NEW DELHI: Chandrayaan-3‘s Vikram lander has soft-landed on Moon, once again, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said on Monday.The lander exceeded its mission objectives and successfully underwent a hop experiment, according to a post by the space agency on X (formerly Twitter).Describing the softlanding, Isro said, “On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself…
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…
More than a dozen luxury consumer goods brands are entering the country ahead of the festive season, as they look to attract consumers in a market riding on the growing affluence of Indians with higher incomes, spurring greater discretionary spending even in small towns. The trend is being driven by increased exposure to global trends,…
Representative image India has asked the United States to release $26 million belonging to at least two Indian diamond firms frozen due to their alleged trade links with sanctioned Russian diamond major Alrosa, three Indian sources told Reuters. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Treasury unit that oversees sanctions, froze the funds…
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…
