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New Delhi: Only three countries in the world – United States, Russia, and China – have the ability to carry out docking of two spacecraft or satellites in outer space. India is now on the cusp of achieving that feat as ISRO’s last mission of 2024 – named SpaDeX – lift-off from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota…
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Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Police on Monday said it arrested a couple on charges of defrauding people by impersonating themselves as the daughter and son-in-law of PK Mishra, the principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The couple, identified as Hansita Abhilipsa (38) and her accomplice Anil Kumar Mohanty, believed to be her husband, were accused of…
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New Delhi: With an average Air Quality Index of 294, Delhi has recorded its cleanest December air since the introduction of the AQI system in 2015. This improvement can be attributed to strong, consistent winds in the first half of the month and record-breaking rainfall in the second, officials said. According to data from the…
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Geneva: The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet. Covid-19 killed millions of people, shredded economies and crippled health systems. “We continue to call on China to share data and access…
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Rajat Verma has a 27-year track record across consumer and corporate banking including transactional banking, financial institutions, sustainable finance, micro and SME banking, as well as branch banking. File The Reserve Bank of India has approved the proposal to appoint Rajat Verma as the new CEO of DBS Bank India. Mr. Verma, currently Head of…
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India’s Reliance Industries KG-D6’s control and raiser platform is seen off the Bay of Bengal in this undated handout photo. India’s Reliance Industries Ltd resumed crude oil production from its east coast MA-1 field on March 8 following an emergency shutdown in December, Upstream Regulator V.K. Sibal said on March 12, 2009. | Photo Credit:…
World number one Magnus Carlsen on Monday criticised senior FIDE officials, including its deputy president Viswanathan Anand, for mishandling the dress code violation issue, calling them “not grown-ups” and stating that the Indian was “not ready for the job.” A couple of days after being disqualified from the Rapid event at the World…
Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, the victim of a mass rape orchestrated by her then-husband Dominique Pelicot at their home in the southern French town of Mazan, talks to journalists, surrounded by relatives and her lawyers, after the verdict in the trial for Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-accused, at the courthouse in Avignon, France, December 19, 2024….
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the state-run TASS news agency that Moscow opposed that idea as well as others being proposed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “Russia is against the deployment of Western peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict,” Foreign…
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ISRO successfully launches Polar Satellite Launch vehicle (PSLV-C60) with two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDEX) satellites SDX01 (Chaser) and SDX02 (Target) and 24 other innovative payloads from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), in Sriharikota on December 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI/ISRO ISRO’s PSLV-C60 rocket carrying two spacecraft that would aid in demonstration of space…
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