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 seventh stealth frigate under the Indian Navy‘s Project 17 A, Mahendragiri, launched on Friday. Built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), the vessel was developed as part of the push towards the Aatmnirbhar Bharat idea.“Mahendragiri a technologically advanced warship stands as a symbol of India’s determination to embrace its rich naval heritage,…
MUMBAI: In an indication of the weight newly inducted deputy CM Ajit Pawar holds in the cabinet, the government this week dropped BJP minister Radha Krishna Vikhe-Patil from the all-important cabinet committee on infrastructure while adding Ajit Pawar and Dilip Walse-Patil of NCP to it.The committee, headed by CM Eknath Shinde, approves all major infrastructure…
AGRA/BAREILLY: In a corner of the brick-and-mud house with chipping balustrade that Mohit Yadav called his home in Mainpuri’s Nagla Khushali village, there is a small wooden shrine before which he prayed every morning. Towards the end, as Mohit hurtled to his death, unable to deal with his joblessness after UPSRTC terminated his contract as…
MUMBAI: A coordination committee of the opposition INDIA bloc is set to be announced at the alliance’s meeting that will be held in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1, said Shiv Sena (UBT) members. The committee is likely to have prominent members from across the parties which are part of the alliance, and it…
NEW DELHI: An IndiGo flight operating from Madurai to Mumbai, 6E 2012, on Tuesday suffered an engine snag and then landed safely at its destination. The Airbus A321 (VT-IUJ) saw one of its Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines shut down in-flight. Since twin engine aircraft can land safely on one engine, one did so in…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of a plea filed against demolition drive near Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura to remove alleged encroachment on government land and refused to grant any protection to those removed from the land and asked them to raise their grievances before lower court where the suit is pending. Petitioner…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed bilateral ties including space cooperation, the expansion of the Brics group and the upcoming G20 summit in New Delhi with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone, the PMO said in a statement on Monday.A release by the Kremlin added that Putin and PM Modi expressed mutual desire to…
BENGALURU: Karnataka could be staring at a farm labour crisis, with Congress’s poll freebies being blamed for a section of the skilled workforce opting for a life on the dole or raising new demands like an increase in minimum wages, additional benefits and reduced working hours.Coffee plantations, which employ 5 lakh-odd out of the 30…
