Day: January 23, 2020

COVID-19 testing begins at SAIL's Rourkela plant in Odisha: Pradhan

India to see Rs 4 lakh cr investment in gas infrastructure: Pradhan

7:49 pm January 23, 2020

New Delhi: India will see an investment of over Rs 4 lakh crore in development of gas supply and distribution infrastructure in the next five years as it chases the target of more than doubling the share of the environment-friendly fuel in its energy basket to 15 per cent by 2030, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan […]

US stocks open sharply lower amid pressure on oil market

Kuwait firm to set up Rs 49,000 cr oil refinery in TN: CM

7:46 pm January 23, 2020

Chennai: Kuwait based Al Kharafi plans to set up an oil refinery and a petrochemical manufacturing facility at an investment of Rs 49,000 crore in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said here on Thursday. The setting up of the refinery would see the southern districts in the state develop like Jamnagar in Gujarat and […]

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

‘NASA’s spacecraft completes closest flyover of asteroid sample site’

7:41 pm January 23, 2020

Washington: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully executed a 620-metre flyover of Nightingale, a site located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere, the US space agency said. According to scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the US, the spacecraft left its 1.2-kilometre safe home orbit and flew an almost 11-hour transit […]

Israel’s Netanyahu ‘determined’ to continue Gaza operation

India expresses solidarity with Israel as world leaders gather in Jerusalem against anti-Semitism

7:33 pm January 23, 2020

Jerusalem: India on Thursday expressed solidarity with Israel as the world leaders from 47 countries descended in Jerusalem to attend the World Holocaust Forum and commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp. “India expresses solidarity with Israel on 75th Anniv of liberation of #Auschwitz. We also pay homage to Maharaja Jam Sahib […]

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects COVID-19 shot, calls masks taboo

‘Dynamic democracy’ India will solve ‘internal matter’ CAA, Kashmir: Brazil

7:25 pm January 23, 2020

New Delhi: The amended citizenship law and the situation in Kashmir are internal issues of India and the country with its dynamic democracy will find solutions to these “challenges”, Brazilian envoy Andre Aranha Correa do Lago said on Thursday. The envoy told PTI in an interview that his country was following developments on the two […]