New Delhi: A leak valve and low pressure build-up in the liquid hydrogen tank that fed the cryogenic engine of India’s heavy-lift rocket GSLV has been identified as the reason for the failure to put Geo Imaging Satellite (GISAT-1) into orbit in August last year, a report has revealed. The Failure Analysis Committee (FAC) set […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday announced a three-phased campaign, “Mehngai-mukt Bharat Abhiyaan”, against price rise under which it will organise rallies and marches across the country from March 31 to April 7. Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told a press conference here that in the first phase of the campaign, Congress […]
New Delhi: India on Saturday repatriated three Pakistani prisoners through the Attari-Wagah border transit point after they completed their jail terms. The prisoners are Sameera Abdul Rehman, Murtaza Asghar Ali and Ahmed Raja, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). “Three Pakistani prisoners, who had completed their sentences, were repatriated to Pakistan via the […]
NEW DELHI: After a coronavirus pandemic-induced hiatus of over two years, regular international flights are set to resume from Sunday with airports and airlines getting ready for normal overseas operations. Battered by the pandemic, the airline industry is slowly coming back to normalcy and the resumption of normal overseas flights is expected to provide a […]
NAVI MUMBAI: Quitting captaincy may unburden Virat Kohli the batter but the focus will still remain on the maestro in Royal Challengers Bangalore’s IPL-15 opener against Punjab Kings here on Sunday. For, it will be the first time Kohli will not be leading RCB in nearly a decade, turning out only as a player, instead. […]
Mumbai: With the change in leadership at Royal Challengers Bangalore, the IPL might get to see the Virat Kohli from the 2016 season when he amassed over 900 runs, reckons former India captain Sunil Gavaskar. The spotlight , though, will remain on Kohli when he takes to the field only as a player in RCB’s […]
MUMBAI: Two-time World Cup-winning Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has no doubt that flamboyant wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will be a successful India captain if he is handed the responsibility in future. Pant took over the captaincy at IPL franchise Delhi Capitals last season in the absence of an injured Shreyas Iyer, with the Ponting-led team management […]
MUMBAI: The legendary Kapil Dev feels cricket reached “new heights” in India due to an upgrade in infrastructure and providing better facilities will help sports like hockey win more medals at the Olympics. “We as a country need to give the infrastructure first. If we have it, the kids will be free to chose any […]
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was unanimously elected as the leader of the SP legislature party at a meeting of the newly elected party MLAs here on Saturday. The SP president, who won from Karhal in Mainpuri, is now set to become the leader of opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. He had recently […]
New Delhi: With the conclusion of the Assembly polls in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, the Centre plans to resume publishing the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on COVID-19 vaccination certificates in these states. Modi’s photo was removed from the vaccination certificates in the five states — Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur […]