Day: July 30, 2020

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

6:27 pm July 30, 2020

Cape Canaveral : The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analysed for evidence of ancient life. NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into […]

Catalan separatists sue Spain’s ex-spy chief over phone hack

6:20 pm July 30, 2020

Barcelona: Two Catalan separatist politicians filed a lawsuit Thursday against the former head of Spain’s intelligence agency and an Israeli technology company for allegedly trying to hack their cell phones. Roger Torrent, the speaker of Catalonia’s regional parliament, and Ernest Maragall, a member of Barcelona’s town council, filed the suit at a Barcelona courthouse against former spy chief Félix Sanz Roldán and the Israeli company […]

Rupee slips 4 paise to 74.84 per US dollar

6:13 pm July 30, 2020

Mumbai: The rupee fell 4 paise to close at 74.84 against the American currency on Thursday amid month-end dollar demand from importers and a weak trend in domestic equities. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened at 74.84 and shuttled between a high of 74.80 and a low of 74.88 against the greenback. […]

Speed up action against chit fund firms: C'garh CM

Take lockdown seriously, Chhattisgarh CM tells people

6:10 pm July 30, 2020

Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday urged people to take the ongoing lockdown to contain coronavirus seriously. He, however, also noted that the pandemic situation in Chhattisgarh was better than many other states in the country. “We had to take the decision to enforce lockdown in urban areas to contain the spread of […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Maha SSC exam: Boy scores 35 marks in all subjects

6:07 pm July 30, 2020

Aurangabad: A 14-year-old boy from Beed has become the talk of the town after scoring 35 marks each in all the subjects in the Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC-Class 10) examination. Thirty five is the minimum score required for passing in a subject in the SSC exam, the results of which were declared on Wednesday. […]