ISRO to launch communications satellite onboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
In a first, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a 4.7 tonne communications satellite onboard SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket in the second quarter of this year, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) announced on Wednesday. The GSAT-20 communications satellite is aimed at meeting the country’s broadband, in-flight and maritime communications (IFMC) and...
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Lakshadweep small in size, big in heart: Modi
Reaching out to the people of the Muslim-dominated Lakshadweep, which witnessed massive protests by opposition parties against reforms introduced by his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the archipelago is small, but its heart is large. The Prime Minister was here to inaugurate and lay the foundation for various...
Woman employees can now nominate their children for pension in precedence over husband: Centre
A woman employee can now nominate her child or children for family pension in precedence over her husband in case of marital discord, the Centre said on Tuesday. Rule 50 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 allows the grant of family pension following the death of a government servant...
Ramesh writes to CEC, seeks time for INDIA bloc to share views on VVPATS
Congress has written to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, requesting that a team of INDIA bloc leaders are provided an opportunity to meet him and his colleagues to put forward their point of view on VVPATS. In a letter to the CEC, Congress chief spokesman Jairam Ramesh said that on December...
UGC launches Annual Capacity Building Plan for employees
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has become the first autonomous organisation to have launched an annual capacity building plan after the Centre established the Capacity Building Commission in 2021, according to officials. The annual capacity building plan (ACBP) was officially launched on Tuesday by UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar in the...
Will penalise States if MGNREGA workers not linked to ABPS: Minister
Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday slammed the Congress for its criticism of making Aadhaar mandatory for payments under MGNREGA, and said "we will penalise states not workers" if they are not yet linked with the Aadhaar-Based Payment System (ABPS). A day after the ABPS was made mandatory for...
Milk supplies badly hit in Mumbai as truckers strike enters second day
Mumbaikars began to feel the pinch of the truckers’ flash strike against the new penal law on hit-and-run road mishaps on Tuesday, as large sections of them went without milk after thousands of trucks carrying chilled milk failed to reach the metropolis from different parts of Maharashtra and neighbouring states...
Wait for a BJP-backed maha split in TMC: Adhir
Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Chowdhury on Tuesday made a startling claim regarding the ongoing struggle for power between the Old and the New in the Trinamool Congress saying the internal strife in the Bengal ruling outfit was being “scripted in the BJP party office.” Further he said “it will not...
