New Delhi: The government has prepared a comprehensive action plan to crackdown on diversion of highly-subsidised urea to plywood and other industries, and violators could even face a jail term, according to official sources. The Union chemicals and fertilisers ministry will coordinate with other central ministries as well as states to curb the diversions and plans…
Johnnesburg: Top leaders of the BRICS nations on Thursday decided to admit Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as the full members of the grouping that is largely seen as a counterweight to Western powers. The decision to invite the six countries to join the bloc as the new members…
Jaipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday suggested the G20 trade ministers to work collectively to ensure equitable competition between large and small sellers as there are challenges in the fast growing cross-border e-commerce. In a video message at the G20 Trade and Investment Minister’s meeting here, he also emphasised on the need to address the…
New Delhi: Former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday wrote to ISRO Chairman S Somanath over the success of Chandrayaan-3, saying the space agency’s outstanding capabilities have been built up over decades and it being anchored on self-reliance since the early sixties has contributed to its great successes. In her letter to Somanath, the Congress parliamentary…
New Delhi: Congratulations have poured in for India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi from across the world, including the neighbourhood, on the success of the country’s lunar mission. Modi thanked them, asserting that India’s strides in space will truly benefit humanity in the times to come. “India will continue to explore, learn and share for the…
Johannesburg: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov here on Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit and discussed recent global developments. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is representing Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit. President Putin has decided against attending the first in-person BRICS summit after Covid-19 as the International…
Washington: American politicians, newspapers and space research institutions hailed India Wednesday on the successful moon landing of Chandrayaan-3 as the country entered the elite club of three other nations — United States, Russia and China — that have a rover on the lunar surface. In the process, India became the first country among the elite group…
The perfect soft touch down of the Chandrayan 3 mission on the moon’s surface on 23 August 2023 at the scheduled time of 6:04 pm demonstrates India’s prowess in space research and technology that matured over the last 61 years since the inception of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 1962. The Indian National Committee…
(D. Nagarjuna) India, for all the good reasons, has captured the world’s headlines with a remarkable achievement for everyone to be proud of. Our country has enabled every one of us to feel elated after the successful landing of Chandrayaan 3. I was keenly monitoring this project not only because a close relative…
New Delhi: India on Wednesday joined an elite group of three nations to have sent a spacecraft on the moon as Chandrayaan-3 landed a rover on the lunar surface to explore the uncharted territories near the south pole. The erstwhile Soviet Union, the US and China have successfully carried out soft landings on the moon and…
