital launch, a suborbital flight of a rocket designated “Vikram-S” is scheduled for November 2022 under the mission Prarambh. Vikram-S, India’s first privately developed rocket, successfully lifted off from the Sriharikota spaceport today, marking the private sector’s first foray into the country’s space industry, which has been dominated by ISRO for decades. “India, congratulations! It’s the start of a new day.…

The COP27 ‘Biodiversity Day’ in Sharm el-Sheikh comes just two weeks before a high-level gathering of CBD States Parties in Montreal aimed at reversing biodiversity loss. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will be held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to November 18, 2022. Four of the Paris Agreement’s key architects, including former UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres, have officially asked world leaders to deliver an “ambitious and transformative” global biodiversity agreement at the upcoming COP15 on biodiversity.…

The G20 Summit is made up of the majority of the world’s largest economies, including both developed and developing countries; it accounts for roughly 80% of global GDP, 59-77% of international trade, two-thirds of the global population, and 60% of the global land area. It strives to address important global economic concerns like international financial stability, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting sustainable development. This year’s summit was held in Bali, with heads of state and government arriving one day before the G20 Summit. Yesterday, world leaders arrived, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “Everything…

All key numbers indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic in India is at its lowest point since the outbreak’s inception. The country had the fewest cases and deaths in the previous week since March-April 2020, while active cases fell below 10,000 for the first time since April 2020, and the seven-day test positivity rate had dropped to less than 0.6%. COVID-19 Becoming Endemic? According to the ministry website, active cases account for 0.02 percent of total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.79 percent. According to the ministry’s website, the country has received 219.81 crore doses of…

The 28-year-old food blogger who killed his 26-year-old live-in partner Shradha Walkar cut the body into 35 pieces had once trained as a chef. Shradha Walkar (27), a Vasai resident who was allegedly murdered by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala (28) in Delhi, wanted to end their relationship because he “mentally tortured her and physically assaulted her several times,” but she continued their relationship because he emotionally blackmailed her and threatened to commit suicide if she left him. Also Read: In Kerala, two women murdered in ‘human sacrifice’; one arrested “They were in a live-in relationship since 2019, but it…