Chennai: The world is looking at India as an inspirational place with what the country has achieved in the space sector in the last 60 years, chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation S Somanath said on Sunday. Somanath said he was witnessing a transformation in the sector by bringing in startups, incubating them in space […]
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday said he has held constitutional posts for 40 years and the new generation should get a chance now, virtually admitting an imminent change of guard in the state. Gehlot, who has announced contesting for the post of Congress president, made the remarks during to a visit to […]
New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar has been appointed the director general of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation, as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Sunday. Kumar, a 1992-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, is currently an additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information […]
Dehradun: The body of Ankita Bhandari who worked in an Uttarakhand resort was recovered from a canal on Saturday, police said as the ruling BJP swung into action to expel its leader whose son, the main accused, owned the property and the administration began demolishing the structure. Outrage over the killing of the 19-year-old, who […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has restrained the Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) from taking any coercive action against the vice principal of a government school here who was fined Rs 4.2 lakh and directed to plant 50 trees for allegedly cutting or pruning eight dry trees inside the school campus. The petitioner, who […]
New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Conference of Environment Ministers in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat via video conferencing today. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister welcomed one and all to Ekta Nagar and the National Conference of Environment Ministers. The Prime Minister highlighted that the conference is being held when India is […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress claimed on Thursday that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s meeting with the head of the All India Imam Organisation was due to the impact of the party’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra” and requested Bhagwat to walk with Rahul Gandhi in uniting the country “with a tricolour in hand”. Taking forward his outreach to […]
New Delhi: K Raja Prasad Reddy from Telugu daily Sakshi was Friday elected as the president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), the media body said. Rakesh Sharma from Aaj Samaj, a Hindi language newspaper, was elected as the INS deputy president and Mathrubhumi Arogya Masika’s M V Shreyams Kumar the society’s vice president at […]
New Delhi: (RTIS), developed in collaboration with ISRO, is being installed on the locomotives for automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival & departure or run-through. They get automatically plotted on the control chart of those trains in the Control Office Application (COA) system. RTIS gives mid-section updates with […]
Mumbai: The Mumbai police’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) on Friday submitted a voluminous charge-sheet against eight persons in a special court in a case related to seizure of mephedrone worth around Rs 2,500 crore, an official said. The 4,818-page document was filed in the special court set up under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act […]