BENGALURU: When the Sun sets on Wednesday, look at the Moon: India may be up there. Four years after Chandrayaan-2 crash-landed on the lunar surface, India is at the cusp of making history by landing a probe in the polar region of the Moon. If all goes well, Vikram, the Chandrayaan-3 lander, will touchdown a … Read more
NEW DELHI: A scrutiny of 1572 minority institutions from 21 states, registered on the national scholarship portal, has revealed that 830 of them had fake beneficiaries, prompting the minority affairs ministry to hand over the probe to CBI.Lack of protests from “beneficiaries” after the Centre’s decision to discontinue scholarship for minorities for Classes 1-8 last … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Amit Malviya has done for the Congress in Rajasthan what the grand old party’s top leadership failed to do in the last two years despite several desperate attempts.The strained relations between Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot is well known. They have embarrassed the grand old … Read more
NEW DELHI: There was yet again no concrete breakthrough in resolving the festering troop face-offs at Depsang Plains and Demchok in eastern Ladakh despite the latest round of top-level military talks being held with China after a gap of almost four months.China did not agree to restore patrolling rights of Indian soldiers at the strategically-located … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, with a voice vote following a walkout by the opposition members over the Manipur issue. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on August 7.The Bill, which comes after six years of the Supreme Court declaring “Right to Privacy” as … Read more
SYDNEY: Two Indian navy ships docked in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, underscoring the strategic importance of the country to global superpowers the United States and China and their allies.The INS Kolkata guided missile destroyer and INS Sahyadri frigate will stay in PNG’s capital Port Moresby for two days, an Indian embassy official said. The … Read more
NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs (MHA) will refer Manipur viral video case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The Centre will also file an affidavit in the Supreme Court requesting the trial of viral video case to take place outside Manipur.The mobile phone from which the viral video was shot has been recovered … Read more
The Wadia Group’s gamble to suspend Go First operations and go in for voluntary insolvency has paid off. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has accepted GoFirst’s resumption plan after ensuring that its audit observations have been complied with. The airline can now do so with 15 aircraft operating 114 daily flights if it … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted regular bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad over charges of forging documents and tutoring witnesses in cases relating to the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.The apex court said that since chargesheet has been filed and her custodial interrogation completed, she should be granted bail.The SC bench said … Read more
MUMBAI: In a surprise move, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar along with Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal and some other ministers from his Nationalist Congress Party camp met NCP president Sharad Pawar at Mumbai’s YB Chavan Centre on Sunday.This was the first meeting between Sharad and the group-led by Ajit Pawar after he rebelled against … Read more