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Incredible feat: Top US leaders celebrate India's lunar success
"Congratulations to India for the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the moon," Indian-American Kamala Harris wrote on X on Thursday as India became the fourth country to achieve the feat after the US, China, and the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Wagner chief Prigozhin feared dead in plane crash
Besides him, nine other people on board were also dead in the crash. Prigozhin was on the passenger list but it remains unclear if he was on board.
Xi says int'l rules can't be dictated by 'those with strongest muscles'
"International rules must be written and upheld jointly by all countries based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter rather than dictated by those with strongest muscles or the loudest of voice. BRICS countries should practice true multilateralism, stick to solidarity and oppose division," he said while addressing the plenary session of the BRICS summit.
Resource nationalism fires Sindhudesh movement in Pakistan, says exiled leader Sohail Abro
The Sindh province, located to the south-east of Pakistan with its borders touching the Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, is again in news over Pakistan’s plan to unlock mining activity in the ancient mountains of Karunjhar. Part of the Rann of Kutch, the mountains are sacred to Sindhis besides acting as enablers of groundwater recharge and sustaining wildlife in the region.
Key witness changes testimony in Trump classified docs case after switching lawyer
In a new court filing on Tuesday, special counsel Jack Smith's office said, Yuscil Taveras, the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, Trump' club in Palm Beach, Florida, retracted from his previous testimony after he switched from a lawyer paid for by Trump's Save America PAC to a public defender, NBC news reported.
'We're cheering for you': Astronaut Sunita Williams on Chandrayaan-3 touchdown
"I am super excited for Chandrayaan-3 on the 23rd of August. Good luck, we are cheering for you," the veteran NASA astronaut said in a video message shared by National Geographic India.
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk cheer for Chandrayaan-3 moon landing
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also reacted positively to the much-anticipated launch.
PM Modi holds bilateral discussions with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.
Trump gets $200,000 bond in Georgia election meddling case - but it points to the perils he faces legally
Media reports in the US, however, saw the bond secured by Trump as a great transformation from the “world’s most powerful man to criminal defendant, four times indicted, as he steals for another indignity unthinkable in White House years".
India will soon be a $5 trillion economy, says Modi at BRICS business forum
"Despite a shaky world economy, India has emerged as the world's fastest-growing major economy. India will soon become $5 trillion economy," Modi said in his address.
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