Author: Sayani Banerjee

'Books are your best friend' – this is the only mantra that I've clung to throughout my student life and as a bookworm how could I resist trying my hand at writing. A part-time University student and a full-time fiction reader, I love to create imaginary situations in my head that sometimes make their way onto the pages of my diary. And on days when I skip reading, you'd probably find me on my terrace with my plants and some good old 90's music.

Possible collaboration between Indian, Australian and Dutch space centres is on the way

The dignitaries of recently built space organisations in Australia and the Netherlands have communicated their desire to do a collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation, (ISRO) in their upcoming ventures. They want to get together with ISRO and work in collaboration with them, progressing in astronomical advancement for all the countries involved. Australia and the Netherlands, despite decades of knowledge and expertise in space technology, could establish their space agencies only over the last decade. During the inauguration session on “Building NewSpace in India” at the International Space Conference, the spokesperson of the foreign space agencies expressed their wish…

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The victim’s daughters lean in for suggestions to cope with their loss when captured, Mumbai police’s comments get criticised. In all, Mumbai witnesses’ political outrage as the Saki Naka rape and murder case shakes the entire country. A middle-aged woman of Saki Naka, Mumbai, was raped and then brutally murdered with an iron rod inserted in her privates that reached her abdomen. After their arrival, the police saw the woman lying in a pool of her blood and immediately rushed her to Rajawadi hospital. What Took Place In the early hours of Friday, the police control room received a call…

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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari plans to build more ELF to enhance highway safety and strategically necessary borders security. On Thursday, after inaugurating India’s first emergency landing facility on National Highway 925A in Rajasthan, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highway, Nitin Gadkari, declared a significant decision. He said that the nineteen other ELFs would be built to enhance our country’s security and protect the politically important borders. The ELF on NH925A A 3-kilometre segment of the Satta-Gandharv stretch got transformed into an ELF for the Indian Air Force. It is another part of…

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Strict Order From Supreme Court Forces Railway To Compensate For Late Arrivals 

The Supreme Court made a significant decision and ordered the Northern Western Railway to compensate if trains arrived late without justified reasons. The appeal of Northern Western Railway remained unpermitted against the judgement of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which was overseen by a bench of justices, M R Shah and Aniruddha Bose. What is the Reason Behind This? According to the Supreme Court, to survive against the private players and stay relevant, public transports will have to be accountable for their actions and repay when punctuality gets broken. The ordinary person should not have to approach the…

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Kerala desires COWIN to reduce the vaccination gap for people availing of paid vaccinations. What took place on Monday? On Monday, Kerala High Court had sent a petition to the Centre to change the span of gap advised for the Covisheild vaccine in the portal of Co-win for those who can afford paid vaccines from private institutions. In a writ petition to the Centre, HC of Kerala mentioned that a garment manufacturing and exporting company, Kitex, had purchased covishield for vaccinating its employees. But those vaccines could not be dispensed to the workers since the Centre must maintain the gap of 12 to 16 weeks, along with…

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ISRO feels the scientific arena is expanding in India as Chandrayaan 2 successfully finishes two whole years orbiting the Moon. Chandrayaan 2 is equally successful after Chandrayaan 1 in providing essential data of the Moon. On Monday, September 6th 2021, the esteemed lunar mission Chandrayaan 2’s orbiter successfully finished two years orbiting the Moon. To memorialize the event, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) arranged for a two-day Lunar Science Workshop 2021 where the chairperson, Dr K Sivan, also released the data of the Moon collected by the orbiter. The Workshop, discoveries and more In the introductory speech, the chairman mentioned the eight payloads onboard Chandrayaan 2 are overseeing remote sensing and in-situ…

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Google Alarms Bug Is Helping People Get That Extra Hour of Sleep

A March 2021 update has infected our android alarms to stop working and let us sleep through the day. The inoperative alarm makes a couple of Pixel users suffer the erratic behaviour of Google Alarm Clock. They wrote about this on Reddit, where they mentioned that their morning and evening alarms were notified as missed without going off on time. They cleared out the storage and cache and even restarted the devices, but the issue still prevailed. Soon, this problem was reported by several others, some of whom even brought down the app’s overall rating on the Google Play store.…

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Domestic products may find more purchasers as imports tend to go up during August month trade deficit and decrease in Export.  India records an unforeseen increase in imports this year in August compared to exports resulting in a trade deficit that stands at a rounded $13.9 billion. In the previous year, the country’s exports did not see a rise. This year, they increased by 45.17% to $33.14 billion compared to $22.83 billion of last year in the same month and 27.5% before the pandemic era.  What took place in the month of August    This year India imported superfluously, increasing…

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Emergence of Qatar as the Regional Winner in New Afghanistan

Crucial role for tiny Qatar as a mediator of new Afghanistan. As the United States ceases it’s operations in Afghanistan, letting the Taliban take complete control over the country, Qatar finds itself getting extolled for the arbitrary connection it has maintained with both the USA and the fundamentalist Islamic militia of Afghanistan. Qatar is viewed as the only country to have the ability to coax the Afghan militants to maintain a connection with the rest of the world. Qatar’s desire to play a regional power broker in Afghanistan is well established for a long time. Recently for a few weeks,…

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