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…
NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has revoked the suspension of Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, a political science lecturer at a government school in Srinagar who had recently appeared in the Supreme Court to argue against the abrogation of Article 370.The J&K’s school education department released a notification regarding the revocation on September 2.Shortly after…
NEW DELHI: The blockbuster Asia Cup 2023 encounter between arch-rivals India and Pakistan ended in a frustrating no-result due to persistent rain, resulting in the match being abandoned after just one innings of play on Saturday.With this washout on Saturday, both Pakistan and India earned one point each in the tournament standings.Pakistan, who had earlier…
BHIWANDI: Two people died and five others suffered injuries when a single-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi town of Thane district late on Saturday night.The Bhiwandi fire brigade team started rescue operations by midnight that lasted for nearly three hours.The single-storey building having six flats and located on Durga Road in Dhobi Talao area of Bhiwandi…
NEW DELHI: In a first, the US will soon be sending controversial armour-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine as part of a new military package to aid its war efforts against Russia, according to a Reuters report citing government documents as well as two top US officials. Experts said the munitions could help Ukrainian…
The fear factor around the Pakistan team that a generation grew up watching revolved around their incredible bowling attack. Still, each world-beating Pakistan unit invariably had a couple of terrific batters – be it Javed Miandad, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar, Mohammed Yousuf or Younis Khan. After a period of being in the doldrums in the 2010s,…
French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton has picked up retail space in Jio World Plaza in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) from Reliance Industries through a long-term lease to set up its biggest store in India. The new store in the ritzy mall will be the second Mumbai outlet of the company, which is counted amongst…
Lenders to Bombay Rayon Fashions have rejected all the resolution plans received for various assets of the textile manufacturer. The Mumbai-based company has admitted liabilities of ₹7,234 crore, including ₹6,690 crore financial dues. In March, over a dozen companies including Lalbhai Group-promoted Arvind, as well as entities of the Donear Group, Welspun Group and JM…
NEW DELHI: Expecting a bumper festival season, car and SUV makers reported an all-time high vehicle dispatch to dealerships on volumes estimated at 3.6 lakh units, surpassing the previous record of 3.5 lakh units achieved in September last year.The record number comes in as production at top car companies such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and…
V Noushad, founder, Walkaroo New Delhi: Festive season orders for footwear priced below Rs 300 have seen a jump, while the demand for products above Rs 300 has been impacted as the purchasing capacity of the customers has not increased, compared to the high input costs and increase in GST, shared footwear brand Walkaroo founder,…
