Sriharikota, 2/9: After the resounding success of Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will on Saturday launch its much-awaited mission to study the Sun, Aditya L-1, from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota near here Saturday. PSLV-C57 will launch the Aditya L-1 spacecraft with seven payloads at 11.50…
Colombo, 11/9: Sri Lanka has formally announced an end to the fuel rationing scheme imposed one year ago during the height of the unprecedented economic crisis, a senior minister said on Friday, hinting at an improvement in the island nation’s economy. Energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the QR-based fuel rationing system, imposed in August 2022,…
Mumbai, 1/9: Actor and director R Madhavan was on Friday nominated as the President of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and the Chairman of the governing council. Madhavan’s nomination was announced by Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur.
Bhubaneswar, 1/9: As per the direction of Chief Minister Sri Naveen Patnaik, Secretary to CM (5T) Sri. V.K. Pandian visited Jajpur District to review the progress of various developmental works in the district and redressal of public grievances. He visited Maa Biraja Temple in Jajpur where he interacted with Sebayats, Trustee Members and general…
Thiruvananthapuram, 1/9: A young doctor in Kerala has accused a senior doctor at the General Hospital here of having made unwarranted sexual advancements towards her by forcefully hugging and kissing her in his private consultation room four years ago. The Facebook post in which the doctor made the allegations has gone viral, prompting State Health…
New Delhi, 1/9: I.N.D.I.A parties on Friday decided to contest Lok Sabha polls together “as far as possible” and initiate seat sharing talks in states at the earliest. The parties also decided to set up a 13 member Coordination committee with senior leaders like K C Venugopal, Sharad Pawar, M K Stalin, Tejashwi Yadav, Hemant…
Chennai, 1/9: Teenaged Grandmaster D Gukesh has replaced the legendary Viswanathan Anand as India’s top chess player after more than three decades. Anand has been India’s No.1 since July 1986. The 17-year old Chennai GM, who recently lost in the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup in Baku to Magnus Carlsen, moved ahead of Anand…
New Delhi, 31/8: Two men were arrested in connection with the killing of a senior manager of e-commerce giant Amazon and injuring his uncle in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area, police said on Thursday. Bilal Gani (18), a resident of Subhash Mohalla in Bhajanpura, was apprehended near Signature Bridge around 2 am on Thursday by the…
New Delhi, ,31/8: The government on Thursday appointed Jaya Verma Sinha as the first woman CEO and Chairperson of the Railway Board, the apex decision-making body for the national transporter. She was at the centre stage of the railways’ media interactions recently when, as the Member (Operations and Business Development), she explained the complex signalling…
Goa, 31/8: The Goa Crime Branch on Thursday arrested state Aam Aadmi Party president Amit Palekar for allegedly misrepresenting facts in connection with an accident wherein a Mercedes car mowed down three people near Panaji earlier this month, an official said. Palekar has been accused of misrepresenting facts by introducing a wrong person as the…
