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Simultaneous polls plan gets Union Cabinet nod - Govt. to form implementation group to take forward recommendations of Kovind panel

With eye on 2025 Bihar election, Nitish sets July deadline for land survey - Nearly 10,000 officials appointed to digitise land records of 45,000 villages; ruling party will draw ‘maximum benefit’ from it: JD(U) leader; people facing trouble in verifying documents, says Oppn.

Mpox confirmed in Kerala’s Malappuram - A person who arrived from Dubai tested positive for the infection; condition of the patient said to be stable; Kerala Health Department has arranged treatment and isolation facility in 14 districts of the State; health workers have been asked to exercise caution while dealing with suspected cases

‘We are sharing state-of-the-art expertise with ISRO for Gaganyaan’ - Philippe Baptiste, chief of Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the French space agency, says India-France collaboration is not only a great success of the past but an ongoing one, and that France is impressed by what India is doing, especially in lunar exploration; on Gaganyaan mission, he says France is sharing knowledge, especially on space medicine

Simultaneous polls hurt federalism: Opposition - Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge dismisses proposal as ‘diversionary’ tactic; CPI leader D. Raja says framers of the Constitution had anticipated multiple and frequent elections in a federal polity

In volatile pockets of Kashmir, vote is a new weapon of change - Voters who turned 18 this year and those who had boycotted elections for the past 34 years in response to the separatist Hurriyat’s call headed to the booth for their first vote; Pulwama, Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian see impressive turnout

Chandrayaan-4, Venus orbiter get approval from Union Cabinet - Gaganyaan expansion project also gets nod; next lunar project plans to bring moon rocks to earth; space docking experiment later this year

Superfast lasers open shortcut to hard drives of the future - Scientists are interested in spin currents because the electrons’ up and down spin states can represent 0s and 1s, to store and retrieve data in a computer’s hard drive. Spintronic drives of the future are expected to be able to store more data than existing drives, and consume less energy