👉 @Evening: #AAPExposed, Rezang La Battle And More

1. 📰 Catch Up

• Former bureaucrat CV Ananda Bose appointed as the Governor of West Bengal.

• MEA driver arrested for allegedly leaking confidential details to a Pakistan-based person after being honey-trapped.

• PM Narendra Modi warned against nations that use terrorism as a tool of foreign policy at the third 'No Money for Terror' (NMFT) Conference.

• Jairam Ramesh said all is well in MVA after Uddhav Thackeray disagreed with Rahul Gandhi's Savarkar remarks.

• The reintroduced draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 proposed six types of penalties for violation.

2. 👉 BJP's fresh attacks on AAP

The sixth letter: Citing alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar's sixth letter against Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), BJP Delhi made fresh attacks.

• The letter claimed that the Delhi government received kickbacks of 40 per cent in a deal with a Chinese company to supply government school children with tablets in 2016.

• He named Kejriwal, Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia and jailed AAP minister Satyendra Jain in this letter.

Sting video: In another attack, BJP accused AAP leader Mukesh Goel of demanding Rs 1 crore from a junior engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for giving gifts to party leaders.

• The BJP also released a sting operation video of the AAP leader and urged Kejriwal to sack him from the party without any delay.

• BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra also claimed that Goel was the 'right hand' of Kejriwal who never took any decision in the matters of the MCD without consulting him.

3. 📘 Book 2 of The Partition Trilogy

Hyderabad is the second book in the series of historical fiction by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar in the context of partition.

• It uncovers the forgotten story of Hyderabad's annexation on 17 September 1948.

• It highlights the conflict between the new Indian government and the old princely state where the Nizam was unwilling and ready with jewel-laden trucks for flight.

Lahore was the first book of this trilogy which was released last year.

• The story runs between two cities of Delhi and Lahore and narrates the decisions of political leaders and the British viceroy and the events that followed.

• It highlights the intensity and influence of the political decisions on the common people through its fictional characters.

4. 🚀 India’s first-ever private rocket launch

“Mission Prarambh” marks a great ‘beginning’ for India's private space technology sector with the successful launch of Vikram-S.

• Vikram-S is a single-stage suborbital space launch vehicle and is made by Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace.

• It lifted off at 11.30 am today from the Sounding Rocket Complex at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.

The journey: Vikram-S was developed in a record time of two years, with the groundwork beginning in late 2020 and about 200 engineers' hands on deck.

• In 2021, Skyroot formally signed up with ISRO and secured access to ISRO’s facilities and technical expertise as they went about developing their launch vehicle.

• In June 2022, the startup signed an agreement (MoU) with IN-SPACe, which enabled the launch of its rocket from the ISRO spaceport.

5. 🙏 Remembering Rezang La heroes

On 18 November 1961, the first wave of Chinese attack came at Rezang La, almost a year before the full-fledged 1962 India-China war.

• When the Chinese soldiers were only 50 yards away, Indian soldiers started firing with two .303 rifles and one light machine gun.

• The second and third wave of attack by Chinese soldiers, which came after the shelling, was also repelled by Indian forces.

The Chinese attack continued relentlessly, with the Medium Machine Gun (MMG) inflicting pain on Indian defences in the area.

• After the seventh round of attack, Major Shaitan Singh had less than 50 soldiers and very limited ammunition, but he decided to attack.

• However, he was hit by a burst of MMG fire from the Chinese and could not survive. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra.

The frozen bodies of Indian soldiers were first discovered by a Ladakhi shepherd, who arrived in February 1963, nearly three months after the end of the fighting. 

• The Indian Army recovered the bodies of 96 soldiers of the Charlie Company from Rezang La.

• According to Kuldeep Yadav's account, a total of 1,300 soldiers of the PLA were killed trying to capture Rezang La. 114 Indian soldiers out of a total of 120 were killed.