Mumbai: NASA’s mission that launched sounding rockets during the recent total solar eclipse was led by Aroh Barjatya, an India-born researcher who studied in cities across the country before moving to the United States, his family said. The US space agency on April 8 launched three sounding rockets during the solar eclipse — visible in…
Rajnadgaon: A man allegedly working as a courier for senior Naxalite leaders was arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki district on Thursday, a police official said. Maoist pamphlets and posters urging people to boycott Lok Sabha polls were seized from Ashwant Aandhia, who was held on a tip off at a mobile check post of the…
New Delhi: The BJP lashed out at RJD leader Misa Bharti on Thursday for threatening to put its leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in jail if the INDIA bloc is voted to power at the Centre and said people will give the opposition parties a fitting reply in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls for…
Bengaluru: BJP MLA Arabail Shivaram Hebbar’s son Vivek Hebbar on Thursday joined the Congress party along with his supporters at Banavasi in Uttara Kannada district. After quitting the BJP, Vivek Hebbar joined the party in the presence of state Congress Vice President and former MLC Ivan D’Souza and other local party leaders. Speculations have been…
New Delhi: Lt Governor VK Saxena said this year’s Eid was perhaps for the first time in the history of Delhi that ‘namaz’ was offered inside mosques and not on the roads, and added that it was an excellent example of harmony and co-existence. Saxena greeted people on the occasion of Eid on Thursday and…
New Delhi: Olympic gold-medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is aiming to breach the 90m mark before the Paris Olympics and says the way his preparations are going, it could happen anytime soon. Chopra’s best throw in competition came during the 2022 Stockholm Diamond League, where he hurled the spear to a distance of 89.94m. While…
Bengaluru: Veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Thursday said votes cast for Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be a vote for anarchy, economic bankruptcy, corruption, instability and it will push the country’s internal security into jeopardy. The former chief minister also claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s leadership has completely failed,…
Bengaluru: The Election Commission on Thursday said that Rs 45.67 crore cash and alcohol worth over Rs 146 crore was seized and 1,544 FIRs in this regard have been filed since the model code of conduct came into effect on March 16. Total seizures worth Rs 292.74 crore have been made till date, the EC…
Ningbo (China): Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu fought valiantly but was outperformed by sixth seed Han Yue of China in a gruelling pre-quarterfinal of the Badminton Asia Championships here on Thursday. Sindhu, who is desperately seeking to rediscover her form ahead of the Paris Olympics, fought hard for an hour and nine minutes before losing…
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday dismissed the BJP’s claim of a strong performance in south India in the Lok Sabha polls as a product of its “propaganda mill”, and said the narratives that the ruling party harps on in the north, such as communalism, religious division and nativist social cleavages, do…
