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From: "The India Cable" <theindiaca...@substack.com>
To: gdig...@btinternet.com
Sent: Monday, 26 Jun, 23 At 14:43
India won’t surpass China as superpower, Karnataka minister wants cow
vigilantism dead, misspelt names deny access to MGNREGA, Kuki refugees
not welcome in Shillong, the secret cant of hijras
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News of the day:
-- China has been helping the Pakistan Army build its defence
infrastructure
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, setting up communication towers and laying underground cables
-- Hand to hand fighting and the use of firearms marked a BJP rally in
Madhepura, Bihar.
-- unidentified army personnel forced locals in Pulwama
district, south Kashmir, to recite the Jai Shri Ram
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slogan in a mosque. The incident, which occurred while Union Home
Minister Amit Shah was in J&K to assess the security situation, caused a
great deal of outrage.
-- Thanks to its long tradition of sending professional
soldiers to serve in the armies of other nations, Nepal finds that its
people are fighting on both sides
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of the Ukraine invasion.
-- Young Indian astronomer Aswin Shekhar now has a minor planet
named after him
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. The honour was bestowed on him at the Asteroids Comets Meteors
Conference 2023 last week
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. The citation said that he “is the first professional meteor astronomer
from India in modern times. He has made important contributions to the
field of meteors in meteoroid stream dynamics, particularly in the
effects of relativity and resonances in meteoroid streams.”...
Eddie Ray
