Aditya L1 successfully undergoes the second earth-bound manoeuvre: ISRO
Bengaluru, Sep 5 (PTI) Aditya L1, the first space based Indian mission to study the Sun underwent the second earth-bound manoeuvre successfully, during the early hours on Tuesday, ISRO said. ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) carried out the operation. “The second Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#2) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. ISTRAC/ISRO’s ground stations […]
Teachers play key role in building our future, inspiring dreams: PM Modi
New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the role of teachers in building the future as he greeted them on Teachers’ Day on Tuesday. On the occasion, he also paid tributes to noted educationist and former president S Radhakrishnan on his birth anniversary, which is commemorated as Teachers’ Day. Modi said on […]
Automobile retail sales see 9 pc growth in August: FADA
New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) Automobile retail sales in India rose by 9 per cent in August aided by sales growth in all segments, including passenger vehicles and two wheelers, dealers’ body FADA said on Tuesday. The total retail sales across segments rose to 18,18,647 units last month, up 9 per cent, from 16,74,162 units […]
Non-local boy’s body fished out from Jhelum after two days
Srinagar, Sept 5: A dead body of a non-local was retrieved from river Jhelum near Panzinara area of Shalteng in the outskirts of Srinagar on Tuesday morning after two days, officials said. They said that Mohammad Zubair (20), son of Mohammad Nizam of UP had slipped into river Jhelum near Panzinara on Sunday. He said […]
MeT predicts hot, dry weather to continue in JK
Srinagar, Sept 5: The weather department here on Tuesday forecast mainly “hot and dry” weather and said that the chances of rainfall were “very less” in Jammu and Kashmir for next two weeks. A meteorological department official here said that hot and dry weather was expected during the next 24 hours. He said that no […]
Man arrested for duping woman of Rs 20,000 in Udhampur
Jammu, Sep 4 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 20,000 on the pretext of helping her while she was trying to withdraw money from an ATM in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, police said. The accused was identified as Imtiaz Ahmed of Ramban district, they said. Babli Devi lodged […]
Security forces launch final assault against holed up terrorist in Reasi
Jammu, Sept 5 (PTI) Heavy gunfire rattled a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district where an over 20-hour-long operation to neutralise a holed up terrorist entered second day on Tuesday, officials said. While one terrorist was killed and two security personnel injured in the initial gunfight on Monday, efforts are on to neutralise […]
G20 Summit: AI-generated avatar to welcome world leaders at ‘Mother of Democracy’ exhibition
New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) The Heads of State and other top leaders will be greeted by an artificial intelligence-generated ‘avatar’ at the ‘Mother of Democracy’ exhibition which will be hosted at the Bharat Mandapam to mark the G20 Summit, official sources have said. The exhibition will showcase India’s democratic traditions from the “Vedic period […]
No scope of corruption in JK as all services made online: CS
Srinagar: Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta has said that there is no chance of corruption in the Union Territory now as all services have been made online. He said various schemes and platforms have brought transparency in the system which has ensured that no money can be withdrawn fraudulently from the public exchequer. “We have […]
