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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for the BRICS summit in Johannesburg today, all eyes are on a possible meeting between him and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Saying that the schedule is “still evolving”, officials did not rule out a meeting between the two leaders. If it happens, it would be their first scheduled bilateral meeting since the border standoff began in May 2020. Find out more about what’s on the agenda at BRICS summit here
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“It’s tough for me to hear about these incidents, which is why I started the movement against ragging. There are stories of children from some corners of the country that don’t even make it to the news.”
Rajendra Kachroo started an NGO against ragging after he lost his son Aman in 2009 and was part of the UGC’s anti-ragging committee for nearly a decade. In an interaction with The Indian Express, following the suicide of a 17-year-old at Jadavpur University, allegedly due to ragging, he said that such incidents cannot be “brushed under the carpet”.
📰 From the Front Page
The committee of former HC judges appointed by the Supreme Court to oversee relief and rehabilitation in Manipur has submitted 3 reports — on loss and reconstruction of “essential documentation”; upgrading the compensation; and appointment of domain experts to facilitate its work. Take a look at what the reports say here
🚀 Ahead of its scheduled Moon landing on Wednesday, Chandrayaan-3’s lander module established contact with the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter, opening up another line of communication with Earth. ISRO said the orbiter greeted the lander with the message “welcome, buddy”.
We also explain why the last 15 minutes of Chandrayaan-3’s mission will hold the key to its success.
♟️In the post-pandemic world, a new tidal wave of Indian teenagers had swamped the chess landscape, but the 18-year-old R Praggnanandhaa remains the OG, the original child prodigy.
On Monday, he nudged a reminder by downing the reigning US chess champion Fabiano Caruana via the tiebreaker to enter the final in Baku, where Magnus Carlsen, the modern day chess genius, another OG, awaits him.
🧅 “We have given the government three days to reconsider its decision. If there is no rollback, we will march with our tractors to Mumbai,” warned Deepak Pagar, a 20-acre farmer from Utrane village in Nashik’s Baglan taluka.
Agricultural produce markets across Nashik – including the two major ones of Lasalgaon and Pimpalgaon for onions – were shut on Monday, as traders boycotted auctions to protest against the Centre’s decision to impose a 40 per cent duty on onion exports. Find out what the strike is about and what’s happening to onion prices
👩💻 Must read
In their column for our opinion section, Isha Suri and Rajat Kathuria write on the gaps in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: “One of the overarching goals of the legislation is to strike a balance between protecting personal data and enabling the processing of such data for lawful purposes, so as to enable innovation and promote economic growth. In doing so, the government has largely exempted itself from the purview of the law, in letter and spirit.”
High-end chips called graphics processing units (GPUs), which are an exciting prospect in what is arguably the fastest-growing segment of the global tech industry – generative AI – are currently facing a massive supply crunch amid skyrocketing demand, even as the shortages across most other chip categories are beginning to ease out. Here’s why.
Ahead of the deadline for the TCS (tax collected at source) which was supposed to come into effect from July this year, remittances by resident Indians to other countries jumped 35 per cent on a month-on-month basis in June 2023 and 96 per cent when compared to June 2022. We take a look.
⌛ And finally…
An unlikely football hub in an unlikely football state, Bicharpur has produced at least 40 national and state-level players, with PM Modi recently acknowledging its budding footballing talent. The goal post is high and the ground uneven, but Bicharpur’s free-flowing game has kicked off in style.
🤫Delhi Confidential: Not one to let go of an opportunity to take on Nitish Kumar, his former NDA alliance partner, Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh on Monday criticised the Bihar Chief Minister for renaming Atal Bihari Vajpayee Park in Patna to Coconut Park. Read to find out more!
🎧In the latest episode of our 3 Things podcast, we discuss why doctors are protesting a new guideline issued by the National Medical Commission, the Portuguese Civil Code and how it differs from other personal laws in the country, and why the Congress government in Rajasthan has cancelled this year’s student union polls.
Until next time,
Arushi Bhaskar and Ayesha Jain
