Dr. R K Chadha The Central Government employees pay their homage to the former Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, who passed away on 26 December 2024 at the ripe age of 92 in New Delhi. We all owe him for bringing monumental changes in the Sixth Pay Commission that transformed the lives of…
In Episode #1 of the Adani saga played out in January 2023, a US-based firm, Hindenburg published a report claiming that the Indian conglomerate of Adani Group, led by Gautam Adani, the 3rd richest man in the world has been involved in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over decades. This report had…
Priyanka Vadra is all set to enter the Parliament after winning the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala vacated by his brother Rahul Gandhi by surpassing his victory record margin of over 3.6 lakhs. While her victory adds to the growth of the family of trio, mother, son and daughter it signals the annihilation of…
Donald Trump is all set to become the 47th President of the United States of America (POTUS) after the US Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat in a chaotic and most polarising presidential election fought bitterly in November 2024. Owing to his good chemistry with him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first few…
I woke up to the sad news of yet again a stampede that occurred in the early morning today, the 27th October 2024, injuring nine people at the Bandra Terminus Railway station in Mumbai when passengers tried to board the train heading toward Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Stampedes are manmade disasters that take a heavy toll…
The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections concluded after the third voting phase on 1 October 2024. Guessing the outcome of results is very tricky for this post-Article 370 abrogation elections because of the clearly defined demography in the region on religious lines. While the Kashmir valley is 98% Muslim majority controlling 50% of the Assembly…
Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon in the last week of September 2024 reminds me of transistor bombs that went off in buses in Delhi and adjoining areas of UP and Haryana in May 1985 killing 49 people and injuring 127 in Delhi alone. However, there are two major differences, i) exploding devices in Lebanon…
Dr R K Chadha A fake letter falsely linked to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) accusing the recipients of heinous crimes that include child pornography and similar serious accusations and asking to respond within 24 hours, is a dangerous step up by the scamsters to broaden their sphere by browbeating innocent people to…
Dr R K Chadha An Automatic Weather Station (AWS) of the India Meteorological Department at Mungeshpur, New Delhi, recorded the highest temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius on 29 May 2024. This was the highest-ever temperature recorded in India, breaking all previous records. Such record-breaking temperatures and severe heatwave conditions in north India are not isolated…
(Dr RK Chadha) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA has announced that its operations on the International Space Station (ISS) will end in 2030 after completing 3 decades in space science. The 28 March 2023 issue of Smithsonian Magazine carried an article entitled, The ISS will fall from Sky after the end of the…
