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Mumbai police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar today said that Mumbai traffic police had received threat messages on its WhatsApp group. The terror-related messages were received late yesterday.
Addressing a press conference, Mr. Phansalkar said that these messages threatened a repeat of 26/11 like the Mumbai attacks.
Eknath Shinde, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, assigned portfolios to his newly appointed ministers in the State Cabinet.
General Administration, Urban Development, Social Justice and Special Assistance, Relief and Rehabilitation, Irrigation, Environment and Climate Change, Minority Affairs, and Waqf have been retained by the Chief Minister.
Following the liberation of French towns by Allied Forces following D-Day, the French Resistance / Maquis frequently picked up and dealt with suspected or alleged collaborators.
In order to punish them for “collaboration horizontale,” French women who were accused of having romantic or sexual ties with German personnel frequently had their heads shaved.
Syria accused the United States on Wednesday of smuggling oil out of the country through an illegal border crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan.
According to the Syrian Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources, US occupying forces stole more than 80% of the country’s oil.
Life: In New York, Gertrude Elion was born. Elion made the decision to dedicate her life to the fight against cancer when she was a youngster and witnessed the passing of her maternal grandfather.
She majored in chemistry at Hunter College and New York University but struggled to get employment as a scientist due to her gender.
Relax, James Webb! Actually, we don’t mind because we enjoy these breathtaking glimpses into the cosmos, which are becoming richer, extra detailed, and more captivating.
The James Webb Space Telescope has now captured yet another aspect of the beauty of space. At this moment, the telescope captured an image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is approximately 500 million light-years away!
The Central Board of Secondary Education explained, stating that “The book is from the 2014 Edition,” in response to the controversy surrounding a widely circulated CBSE Class 10 French textbook front page depicting the incorrect map of India.
Rama Sharma, a CBSE PRO, said: “The Class 10 French Textbook’s cover page, which accidentally depicts the incorrect map, is from a previously phased-out edition from 2014. On the CBSE website, you can access the updated version.”
Pingali Venkayya, a freedom fighter, designed India’s national tricolor. He was a farmer, geologist, lecturer at Andhra National College in Machilipatnam, and a native Japanese speaker. He spoke Japanese so well that he became known as ‘Japan Venkayya.’
To commemorate Venkayya’s birth anniversary on August 2, the Central Government decided to issue a special memorable postage stamp. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the stamp during a ceremony in New Delhi.
Diamond is commonly known as one of the hardest materials on Earth – and much of this is down to the way the carbon atoms, which make up the material, are arranged in a lattice structure.
This crystal structure of diamond was the first crystal to be determined by X-ray diffraction – a method that uses X-rays to find out how atoms are arranged in a crystal.
The Battle of the Crater was a Civil War battle that took place as part of the siege of Petersburg. On July 30, 1864.
It was fought between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac, led by Major General George G. Meade (under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant).
