New Delhi, 30/9: ISRO said on Saturday the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh km from Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence. It is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. …
Myanmar, 30/9: Terrorists based out of Myanmar and Bangladesh hatched a “transnational conspiracy” with militant leaders in the Northeast to stoke the current ethnic strife in Manipur and wage a war against India, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said. The anti-terror agency, which has arrested two individuals allegedly involved in the conspiracy in the past…
New Delhi, 30/9: The Reserve Bank on Saturday extended the special drive to withdraw Rs 2,000 bank notes from the system by another week, till October 7. The public has returned Rs 3.42 lakh crore of the Rs 2,000 notes since May 19, the RBI said in a statement posted on the last day of…
Chattisgarh, 30/9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Congress government in Chhattisgarh, alleging that there was corruption in its every scheme. Addressing a concluding function of the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra outreach campaign here ahead of assembly elections, he also claimed that the Congress can not tolerate the rise of…
Beijing, 30/9: Top seeds India upstaged traditional rivals Pakistan in a sensational duel to claim the gold medal in the men’s team squash event at the Asian Games here on Saturday. The hero of the day was Chennai’s Abhay Singh, who kept his composure and raised his game to get the better of Noor Zaman…
New Delhi, 30/9: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday described electoral bonds as ‘legalised bribery’ and claimed that, as their fresh tranche opens on October 4, it will be a ‘golden harvest’ for the BJP. The government on Friday approved the issuance of the 28th tranche of electoral bonds that will open for sale…
Manipur, 30/9: Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey visited the family members of two youths who were killed after being allegedly kidnapped, leading to violent protests in the northeastern states. The governor met the family members of the two students at their respective residences in Imphal West district on Friday, a statement issued by the Raj Bhavan…
Washington DC, 30/9: Robert F Kennedy Jr on Friday hinted strongly that he would run for president on a third-party ticket instead of continuing his long-shot Democratic primary challenge to President Joe Biden, a move that would set off alarms among Democrats worried about its potential to create chaos in November 2024. Kennedy, in a…
Etawah, 29/9:A teenage girl and a boy committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train here on Friday, police said. Bodies of Akash Kumar (16) and Ayushi (12) were recovered near railway tracks in the Civil Lines police station area in the morning. According to the police, the duo, residents of Nagla Jage…
Islamabad, 29/9: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and several top leaders of his party were directly involved in orchestrating the unprecedented anti-government violence on May 9, a joint investigation team has informed an anti-terrorism court here. A Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was constituted to probe the violence in Punjab province following the arrest…
