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Sachin Pilot is likely to be made in-charge of a big state, sources said.     Only three members of the total 39 are under 50 years of age.  New Delhi:  On the birth anniversary of former prime minister and Congress legend Rajiv Gandhi, the grand old party today revealed the members of its highest governing council. Ahead of the state's next assembly elections, the sulky leader of Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, has been given a position in the Congress Working Committee. The party has been attempting to appease the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan who just publicly embarrassed the state government of his own party, which is led by his rival Asok Gehlot. The CWC now includes Sachin Pilot, Shishi Tharoor (who stood against Mallikarjun Kharge in the Congress President election last year), Deepa Das Munshi, and Syed Nasser Hussain. Ms. DasMunshi is a former West Bengal state assemblywoman and the widow of the late Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, a seasoned Congress leader an...

The German embassy in India posted videos and images of Mr Wissing buying groceries and using UPI to make payments.      Mr Wissing was in Bengaluru to attend the G20 Digital Ministers Meeting on August 19.   Volker Wissing, Germany's Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, had the opportunity to personally test the ease of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) payments and was "fascinated" by the encounter. On Sunday, the German Embassy in India praised and referred to India's digital infrastructure as one of the nation's success stories on X, formerly known as Twitter. Mr. Wissing was seen using UPI to pay for his purchases in videos and pictures that were published by the German embassy in India. One of India's success stories, according to the post's description, is its digital infrastructure. Everyone may conduct transactions quickly thanks to UPI. It's used by millions of Indians. Wissing, the federal minister for digital and transportation, was a...

Bank of Baroda's tender notice said actor Sunny Deol has the option of clearing the dues to prevent the auction to be carried out under the provisions of the Sarfaesi Act, 2002   Bank of Baroda has listed for auction actor Sunny Deol's Juhu villa over  ₹  56 crore dues Mumbai:  Property owned by actor and current BJP member Sunny Deol has been put up for auction by state-owned Bank of Baroda in an effort to raise 56 crore through an online auction that will take place on August 25. The Gurdaspur MP has been in default on a $55.99 million loan from the bank, plus interest and penalties, since December 2012, the second largest state-owned lender said in a public tender on Sunday. The Gurdaspur MP's most recent film, Gaddar 2, has already made over $300 million worldwide since its release last week. The Sunny Villa, a property that the bank has attached and is located on Gandhigram Road in the exclusive Juhu neighborhood of the megacity, has a reserve price of 51.43 cro...

Russia's state space corporation, Roskosmos, said an "abnormal situation" occurred as mission control tried to move the craft into a pre-landing orbit.   The lander was boosted out of Earth's orbit toward the moon a little over an hour later. Moscow:  After spinning out of control and colliding with the moon, Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft was unable to launch its first moon mission in nearly 50 years. The mission's specifics and what a failure would most likely entail are described below. LUNA-25 Since the Soviet Union's Luna-24 returned with lunar samples in 1976, this was Russia's first moon mission. On August 11, at 2:11 a.m. Moscow time, a Soyuz 2.1 rocket carrying the Luna-25 spacecraft launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 3,450 miles (5,550 km) east of Moscow. A little more than an hour later, the lander was propelled toward the moon from Earth's orbit. It began orbiting the moon on August 16 and was scheduled to make a gentle landing attemp...

Police said a few years back Abbas's son had eloped with a girl from the neighbouring household.     The couple, Abbas and his wife Kamrul Nisha, died on the spot in the attack on Friday Sitapur:  In Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, neighbors beat a man and his wife to death with iron rods and sticks. Police claim the murder was allegedly caused by a liaison between the victim's son and the daughter of one of the accused, and three persons have been detained in connection with the case. In the incident on Friday, the couple—Abbas and his wife Kamrul Nisha—died instantly, and all the suspects ran away. Chakresh Mishra, the superintendent of police in Sitapur, claimed that a girl from a neighboring family had eloped with Abbas's son a few years prior. In this context, a complaint was filed, and Abbas's son was imprisoned. Police said that after Abbas' son was let out of jail a few days prior, some family members plotted to attack the couple. The villagers claim that Ruby, the ...