Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ List.

Overview of the news: The list include ‘The White Lotus’ star Jennifer Coolidge, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie, ‘The Last Of Us’ star Pedro Pascal, and Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Ke Huy Quan. This year’s list features 50 women, including Jennifer Coolidg…

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1st Black chief judge for New York state confirmed.

New York’s Senate confirmed Rowan Wilson as the state’s first Black chief judge Tuesday, two months after lawmakers dealt Gov. Kathy Hochul a political defeat by rejecting her initial nominee for the top court post. Wilson has been an associate judge of the Court of Appeals,…

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Asia Rugby reinstates Sri Lanka as full member.

Asia Rugby has made the prudent decision to reinstate Sri Lanka Rugby as a full member of Asia Rugby. The decision comes upon consideration of the Sri Lanka Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs confirming the cancellation of the gazette notification dated 01 April 2022.  Duri…

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China wants to start using moon soil to build lunar bases as soon as this decade.

China wants to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in five years, Chinese media reported, with the ambitious plan kicking off as soon as this decade. More than 100 Chinese scientists, researchers and space contractors recently met at a conference in the cent…

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Elon Musk sets low expectations before first SpaceX launch of Starship.

SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is preparing to conduct an unprecedented test flight of its groundbreaking Starship, which is currently the most powerful rocket in existence. Ahead of the launch, Elon Musk has set modest expectations. Key points about the first SpaceX launch o…

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Europe's JUICE Jupiter explorer probe takes 1st space 'selfies' on its way to gas giant.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has taken its first "selfies" from space, catching stunning images with Earth as a backdrop. The images were taken in the hours following the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft's departure from the European …

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World Hemophilia Day - 17 April.

World Hemophilia Day is always observed on April 17. Sometimes it is also called World Bleeding Disorders Awareness Day. The focus of the day is to identify and to reach out to new members of the bleeding disorders community. Hemophilia is a bleeding problem. People with hem…

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Kagiso Rabada becomes fastest bowler to pick 100 IPL wicket.

Punjab Kings fast bowler Kagiso Rabada on Thursday (April 13) became the fastest bowler to claim 100 wickets in the Indian Premier League. He achieved the feat during Punjab's match against Gujarat Titans at the PCA IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Rabada bowled a short-of-l…

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Nepal becomes founding member of International Big Cats Alliance.

Nepal has become a founding member of the International Big Cats Alliance. During the launch of the alliance under India’s initiative, Minister for Energy Shakti Bahadur Basnet handed over the letter mentioning Nepal will be associated with the alliance as a founding member …

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European Space Agency’s Juice mission launches to search for life on Jupiter’s moons.

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission (Juice) on Friday, 14 April, at 8:14 a.m. ET using an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Juice aims to explore Jupiter and three of its largest moons. Following a …

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Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is unlikely to find life.

Even after Europe's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) concludes its mission more than ten years from now, we are unlikely to know for sure whether life might be thriving in the vicinity of the solar system's largest planet. Liquid water, a source of energy and nutrie…

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ESA Is Launching an Epic Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moons.

This is one of the mysteries that the space mission JUICE (for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) – set to be launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on Thursday 13 April 2023 at 12.14 pm UT – will look to elucidate. To propel this mission to a planet located more than 600 million kil…

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The 62,000-mile-high 'Plasma Waterfall' that erupted from the sun.

A stunning solar "waterfall" has been spotted on the surface of the sun. The picture, taken by astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau on March 9, shows a wall of plasma being shot "some 100,000 kilometers" – or about 62,000 miles – up towards space,…

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Kenya launches first operational satellite into orbit.

Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk's rocket company showed. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental…

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The Great Bank Robbery NPAs, scams and the future of regulation.

Pattabhi Ram & Sabyasachee Dash has co-authored a new book titled “The Great Bank Robbery: NPAs, Scams and the Future of Regulation” which discusses 11 scams that have rocked India since its Independence(1947). The book is published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. V.…

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New York City appoints its first-ever ‘rat czar’.

Kathleen Corradi has been appointed by NYC Mayor Eric Adams to tackle the city’s severe rodent issue. She has been designated as the city’s inaugural “rat czar” and given the responsibility of minimizing the rat population and creating a cleaner and more hospitable environm…

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Turkey launches its first amphibious assault ship.

The Turkish Navy has received the TCG Anadolu, its first aircraft carrier, which is expected to house the world’s first air wing made primarily of unmanned aircraft. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the vessel would host many manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, …

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India to host maiden Global Buddhist Meet.

India will host the Global Buddhist Summit in New Delhi, where leaders and scholars from the Buddhist community around the world will gather to discuss contemporary global issues through a Buddhist perspective. The summit aims to find solutions to problems such as climate c…

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