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New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) It was a ‘proud and historic day’ for India’s 32 million-plus strong diaspora, which stood in unison with their mother country amid chants of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’, as the nation conquered the moon on Wednesday with its historic Chandrayaan-3 mission.From holding special screenings of the landing event, to saying prayers and distributing sweets, loudest cheers on the mission’s success could be heard from the community that is far away, yet not away from India.Capturing the excitement of Indians in South Africa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the country for…

Tokyo, Aug 24 (IANS) Japan started releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday.The water discharge commenced at around 1:00 p.m. local time (0400 GMT), while concerns and opposition persisting among local fishermen as well as in neighboring countries and Pacific island countries, as per Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, Xinhua news agency reportedTEPCO said it plans to carry out the first round of release over 17 days to discharge 7,800 tons of the radioactive wastewater.–IANSint/svn

Moscow, Aug 23 (IANS) Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who attempted an unsuccessful coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been reportedly killed in a plane crash in Russia’s Tver region.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.According to Russia’s Emergencies Ministry, all 10 people — three crew members and seven passengers — on board the private Embraer Legacy jet were killed in the crash.Russia’s state aviation agency Rosaviatsia said that an individual with Prigozhin’s name was one of the…

Washington, Aug 23 (IANS) The United States, which had helped in India’s Chandrayan-3 mission and closely tracked its progress, joined the world in hailing the historic soft-landing of the Indian spacecraft on the moon’s South Pole surface on Wednesday.“Congratulations to @ISRO and the people of India for Chandrayaan-3’s historic landing on the South Pole of the moon,” US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan wrote in a post on X (previously Twitter). “We look forward to deepening our partnership with India on space exploration in the years ahead.”The United States provided key help to the mission, as acknowledged by S. Somanath, Chairman…

New Delhi, Aug 23(IANS) Space agencies of the US, the UK and Europe have congratulated the success of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission.The Chandrayaan-3 mission, led by scientists at ISRO, made history on Wednesday after India became the first nation in the world to land near the South Pole of the moon.India also became the fourth nation to make a soft landing on the moon after the erstwhile USSR, the US, and China.The lander landed near the South Pole of the moon after travelling about 3.84 lakh km for over 40 days.”Congratulations ISRO on your successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar South Pole landing! And…

New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said that international rules should not be dictated by “those with strongest muscles or the loudest of voice”, indirectly hinting at the US while adding that BRICS countries should practice true multilateralism.”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.”Human history…

Tokyo, Aug 23 (IANS) Middle-aged and senior citizens in adult education have a 19 per cent lower risk of developing dementia five years later, according to a new study. The results also showed that participants who took part in adult education classes kept up their fluid intelligence and non-verbal reasoning performance better than peers who did not.However, adult education did not affect the preservation of visuospatial memory or reaction time, according to researchers from the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.”Here we show that people who take adult education classes have a lower risk of…

New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) As scientists look at the emergence of BA.2.86 Covid variant as a reminiscence of Omicron virus, they are in a huddle to find out if the new highly-mutated coronavirus variant will be a global concern or not.The new variant has been linked to six cases in four countries — Israel, Denmark, the UK and the US, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated BA.2.86 as a variant under monitoring.The lineage seems to be descended from an Omicron sub-variant called BA.2, which caused large case spikes in early 2022.In India, amid the detection of certain…

Tokyo, Aug 23 (IANS) The average retail gasoline price in Japan climbed to a new high in 15 years by rising for the 14th consecutive week, industry ministry data showed Wednesday.The national average price for regular gasoline as of Monday rose 1.8 yen from a week earlier to 183.70 yen per liter as of Monday, hitting its highest level since August 2008, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Xinhua news agency reported.The hike came amid a weaker yen and the Japanese government’s gradual downsizing of its subsidies to push down gasoline prices from June.Prices are expected to…

Ankara, Aug 23 (IANS) Forest fire continued to rage in Turkey’s Canakkale province after which several villages were evacuated and shipping traffic along Dardanelle Strait suspended.The fire started around noon on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported.Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli, who rushed to Canakkale to coordinate the efforts to contain the flames, said the fire affected an approximately 1,500-hectare area.”We use all our strength to protect settlement areas,” Yumakli posted on X in the morning, noting that the aerial intervention continues with seven fire-fighting aircraft and 22 fire-fighting helicopters.Officials cut the power and natural gas in some neighbourhoods, especially…