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It was the 20th flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle. (Photo by C Suresh Kumar) SRIHARIKOTA: India’s regional satellite navigation system, NavIC, which was facing a shortage of operational satellites, got a boost with the successful launch of NVS-03 on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).GSLV-F18 carrying…

J&K health minister Sakina Itoo writes to LG Manoj Sinha, flagging civilian inconvenience due to highway closures during Army convoy movement SRINAGAR: J&K health minister Sakina Itoo, in a letter to lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, flagged the practice of closing off both ends of Srinagar-Anantnag-Kulgam-Qazigund national highway for civilian traffic during the movement of Army…

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad on Friday expressed regret over his remarks, days after asking people not to attend the funerals of farmers who die by suicide. He had urged crop growers to support their families and not abandon them.Gaikwad claimed that he had not, in fact, mentioned farmers in his remarks and…

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday raised concerns over repeated attacks on civilian shipping and seafarers at the G20 foreign affairs ministers’ meeting, stressing the urgent need to safeguard freedom of navigation.In a post on X, Jaishankar said the Global South was disproportionately bearing the consequences of attacks in the Middle East,…

Ritabrata also questioned Abhishek’s decision to seek security after previously claiming that he did not need it. He said the TMC leader had earlier maintained that he had the “security of the people”. NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Bengal assembly Ritabrata Banerjee on Friday hit back at Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek…

NEW DELHI: With around 2,000 MBBS seats remaining vacant across the country, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has announced a special stray vacancy round of NEET-UG 2026 counselling to fill the remaining seats.The registration process will begin on November 2 and continue until November 4 (3pm), according to the schedule issued by DGHS…

The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha made the remark during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Instagram on Friday NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday took another swipe at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), calling men who wear brown shorts and white shirts and consider themselves superior to women the “single…

The enumeration will not be conducted in poll bound or in the snow-bound areas. (Photo: IANS) NEW DELHI: Population enumeration for the 2027 Census will be conducted across most of India from January 25 to February 28, 2027, with poll-bound states and snow-bound regions excluded from the schedule, the government announced on Friday.According to a…

Kapil Sibal hits back at Kiren Rijiju NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Kapil Sibal on Friday referred to the alleged use of pellet guns against student protesters by security forces in Delhi, saying that the Congress government had “never used” pellet guns or resorted to lathi-charge against demonstrators, unlike the current BJP-led government.His remarks came…

BJP leaders, workers, and supporters carry national flags and party banners during the ‘Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao’ protest march at Chandni Chowk in New Delhi on Wednesday NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to launch a counter-protest in Delhi against the Congress-led INDIA bloc’s rally against voter irregularities at Ramlila Maidan on November…