NEW DELHI: Isro will usher in the new year with the first launch of 2026 — PSLV C62 mission — on Monday (January 12) at 10.17 am from the first launchpad at the Sriharikota spaceport. The rocket will launch an advanced earth observation satellite EOS-N1 (codenamed ‘Anvesha’), another ‘eye in the sky’ that will boost…
NEW DELHI/ RAJKOT: Ahead of the launch of year-long “Somnath Swabhiman Parv” by PM Narendra Modi on Jan 11, BJP on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on Congress for its govt’s opposition to the reconstruction of the revered temple and flagged letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to accuse him of “hating” the deity.BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear the bail plea of the father of the 17-year-old involved in the Porsche car crash in Pune, who is facing prosecution for manipulating the blood sample test of his son by allegedly replacing it with his own blood sample. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna…
NEW DELHI: Around 100 international delegates representing 42 election management bodies (EMBs) from across the world will gather here to discuss ‘democracy for an inclusive, resilient and sustainable world’ at the India International Conference on Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) to be hosted by Election Commission from Jan 21 to 23.The three-day conference, being organised…
New Delhi: The Union home ministry Wednesday formally notified the timeline for the first phase of Census 2027 — involving housing and houselisting operations — declaring that it shall be conducted over a 30-day period, to be specified by each state or Union territory, between April 1 and Sept 30 this year. Invoking its powers…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court Wednesday ordered Congress and AAP to remove, within 24 hours, social media posts linking BJP’s Dushyant Kumar Gautam to the 2022 murder of a woman at a resort in Uttarakhand.In an interim order passed on a defamation suit filed by Gautam, Justice Mini Pushkarna also restrained the two parties from…
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of talks between India and Bangladesh to renew Ganga Water Sharing Treaty, a team of senior officials from Union Jal Shakti ministry visited Farakka Barrage Project in West Bengal and reviewed its technical and administrative aspects .Farakka Barrage, located in Murshidabad and Malda districts, is key to the 30-year-old water…
SRINAGAR: The Omar Abdullah govt on Tuesday rejected the demand of statehood for Jammu region, calling it “unviable”, and said it was instead time for Ladakh to be reunited with Jammu and Kashmir.“J&K was a full-fledged state earlier. It was then bifurcated into Ladakh and J&K. Those who split J&K state now want to divide…
SRINAGAR: BJP and Hindu groups on Wednesday celebrated the National Medical Commission’s decision to withdraw permission to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) in Reasi, Jammu, to run an MBBS course from 2025-26 academic session, while J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah reacted sharply, accusing them of playing with the future of students.As…
NEW DELHI: The govt has approved a Rs 1,800 crore proposal for setting up a new cylindrical mould watermark banknote (CWBN) line with an annual capacity to produce 6,000 tonnes of high-security, durable paper, which is used for printing currency notes, non-judicial stamp papers and passports.The move is aimed at meeting the increasing demand for…
