NIT Srinagar bags 3rd position in Prajatantra 2022-23

Srinagar: The Prajatantra team of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar has bagged 3rd position as India’s Best Youth Team in Prajatantra’s All India level Grand Finale that was held in New Delhi this week. Similarly, on the basis of individual performance, two students of NIT Srinagar includes Ms Mehvish Wani student of Technology, Innovation […]

IUST holds plantation drive, seminar on climate change

Awantipora: Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) in collaboration with the Department of Social Forestry, Government of J&K today held Plantation Drive under the theme Donate a Plant & Own a Tree (DPOT) and also conducted One day Seminar on the theme “Role of Forests in Mitigating Climate Change”. Mr. Roshan Jaggi, IFS PCCF/ […]

Chinese President Xi to visit Russia for talks with Putin

Chinese President Xi to visit Russia for talks with Putin

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Russia on Monday to hold crucial talks with his counterpart Vladimir Putin, the foreign ministry here announced on Friday, amid reports that Beijing plans to initiate peace talks to end the conflict in Ukraine. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying in a brief announcement said, “at the invitation […]

North Korea confirms fired ICBM, says it was Hwasong-17

North Korea confirms fired ICBM, says it was Hwasong-17

Seoul: North Korea has confirmed it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and that it was the Hwasong-17, known as the country’s “monster missile”. The launch of the banned missile was detected by neighbours South Korea and Japan on Thursday, hours before South Korean President Yook Suk-yeol was due to fly to Tokyo for a summit […]

Australia to buy 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from US

Canberra: Australia plans to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the US State Department approved the sale in a deal valued at nearly $900m. The deal, which the Pentagon said involves up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles and technical support, comes just days after Australia announced it would buy […]

After weeklong stalemate, Parliament adjourned till Monday

New Delhi: Parliament was adjourned on Friday till Monday within minutes of sitting as ruling BJP members continued to clash with the Opposition over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s speeches and demanded his apology for comments on Indian democracy and Parliament. Both the Houses of Parliament witnessed familiar scenes, BJP members shouting for apology by Gandhi […]

Nadda compares Rahul with billionaire George Soros

Nadda compares Rahul with billionaire George Soros

New Delhi: Terming Rahul Gandhi’s recent remarks on democracy in the country as an attack on India’s sovereignty, BJP President Nadda on Friday wondered what the true intention of the senior leader was when he asked the US and the UK to ”interfere” in the domestic affairs of this country. Demanding an apology from Rahul […]

Cong accuses BJP of being cruel towards tribals

Bhopal: The opposition Congress in MP on Friday alleged that the BJP government was acting insensitively towards tribals, as the police had registered an FIR against more than a dozen tribals including the father of a 22-year-old tribal girl who had died suspiciously at Indore some days ago, which led to unrest by tribals and […]

TMC, SP decide to work unitedly to fight BJP, keep distance from Cong

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party will work unitedly to fight against the BJP nationally, senior SP leader Kiranmoy Nanda said after a meeting between supremos of the two parties, Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav, on Friday. Yadav, Nanda who is an SP national vice-president, and other leaders called on Banerjee at her […]

Chandrayaan-3 passes ISRO’s vibration tests

New Delhi: Indian space agency said it had successfully completed the tests to check Chandrayaan-3 — moon spacecraft — to withstand the harsh vibration and acoustic environment that the spacecraft would face during its launch. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the tests were conducted during the first week of March 2023 at […]