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BJP won nine out of ten Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh yesterday after SP-BSP bloc suffered cross-voting setback. BJP boosted its overall Rajya Sabha tally from 58 to 69 (winning 28 of the 59 seats for which results were declared). Congress won 10 seats, a loss of four seats from its current tally of 54. However, BJP lost a seat to Congress in Karnataka where elections are due next month. TRS was the biggest winner among the regional parties, winning all the three seats from Telangana. Read more |
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Soldiers deployed on the borders with China and Pakistan will get new rifles & Light Machine Guns(LMGs) under the fast-track procedure (FTP). Under the Defence Procurement Procedure’s strict timelines for the FTP, which caters for urgent operational requirements, the RFP has to be issued within 10 days of a case being cleared by the Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) to ensure the actual contract after the technical and commercial evaluation is inked within a year. The delivery of the weapons is supposed to thereafter take place in three to 12 months. |
US President Trump has picked the man who opposed India’s elevation to UNSC as his National Security Adviser (NSA). Bolton hardline views and advocacy of military power, and has ferociously opposed Iran, wants punitive strikes against North Korea, and is leery even about India. In the time he was the US ambassador to UN during the Bush years, he worked actively with his Chinese counterpart to thwart New Delhi’s bid for a permanent membership of the UN Security Council, clashing frequently with India’s then UN ambassador Nirupam Sen over a range of issues. |
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Elon Musk has deleted Facebook pages of Tesla, SpaceX after being challenged on Twitter. Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk‘s rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Inc disappeared on Friday, minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promised on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users. Musk had begun the exchange by responding to a tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on the #deletefacebook tag. |
PV Sindhu will be the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent at the opening ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. This would be the first time in the last three editions of the Commonwealth Games that a badminton player would don the flag-bearer’s hat. At the 2006 Melbourne CWG, Athens Olympics silver medallist shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who is presently the Union Sports Minister, was the Indian contingent’s flag-bearer. At the 2010 Delhi CWG, it was Beijing Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra who carried forward the legacy at the march past. |
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