Chandrayaan-3 consists of an indigenous lander module, propulsion module and a rover with an objective of developing and demonstrating new technologies required for inter-planetary missions, Isro said.
According to sources, Patil was initially given the IT-BT portfolio along with industries. However, in a subsequent revision, the department went to Kharge along with RDPR. With Patil keen on IT and BT and apparently opposing this move, Siddaramaiah had kept the portfolio to himself.
The recovery included an AK-56 rifle with balance 10 rounds in the magazine (rest of the ammunition had been fired by the terrorist who was injured), two pistols with two magazines, 70 pistol rounds, one IED weighing around 10-12kg, six Chinese grenades and 20 packets of narcotics, the Lt Col added.
The judges cited a SC judgment from September 2022 holding that reproductive autonomy requires that every pregnant woman has the intrinsic right to choose to undergo or not to undergo abortion without any consent from a third party.
The compensation payable to the kin of the victims, numbering at least 80 people from the majority Meitei and tribal Kuki communities, will be contributed equally by the Centre and the state government, officials said.
Dealing with a batch of petitions by accused in the purported 2,000 crore Chhattisgarh liquor scam case, an approach similar to what started in the year 2018 was noticed by a vacation bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and P K Mishra, which on Monday had pointed out the fallacy in filing of writ petitions challenging the validity of provisions of PMLA when these have been upheld by the SC and reiterated by a two-judge bench.
A court in Pakistan had sentenced him to prison time along with two other JuD leaders, Malik Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, in August 2020 for financing terror, ahead of a September 2020 deadline for Pakistan to avoid being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial watchdog, for failing to curb “terror financing”.
Sources said Shah, who is accompanied by home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and Intelligence Bureau director Tapan Deka, has a packed schedule over the next three days, which comprises security reviews with various arms of the security establishment and also deliberations with civil society organisations and representatives of various communities residing in the Valley as well as hill areas of Manipur. He will wind up his visit on June 1.
According to Nibua Naurangiya police station SHO Atul Srivastava, Nand Lal Kushwaha of Bahora Ramnagar village entered the septic tank of his house to clean it and fell unconscious because of toxic gases.
In his written message, which was read out by Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh during the inauguration, Dhankhar said, "It is eminently befitting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first Prime Minister of our country born after independence, has dedicated this magnificent building."
"This new building will see the fulfilment of the resolutions of a developed India. This new building is also an ideal for the coexistence of the new and the old," he said.
The petitioner was friendly with the accused since 2016. In 2018, she married another man and had a child. On October 7, 2022 her drunk husband mercilessly beat her and their minor son. She phoned her former boyfriend around midnight. He asked her to come to his place with her son. He promised to marry her and had physical relations with her.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will hold separate meetings with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot on Monday in Delhi, a senior party leader familiar with the development said. The chief minister's office has also released Gehlot's programme confirming his visit to Delhi, where he will also lay foundation stone of the Rajasthan House.
With industry bigwigs and domain experts from academia to sports in attendance, industrialist Sunil Bharti Mittal lauded the existing ecosystem that allowed India to be the fastest in rolling out 5G network by March, 2024.
A magistrate court in Mazgaon has sentenced a room service attendant to two years of RI for outraging the modesty of a Peruvian woman. She said no such incident occurred with her anywhere else and she was now afraid to travel in the country.
The victim, who had moved back to her parents’ home after her divorce 23 years ago, told the court after her brother married in 2016, his wife and he began to physically assault her and repeatedly threw her out of their home.
The judge pointed out that while Virkar had complained to the cops on April 12 alleging that the informant and others assaulted them, the informant’s FIR was lodged only on April 21.
Accusing PM Modi and “his drumbeaters” of creating a “bogus” narrative about the ‘sengol’ (sceptre) to be installed in the new Parliament hall, Congress on Friday said there was no documented evidence that the sceptre was given by the British to first PM Jawaharlal Nehru as a symbol of transfer of power.
Indians will soon be able to cruise their 4x4s or launch biking blitz through some forbidden land in the strategic Chang Chenmo sector close to patrolling points north of Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh, even as the border standoff with China is into its fourth year now.
Refusing sex to one’s spouse for a prolonged period without justifiable reason amounted to mental cruelty, the Allahabad HC recently observed while dissolving a couple’s marriage. Varanasi resident Ravindra Pratap Yadav had filed an appeal against a family court’s order dismissing his divorce petition on November 28, 2005. He had sought divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty inflicted by his wife by refusing to co-habit and discharge the obligations of marital life.
Amid an escalating fight over who should inaugurate the new Parliament building on Sunday, PM Narendra Modi cited the presence of his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese and the latter’s predecessor Scott Morrison at the event organised by the Indian community in Sydney this week to suggest that partisan differences should not take precedence over matters of national importance.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi moved a Delhi court on Tuesday seeking a no-objection certificate for issuance of a fresh ordinary passport as he had surrendered his diplomatic passport on being disqualified as member of Parliament after being convicted in a defamation case. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Vaibhav Mehta sought the response of Subramanian Swamy, the complainant in the National Herald case, to Rahul’s application, and posted the matter for hearing on Wednesday.
In a bizarre contrast to the iconic scene in the 1995 blockbuster, the Shoranur-bound train jumped a small station and went past - only to reverse nearly 1 km minutes later to the bewilderment of its passengers, rail officials and others.
A Hindu BJP leader in Uttarakhand cancelled his daughter's wedding to a Muslim man after the invite went viral. Right-wing organisations like the VHP and the Bajrang Dal held a series of protests against Yashpal Benam on Friday.
Addressing a G7 session in Japan's Hiroshima on Sunday, PM Modi called into question the effectiveness of the UN and its Security Council. He said these global bodies would be reduced to acting merely like a "talk shop" if they didn't address problems faced by the developing world and were unable to resolve conflicts.
The NDA currently has a strength of 110 in the House and it can add a few more by filling the two vacancies of nominated members. Even then, it will still be eight short of the majority mark in the House with an effective strength of 238.
Pranav Ramesh Salkar is the toast of Palghar district, 128 km from Mumbai, after he dug a well for his mother near his hut in Kelve, a sleepy village, early this month. "I am happy aai will no longer have to do daily trips to the rivulet," he said on Saturday.
Although the original plan was to administer oath to 28 ministers to ensure a full-fledged cabinet, only eight were sworn in, reportedly due to a factional fight between the camps of the new CM and his deputy.
India will do all it can to end the war through dialogue and diplomacy and help ameliorate the pain and suffering of the Ukrainian people, PM Narendra Modi told Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in their first bilateral meeting since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A man from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, whose son was summoned by the NIA in connection with the Elathur train arson case, was found dead in a hotel room in Kochi on Friday. The deceased, Mohd Shafeeq (46), was found hanging from a pipe in the bathroom of the hotel.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
