Astronaut Rakesh Sharma, the first and only Indian to reach Space, has congratulated Chandrayaan-3, the lunar mission of the country, for successfully landing on the Moon.
In a significant development, a specialized NIA court has issued an order to seize property belonging to Lakhbir Singh Sandhu, also known as “Landa,” a pro-Khalistan terrorist currently residing in Canada. This decision was announced by an official on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met and interacted with Chandrayaan-3 team and other ISRO scientists after Vikram Lander successfully landed on the uncharted South Pole of the Moon.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bengaluru on Saturday to meet and interact with ISRO scientists involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
New Delhi: The Department of Justice on Friday announced that it has provided free legal guidance to 50 lakh people across the nation through its tele-law initiative.
Durgapur/IBNS/UNI: The decomposed body of a third-year computer science and design student was found in his college hostel of Durgapur Engineering College, three days after he went missing, official sources said on Friday.
New Delhi/IBNS: The tussle between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab and the Governor has intensified after the latter warned of recommending the President's rule over Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann not responding to official communication.
New Delhi: The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has declared Madhya Pradesh’s Indore as the best city and Madhya Pradesh as the best state in the Smart Cities Mission under India Smart Cities Awards 2022.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court Wednesday said that dying declarations of a murder victim cannot be the sole basis for conviction of the accused "in cases where suspicion... is raised as regards the correctness (of the statement)".
Chennai/IBNS/UNI: A Special Court Friday extended the judicial remand of Tamil Nadu Minister V. Senthilbalaji by three days till August 28 in connection with the money laundering case.
Srinagar/IBNS: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday claimed that even as everybody in Ladakh knows that a major part of Indian land has been taken away by China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "blatantly lying" about the issue.
Indian PM Narendra Modi and his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis met in Athens on Friday when the two leaders agreed to elevate their relationship to a ‘Strategic Partnership’.
New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin will not personally attend the G20 summit to be held in New Delhi in September, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is currently in Greece, was conferred with The Grand Cross of the Order of Honour on Friday.
Phagwara: A young girl, who is a model by profession, was allegedly raped by four youths near Haveli on the NH in Phagwara Sub Division of Punjab.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met Greece President Katerina Sakellaropoulou when the leaders discussed issues related to strengthening friendship between the two nations.
Greek Ambassador to India Dimitrios Ioannou has said that during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Greece visit, the two countries will upgrade their long friendship.
Bahraich: A 75-year-old man was strangled to death by his two grandsons allegedly over a property dispute in the Matera area of Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, police sources said.
Athens/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Greece to hold bilateral talks with his counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis to further deepen the relationship between the two nations.
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court, in its order on Friday, transferred 21 cases being probed by the CBI in connection with the Manipur violence cases to a set of designated judges in Assam to ensure the safety and protection of victims and witnesses for a fair trial.
Srinagar/UNI: Police booked 54 most wanted and notorious drug smugglers under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act, and Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu Kashmir’s Baramulla district during the current year.
New Delhi/UNI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court on Friday, challenging the ED summons against him in the money laundering case and sought a quashing of it.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday met on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in South Africa where both leaders agreed to work for "expeditious de-escalation" along the entire Line of Actual Control (LAC), that witnessed tensions since the violent face-off in June 2020 in eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley.
Agartala/IBNS/UNI: The Indian Railway on Tuesday made a successful run of a specially designed track car on the newly built railway line for the most ambitious cross-border connectivity between India and Bangladesh from Agartala, which will connect Kolkata via Dhaka.
Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court on Thursday acquitted all six convicts previously convicted in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam's Dhemaji, which claimed 18 lives, including 13 schoolchildren, and left 40 injured, during Independence Day celebrations.
Johannesburg/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said that global south is not just a diplomatic term but shared our history together and opposed colonialism and apartheid.
New Delhi/IBNS: Underlining the runaway success of Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said that the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is going to be a game-changer that will democratize the digital marketplace ecosystem.
Delhi: A luxurious Rolls Royce Phantom limousine caught fire as it collided with a petrol tanker on the New Delhi-Mumbai expressway on Thursday evening, burning both occupants of the tanker alive, media reports said.
New Delhi: After Chandrayaan-3’s successful landing on the lunar surface on Wednesday evening, the netizens in India decided to remind the US-based newspaper New York Times about an old cartoon it published, which, many thought, mocked India’s space ambitions while portraying it as backward and poor.
Johannesburg: Leaders of the BRICS group, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, announced on Thursday the invitation of six additional countries to join their ranks.
