NEW DELHI: Celebrations have been planned at BJP headquarters after the women’s reservation bill was cleared by both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to arrive at the venue shortly, where he will be felicitated by BJP’s Mahila Morcha members. He is also likely to address BJP … Read more
GUWAHATI: The scramble for a seat to study medicine in a government medical college may be education’s equivalent of the gold rush, but 21 of 100 MBBS berths in Manipur’s Churachandpur Medical College have found no takers this year even after the second round of counselling.Classes for the second MBBS batch are due to start … Read more
CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh Police’s 700-page chargesheet against Haryana minister and ex-national men’s hockey captain Sandeep Singh in a sexual harassment and assault case filed by a junior athletics coach mentions that their relationship went beyond professional interaction, and that the former was “not being honest” about it, reports Ajay Sura.The chargesheet lists 45 witnesses, several of … Read more
Bengaluru: Early on Tuesday, Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (Istrac) scientists in Bengaluru completed the second Earth-bound manoeuvre of Aditya-L1 spacecraft.“Istrac/Isro ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation. The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km,” Isro said.The next maneuvre — third of the five … Read more
BENGALURU: Isro has achieved a new milestone, graduating from the S-band telemetry and command regime used for communication with its space modules to a high throughput X-band frequency for Aditya-L1, India’s first solar space observatory that completed the first of five Earth-bound manoeuvres at 11.40am Sunday.So far, Isro had used X-band only for payload data … Read more
MUMBAI: In an indication of the weight newly inducted deputy CM Ajit Pawar holds in the cabinet, the government this week dropped BJP minister Radha Krishna Vikhe-Patil from the all-important cabinet committee on infrastructure while adding Ajit Pawar and Dilip Walse-Patil of NCP to it.The committee, headed by CM Eknath Shinde, approves all major infrastructure … Read more
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala recorded liquor sales of Rs 665 crore in the first nine days of Onam season till Uthradom (Monday), which is an increase of Rs 41 crore compared to last year’s figure of Rs 624 crore for the same period.The total sale of liquor through Bevco (Kerala State Beverages Corporation) outlets on the Uthradom … Read more
MUMBAI: A coordination committee of the opposition INDIA bloc is set to be announced at the alliance’s meeting that will be held in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1, said Shiv Sena (UBT) members. The committee is likely to have prominent members from across the parties which are part of the alliance, and it … Read more
MEERUT: A retired armyman, in his mid-50s, allegedly got his 27-year-old son killed by a contract killer to take revenge on his estranged wife. The incident occurred at Chhur village in the Sardhana area of UP’s Meerut, said police.According to officials, the accused, Sanjeev Kumar, allegedly conspired with a local man, identified as Amit (30), … Read more
BENGALURU: Pragyan had crawled eight metres on the Moon as of Friday at the rate of 1cm per second after the Chandrayaan-3 rover began leaving its tracks in lunar surface dust on Thursday. All systems were go on Friday.The first images of the rover rolling out of the lander and over the ramp, released Friday, … Read more