- The Special Task Force (STF) of the crime branch has arrested the mastermind behind a racket involved in duping gullible persons by impersonating as fake RTI activists and government officials
- Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme
- ISRO Sunday said it has successfully reduced the orbit of Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lander module, and it is now expected to touch down on the surface of the moon at 1804 hours August 23
- Stateowned Bank of Baroda has put on the block a property owned by actor and sitting BJP Member of Parliament Sunny Deol to recover `56 crore through an eauction to be held August 25.
- Once bitten, twice ‘not’ shy! Snakes may rattle many but rescuing the reptiles is a child’s play for Pawan Jogpal from Haryana’s Fatehabad district, who is undeterred even after being bitten 10 times. Jogpal claimed he has rescued more than 5,600 snakes .
- The four-day Youth 20 Summit- 2023 concluded on 20th August 2023 with the unanimous adoption of the Y20 Communique. The Y20 Summit was held at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh from the 17th to the 20th of this month.
- The Central Government has granted 200 crore rupees as an advance from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to the Himachal Pradesh Government. This aid aims to support relief measures during the current monsoon season.
- The government will organize a three-day national workshop on the localization of sustainable development goals in gram panchayats.
- J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday defended dismissal of government employees who support terrorism and said the administration would not hesitate in taking appropriate legal action against such persons.
- Forty-five Pakistani nationals from the Hindu community were detained in Gujarat's Banaskantha for overstaying after their visas expired and their applications for long term visas were rejected, a police official said on Sunday. They were detained from Akoli village here and the process to send them back to Pakistan was underway.
- Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh returned to Rohtak's Sunaria jail on Sunday after his month-long parole ended. The Sirsa-headquartered sect chief is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman to address Chintan Shivir in Kevadiya today. She will interact with the G20 India representatives of the Finance track.
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued guidelines to lenders, directing them to categorize penalties for borrower defaults as ‘penal charges’ rather than ‘penal interest.’ The RBI’s guidelines emphasize that these charges must be “reasonable” and proportional to the breach of the loan agreement, without discrimination within specific loan/product categories.
- Police and Excise officials Sunday seized ganja and brown sugar worth around Rs 70 lakh from two different places in and around Berhampur and arrested two persons.
- Servitors of Srimandir’s Khuntia Nijog have urged the state government to make traditional clothes mandatory for devotees visiting the shrine. They have submitted a memorandum in this regard to 5T Secretary VK Pandian during the later’s Puri visit recently.
- The Supreme Court has directed the Central Information Commission (CIC) and the State Information Commissions (SICs) to ensure proper implementation of provisions of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 including on proactive disclosure of information by public authorities
- Water Resources Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary Anu Garg reviewed projects on climate resilient agriculture in a meeting held in the conference hall of Rajiv Bhawan here Saturday
- The annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas will remain temporarily suspended from August 23 in view of reduced pilgrim flow and track restoration works, an official spokesman said Sunday
- Russia's first moonshot in nearly half a century has failed after its Luna25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon. Following are details about the mission and what its failure is likely to mean.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sunday vowed stern retaliation for a Russian missile strike in the center of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others the day before.
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