Category: Events

DRDO demonstrates the anti-satellite weapon on Kartavya Path during the Republic Day Parade. (Image credit: DRDO) Space, often called the final frontier, is fast becoming central to how wars will be fought on the planet. From communication to guiding weapons onto the cap of a bottle to keeping the adversary under persistent observation, a lot...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman V Narayanan addresses a press conference BENGALURU: Isro chairman V Narayanan Monday said genuine concerns of his colleagues would be clarified. “…If one or two people give you a letter, one cannot give a written communication immediately. Please understand, we are 20,000 employees. But we will address the employees,”...

Delhi Police apprehended the owner, his wife, and their son NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have arrested the alleged owner of the building that collapsed in Satya Niketan, along with his wife and son, in connection with the incident that left seven people dead.Police identified the three as Hariram Gupta, his wife Urmila and their son...

Influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj was remanded to 14-day judicial custody. Counsel for self-styled right-wing influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj told the Delhi high court on Monday that the Delhi Police had the “audacity” to travel to Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr and arrest him in connection with the Jantar Mantar protest case.“The SC has already quashed all the FIRs and...

NEET-PG aspirants arrive at an examination centre to appear for the medical entrance exam on August 30 NEW DELHI: The National Board of Examinations (NBE) has ruled out lowering the pass percentage for foreign medical graduates (FMGs), saying that “qualifying standards cannot be diluted”.However, when it comes to NEET-PG, the centralised entrance exam taken by...

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (BCCI Photo) New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner is expecting a tough challenge when India’s ODI specialists Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma return to New Zealand later this year. Kohli and Rohit now play only ODI cricket and will be back in action when India tour New Zealand for five ODIs,...

Chinese naval researchers are exploring high-calibre guns as a potential low-cost defence against drone swarms (AI-image) Chinese naval researchers are studying whether high-calibre naval guns could offer warships a low-cost way to counter drone swarms, potentially reviving the role of a weapon long associated with the battleship era.According to the South China Morning Post, a...

Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi over Satya Niketan PG building collapse. NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and the BJP government over the collapse of a PG building in Delhi’s Satya Niketan, accusing the government of failing to prevent such...

Fatima Sana (Image credit: ACC) Pakistan captain Fatima Sana has been fined 10 per cent of her match fee and given one demerit point for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the Women’s Asia Cup match against India.Pakistan lost the Group A match by seven wickets at the Dubai International Stadium on Saturday.The International...

Akhilesh’s ‘chavanni’ jibe: Is Jayant Chaudhary the game-changer BJP needs in Jatland? Akhilesh Yadav may have intended “chavanni” as a put-down, but in Uttar Pradesh politics, old coins have a habit of changing hands and sometimes gaining value in the process. Three years after Jayant Chaudhary insisted he was no “chavanni” to be flipped, the...