Merge branch 'main' into feature/graph-time-series

Author: Susmita331

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ jobs:
           update-conda: true
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
           conda-channels: anaconda, conda-forge
-      - run: conda --version
+      # - run: conda --version  # This fails due to unknown reasons
       - run: which python
 
       - name: Upgrade pip version