Jagannath Temple is located in Puri, a coastal city in Odisha, on the eastern coast of India. The temple is situated near the Bay of Bengal and is one of the four sacred Char Dham pilgrimage sites for Hindus. The temple’s presiding deity is Lord Jagannath, a form of Lord Vishnu or Lord Krishna. He…
New Delhi: India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts entered the International Space Station (ISS) to warm hugs and handshakes on Thursday as the Dragon spacecraft docked to the orbital laboratory after a 28-hour journey around Earth. The new spacecraft — fifth in the Dragon series, named Grace — achieved a soft capture with the…
New Delhi: Tensions within the Congress continue to simmer as party MP and senior leader Shashi Tharoor posted a cryptic message on social media amid ongoing speculation about his equation with the party leadership. Responding sharply, Congress MP Manickam Tagore took a veiled dig at Tharoor, suggesting that “even a free bird must watch the…
Leeds (England): The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced India’s squad for the second Test against India at Edgbaston. Star pacer Jofra Archer has made his return to the squad after a long wait. Notably, Archer played his last Test match against India in Ahmedabad in 2021. Since then, Archer has suffered multiple injuries and…
New Delhi: Group Captain Shubanshu Shukla, the 39-year-old Indian Air Force pilot and now astronaut, sent his first message from orbit on Wednesday, just hours after launching aboard the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station. “Namaskar, mere deshvasiyon,” Shukla said from inside the SpaceX Dragon capsule, calling the journey “one hell of a ride.”…
Amaravati: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday accused the TDP-led NDA government of lacking fiscal discipline and exceeding 50 per cent of the borrowings incurred by the previous YSRCP regime in just 13 months. Reddy said that the Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) concluded the second tranche of…
New Delhi: India has evacuated 272 Indian and three Nepalese nationals from Iran following the conflict with Israel, officials said on Thursday. A special flight carrying them arrived in Delhi a little past midnight from the Iranian city of Mashhad. “#OperationSindhu update 272 Indian and 3 Nepalese nationals were evacuated from Iran on a special…
Los Angeles: “Normal People” star Daisy Edgar-Jones will essay the lead character of Elinor Dashwood in a fresh cinematic take on the classic Jane Austen novel “Sense and Sensibility”. The project, which will be directed by Georgia Oakley from a script by bestselling author Diana Reid, comes from Focus Features and Working Title Films. It…
Qingdao: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has refused to sign a joint statement at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet because it did not mention the 22 April Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, news agencies reported on 26 June. While skipping any mention of Pahalgam, the document mentioned Balochistan, tacitly accusing India…
New Delhi: A clerk working at the Indian Navy’s headquarters in New Delhi has been arrested on charges of espionage, accused of leaking sensitive military information to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), including during the recently concluded Operation Sindoor, according to media reports. The accused, identified as Vishal Yadav, a resident of Haryana, was nabbed by the…
