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lunar night, the country's space agency said, with another operation attempt scheduled for later this month. The unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down in January at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way.

China said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms “should benefit all member states rather than serving the selfish interests of a few”, comments that come days after external affairs minister S Jaishankar said “one non-Western country” was blocking UNSC reforms. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Thursday said member states need to seek the broadest possible consensus for a package solution through serious and thorough consultations when it comes to UNSC reforms.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for electronics and IT, communications and railways. Vaishnaw told ET that the government will be focused on execution of India’s first semiconductor fab project, by the Tata group, along with two other chip assembly proposals, in record time.

Piyush Goyal affirmed India's successful navigation through critical issues, safeguarding the interests of the nation's farmers and fishermen, at the 13th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference. Emphasisng the importance of securing their well-being, Goyal stated, «I think that India has successfully delivered on the issues that were our role and has achieved the outcomes that we expected.» The Union Minister underscored the primary objective of shielding the agricultural and fisheries sectors from any adverse consequences. «Our objective was that our farmers and our fishermen should not face any kind of harm, no crisis should come, and in that, we successfully did not allow any such decision to be taken that would harm any farmer or fishermen,» he added.

WTO ended here without any decision on permanent solution for public stockholding of food, and members’ inability to reach a consensus on fishery subsidies. However, the WTO extended the moratorium on ecommerce transmissions by two years. The MC13 was supposed to end on February 29 but was extended by a day as countries failed to reach common ground on food security issue, India’s key demand. The meeting of the highest decision making body of the WTO entered the fifth day on Friday with key members including India, the US and EU holding talks to iron out differences on issues such as agriculture, fisheries subsidies, WTO reforms and duty moratorium on e-commerce trade.

Matua belt of Krishnanagar on Saturday, other second day of visit to West Bengal. The Prime Minister will visit Krishnanagar, a seat won by expelled Trinamool Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra today. He will inaugurate an array of government projects and lay foundation stone of multiple several projects. Following this, he will hold a public rally and then head towards Bihar.

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NEW DELHI : All existing single-lane national highways will be converted to double lanes, and having two lanes with paved shoulders will be mandatory to get an NH tag in future, two people aware of the road ministry’s plans said. The new criterion will be defined in the rules governing construction of national highways. A paved shoulder is part of a highway adjacent to the regularly travelled portion on the same level.

NEW DELHI : Power distribution companies across the country are scrambling to procure more electricity than they usually do for summers, with hotter-than-normal temperatures expected until May this year coinciding with the national election. On Friday, the India Meteorological Department forecast ‘above normal’ maximum temperatures in most parts of the country until May. Plus, the general elections, expected to be held in April-May, could spike demand further as state governments tend to ensure uninterrupted power supply at that time.

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DLF, have recently acquired land in Gurugram to set up residential projects, while Prestige and Sobha also have their sights set on land parcels in the area, indicating keen interest in the city's real estate market. As prices have peaked on prime Golf Course Road and MG Road, developers have shifted their focus to Golf Course Road Extension, Gwal Pahadi, Dwarka Expressway and the Southern Peripheral Road (SPR). Local developers have also lined up projects across micro-markets, with Signature Global and Raheja focusing on Dwarka Expressway and SPR, while TARC, M3M, Smartworld, and Anant Raj have launches planned on Golf Course Road Extension.

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The Nigerian government has imposed a staggering $10 billion fine on Binance as part of a crackdown on the platform in an effort to stabilize the nation’s local currency. 

₹936.44 crore ($113 million) for "abusing the dominant position of its Play Store in the country" by compelling startups to utilize its payment interface, thereby earning incentives ranging from 11% to 30%, based on each app's earnings. While Google has challenged the CCI order, both the ongoing case and the latest instance are under judicial consideration. Final hearings on the matter are pending before both the CCI and the Supreme Court.

It has been more than three decades since Joe Biden passed out in a New York hotel and remained unconscious for several hours. He endured two brain surgeries to repair the silent ravages of twin aneurysms, or ballooning of arteries, one of which had ruptured. After six months of recovery, Mr.

₹3,76,217 in 2021-22 to ₹4,61,910 in 2023-24. Atishi claimed this is 2.5 times higher than the national per capita income and added that this represents an increase of 22 percent over two years. 2) According to official figures for 2021-22, Delhi was placed third in the list of per capita income behind Sikkim and Goa.

NEW DELHI : The divergence in gross domestic product (GDP) and gross value added (GVA) data for the third quarter of FY24 could be attributed to reduced fertilizer subsidy disbursements, said a senior government official. India's GDP spiked to a six-quarter high of 8.4% in Q3 FY24, surpassing estimates, while GVA growth stood at 6.5% during the same period, according to data from the statistics ministry.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—All this week, the news couldn’t have been brighter for Biden administration officials trying to slow migration through the jungle that connects South America with Central America, an essential corridor for would-be immigrants heading to the U.S. A Colombian crackdown on boats that are indispensable in getting migrants to the Darién Gap had left several hundred migrants stranded and far from its trails, local officials and businesses who cater to migrants said.

ALSO READ: LeT’s Tunda tells court he wasn’t arrested in India The central probe agency agency said 12 people have been convicted in the case so far. These 12 include Irfan and Hamir-Ul-Uddin who were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court on Thursday. Abdul Karim Tunda, a key accused in the 1993 serial train blasts case, was acquitted on Thursday.

₹150 crore (for five years) will lead initiatives to disseminate good practices in conserving big cats," Union environment minister Bhupendra Yadav told reporters on Friday. Globally, the ‘big cats’ include the tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, puma, jaguar, and cheetah. Barring the puma and jaguar, the rest are found in India, with the latest—the cheetah—having been translocated under an experimental programme from South Africa to Kuno in Madhya Pradesh.