The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said on Wednesday that the 29-hour countdown for the launch of the latest navigation satellite the IRNSS-1H, which will join the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation, started at 2pm.
The satellite, which will be launched from the second launch pad of the …
read moreThe Central Water Commission (CWC) has joined hands with the National Institutes of Technology, in Calicut and Rourkela, for capacity building of the dams and their safety and rehabilitation.
The CWC has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the NIT-Calicut and NIT-Rourkela, as part of the Union Water Resources Ministry …
read moreDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged Lt Governor Anil Baijal to approve the AAP government’s slum policy and said no one should do politics over the issue. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating toilet complexes in Punjabi Bagh at New Delhi, the chief minister sought to know why …
read moreThe heart wrenching images of Zohra, the daughter of the assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police Abdul Rasheed who was martyred on Monday is going viral. The images show Zohra weeping inconsolably at her father's wreath-laying ceremony in Srinagar.
Rasheed who was shot at and injured by terrorists in south Kashmir's …
read moreIn what could be astounding revelations, studies have revealed that among 30 cities of the world, Kolkata tops the list when it comes to online searches for the fatal 'Blue Whale' challenge. The city has seen a 100% jump in searches for the "game" in 12 months, according to Google …
read moreLieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit, who was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in the 2008 Malegaon blast case after spending nine years in prison, on Wednesday donned his Army uniform.
The Army had earlier said that Purohit will join a unit after his release from jail but will …
read moreThe Patna HC has upheld life imprisonment to former RJD MLA Mohammad Shahabuddin in a double murder case. The Bihar strongman, who is presently in Tihar Jail, was convicted in December 2015 and awarded life sentence by a lower court. He had challenged the verdict. Shahabuddin and three others had …
read moreFormer finance minister P Chidambaram censured the Reserve Bank for ‘recommending’ the demonetisation move that resulted in 98.6% of the withdrawn currency coming back into the system.
“Rs 16000 cr out of demonetised notes of Rs 1544,000 cr did not come back to RBI. That is 1%. Shame …
read moreStudents of a school in Chhattarpur run by the Madhya Pradesh government have locked the institute and are staging a sit-in to demand a bigger building and better infrastructure. The Naharpur Higher Secondary School at Gaurihar block in the district is running out of just four rooms over the last …
read moreAbout 89 million notes of Rs 1000 rupee currency have not come back to the system out of a total of 6700 million notes that were in the system as on November 8, according to data released by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its annual report. Only 1.3 …
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After the deluge that struck Mumbai city, Executive Editor of the 📰news channel Mirror Now, Faye D'Souza, called 🌃Mumbai's helpline numbers LIVE on the show with 👥officials of the city government. Surprisingly, when she called the emergency helpline that was specially designated for the floods it indicated that …
read moreAhead of assembly elections, there is trouble for the Congress in Himachal Pradesh, one of the few states it still rules, with 27 of its 36 legislators backing 83-year-old Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in a feud with the party's state chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.
The six-time Chief Minister wrote to …
read moreProminent nuclear disarmament campaigner Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was delivering mail in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Taniguchi, once considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at a hospital in the southwestern Japanese …
read moreSix states are already reeling under floods. Now the government has warned that 12 others might witness floods due to "extreme to very heavy rainfall". Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are already heavily inundated. Hundreds have died and lakhs have been affected. But rains in the …
read moreArchaeologists in London have uncovered the remains of Greenwich Palace, the birthplace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The Palace, which once stood on the site now occupied by the Old Royal Naval College, has been revealing some of its secrets. Two rooms from the Tudor-era palace were found when …
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