Spread the love ISRO’s GSLV-F17/EOS-05 mission successfully accomplished SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully launched EOS-05, India’s first imaging satellite designed to operate from a geosynchronous orbit, aboard GSLV-F17 in the early hours of Friday.The 51.7-metre-tall, 420.5-tonne, three-stage rocket lifted off from the second launch pad at Sriharikota at 2.55am and placed the around 2,367kg Earth observation satellite...
ISRO’s GSLV-F17 carrying EOS-05 lifts off from Sriharikota
Spread the love A GSLV rocket, carrying ISRO’s Earth observation satellite EOS-05, lifted off from the spaceport in a pre-dawn mission on Friday (September 4, 2026). The 51.7 metre tall GSLV-F17 blasted off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, about 135 km from Chennai, at a prefixed time of 2.55 am, lighting up the dark skies...
Deadly flood damages Grand Canyon water pipeline serving 6m annual visitors
Spread the love Grand CanyonRepresentative image from Canva For decades, a single 12.5-mile pipeline has carried water across the arid landscape of northern Arizona to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, sustaining lodges, campgrounds, restaurants and restrooms for one of the world’s most visited national parks. In late August 2026, a sudden, deadly flash flood tore through the pipeline’s...
Don’t share any sensitive tech with Pak, Rajnath asks Belgian minister
Spread the love Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Belgian defence minister, trade minister Theo Francken NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh Thursday made it clear to visiting Belgian defence minister and trade minister Theo Francken that for Indo-Belgian defence relations to flourish, his country should not have any defence pact on sensitive technology with Pakistan. The Belgian defence minister agreed...
SC: BCI writ runs only over lawyers, not law students
Spread the love Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Bar Council of India has no jurisdiction to discipline or regulate law students NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Bar Council of India has no jurisdiction to discipline or regulate law students and quashed its letters threatening to debar Nalsar University law graduates from registering as advocates for opposing an invitation...
Child sex abuse material on Meta: NHRC notices to IT, I&B ministries
Spread the love Details have also been sought regarding the regulatory status and obligations of Meta NEW DELHI: National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the ministries of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and information and broadcasting (I&B) as part of the ongoing scrutiny of circulation of child sexual abuse material on Instagram.NHRC member Priyank Kanoongo, whose bench issued...
Poverty, inequality seed delinquency in minors: SC
Spread the love The order stands in stark contrast to the lengthy judgement by a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan on July 21 NEW DELHI: The full benefit of protective provisions of Juvenile Justice Act has not yet been extended to children who generally develop delinquent behaviour due to having grown up in poverty and environs...
Government to allow retrofit devices for polluting trucks & buses
Spread the love Govt will soon allow old polluting trucks and buses to be fitted with retrofit emission-control devices NEW DELHI: In a fresh push to curb vehicular pollution, govt will soon allow old polluting trucks and buses to be fitted with retrofit emission-control devices (RECDs) that can reduce particulate matter emissions by up to 90% and nitrogen oxide emissions...
Idaho buries 300 tons of crushed glass under Highway 75
Spread the love Idaho buried nearly 300 tons of crushed waste glass beneath Highway 75 Transport authorities in Idaho turned nearly 300 tonnes of discarded glass into road foundation material under Highway 75, creating a durable structural base while solving a local landfill crisis. The engineering trial, executed along a 200-foot stretch of highway near Ketchum, placed an eight-to-12-inch layer...
Bengal to have 1,000 RSS-run schools within a year: Suvendu
Spread the love Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari set a target Thursday to establish at least 1,000 schools run by RSS KOLKATA: Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari set a target Thursday to establish at least 1,000 schools run by RSS’s education wing Vidya Bharati in every district, municipality and panchayat within a year. He also suggested a plan to merge...
