The Supreme Court on Monday granted time till April 8 to 21 opposition parties to file their reply to the Election Commission's affidavit on counting of VVPAT slips. The opposition parties have filed a petition in the SC seeking that VVPAT slips of at least 50% of voting machines in each assembly constituency be checked randomly in the Lok Sabha elections.
Around 17 minutes after lift-off, PSLV placed Emisat in an orbit in a 753.6km altitude. In the course of the next 1.5 hours, the launch vehicle’s fourth and final stage -- PS4 --- will be restarted and shut down twice, as the rocket manoeuvres to a 504km orbit. The PS4 will place in orbit 28 foreign satellites belonging to the US, Lithuania, Spain and Switzerland.
The countdown began at 6.27 am on Sunday for the launch on board Indian Space Research Organisation's third generation workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its 47th flight, Isro said. The four-stage PSLV-C45 will blast off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota at 9.27am on Monday, agency officials said.
In a free-flowing interview, UP CM Yogi Adityanath talks about the SP-BSP gathbandhan and its plan to kick off its campaign from Deoband. He also takes on Congress which is trying to make a spirited comeback in UP as he lays down his development agenda, including the grand Kumbh Mela he had organised.
The terrorist behind Friday's car blast on the Banihal stretch of Jammu-Srinagar highway identified himself as Owais Amin of Hizbul Mujhaideen in a 'suicide note' he left behind owning up to the attack, even though he seems to have subsequently changed his mind and abandoned the explosives-laden car moments before the blast.
Breaking yet another glass ceiling, India will post women officers as defence attaches in its overseas missions. After a decision taken by the government early this year, the three Services have been asked to identify women officers who could fill the posts. Sources said the first women officers could go out as soon as on the next "rotation".
More than one lakh students from India enrolled in Australian educational institutions during 2018, constituting 12.4 per cent of the overall international enrolments. This was a rise of 24.5 per cent over the previous calendar year. China continued to lead with 2.56 lakh students (or 29 per cent of the total).
After joining the party, he told ANI: "I have officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party today. Tomorrow, I will take part in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Hyderabad." Earlier in the day, Reddy had met Prime Minister Modi here and had expressed his desire to join the BJP.
"The comments made by Shivshankar Menon were erroneous and a flight of imagination," said Dr Saraswat, also a NITI Aayog member, while referring to Menon's interview to a news portal where he claimed that Dr Saraswat "never asked me for permission for A-SAT test."
Setting to rest all fears and concerns, former DRDO scientist Ravi Gupta told TOI, “Whenever a country is launching a satellite, it calculates all the risk involved in the mission by considering each and every object, whether space debris or any other satellite, that may come in the path of the satellite
Addressing a 'Main bhi chowkidar' event here, he also said 'Mission Shakti, demonstrating India's anti-satellite missile capability, had nothing to do with polls and hit out at those opposing his announcement of it in an address to the nation
“Odisha Hindustan ko surprise kar dega. Is baar Odisha dusra Tripura ban jayega. (Odisha will surprise India. It will become a second Tripura)” Modi said while interacting with people from various parts of the country under his ‘MainBhiChowkidar’ programme
Surjewala said that the Congress government had approved a multi-dimensional North South Corridor road plan to connect the North and South parts of Haryana in December, 2010, but the statement of BJP MP from Bhiwani has proven the ill designs of Modi and Khattar government to cancel this scheme.
Speaking to newsmen here on Sunday, Chennithala said that they are expressing their gratitude to Rahul as he accepted the request of Congress state leaders to contest from Wayanad.
There was no need to attach any special importance to the Congress president contesting from the state and Gandhi was just one among the 20 candidates of the opposition UDF, who are trying their luck from Kerala, he said. "If Gandhi's fight is against the BJP, he should have contested against the saffron party. In Kerala, the fight is between LDF and UDF in the elections," Vijayan told a meet-the-press programme at the Press Club here.