A Delhi court on Monday awarded three-year jail term to former coal secretary HC Gupta in a coal scam case related to irregularities in allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra, a lawyer associated with the case said. Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj also awarded two-year imprisonment to former joint secretary in the Ministry of Coal […]
Three women were killed in a stampede outside a temple in Rajasthan’s Sikar district early on Monday, police said. Long queues were seen outside the Khatu Shyam temple as devotees had gathered on the occasion of ‘Gyaras’, an auspicious day as per Hindu calendar. Three women were killed in a stampede outside a temple in […]
Star Indian boxer Amit Panghal avenged his last Commonwealth Games final loss by clinching the men’s flyweight (51kg) gold while Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) reigned supreme on her debut appearance here on Sunday.In the evening, Nikhat Zareen won gold medal after beating Northern Ireland pugilist by unanimous verdict in final (50kg). In athletics, Eldhose Paul led […]
Indian boxers Nitu Ghanghas won the women’s 48kg Commonwealth Games title before Amit Panghal (men’s 51kg) joined her on the top of the podium, here on Sunday.Panghal bettered his silver from the last edition as he out-punched European Championship silver medallist England’s Kiaran MacDonald by a 5-0 verdict in the men’s flyweight. Nitu, on the […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said the satellites placed on its maiden Small Satellite Launch Vehicle “are no longer usable” as the SSLV-D1 placed them in an elliptical orbit instead of a circular one. It said failure of a logic to identify a sensor failure and go for a salvage action caused […]
Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high-seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday ahead of the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by the U.S. house speaker. Nancy Pelosi’s visit last week to the self-ruled island infuriated China, which responded with test launches of ballistic […]
ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Sunday informed the space agency’s maiden Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) suffered “data loss” at the terminal stage, although three stages “performed and separated,” and said the space agency was analysing the data to ascertain the status of the vehicle and the satellites. SSLV-D1/EOS 02 was carrying an earth observation […]
Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the vice-president this evening. Members of parliament of both houses voted to elect the next Vice-President in an election where NDA candidate Dhankhar was pitted against Opposition’s Margaret Alva. The BJP-led NDA candidate won the election comfortably with 528 votes against Ms Alva’s 182, the voting for which took place […]
The Sri Lankan government has asked the Chinese government to defer the visit of its space-satellite tracker ship Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port “until further consultations” are made between the two governments. The spy ship was scheduled to dock at Chinese leased Hambantota port on August 11 for refueling and leave on August 17. […]
Voting for electing the new Vice President began here on Saturday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first to cast his vote. A long queue of MPs was seen well before the start of voting.As many as 543 of Lok Sabha MPs and 237 Rajya Sabha MPs, including the nominated members, constitute the electoral college for […]