Day: August 15, 2020

Top DRDO prize for Noida varsity scientist's concept to recognize person's identity in dark

DRDO anti-drone system deployed during I-Day celebration to deal with aerial threats

9:27 pm August 15, 2020

New Delhi: An anti-drone system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was deployed to tackle any sub-conventional aerial threat during the Independence Day celebration at the Red Fort on Saturday. A senior DRDO official said the system has the capacity to bring down any drone through either jamming of command and control links or by damaging […]

Another body of landslide victim recovered from Talacauvery

9:20 pm August 15, 2020

Madikeri: One more body was retrieved from the debris of a landslide at Talacauvery in rain-hit Kodagu district of Karnataka on Saturday, police said. With this bodies of three people have been recovered. According to police, the victim has been identified as Ravi Kiran, 21, one of the assistant temple priests who stayed at the house of chief priest Narayana Achar […]

Prince Charles leads UK’s VJ Day World War II end commemoration

9:15 pm August 15, 2020

London: Britain’s Prince Charles on Saturday led the UK’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan (VJ) Day – the day World War II ended with Japan‘s surrender in 1945. The 71-year-old heir to the British throne, joined by wife Camilla – Duchess of Cornwall, led a two-minute UK-wide silence from the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England as […]

PM Modi pays tributes to Sri Aurobindo on birth anniversary

9:07 pm August 15, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to Sri Aurobindo, a freedom fighter and spiritual philosopher, on his birth anniversary, saying he was synonymous with brilliance and courage “Tributes to Sri Aurobindo on his Jayanti. He was synonymous with brilliance and courage. His thoughts and ideals, views on spirituality continue to motivate us. “Here are […]

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

Germany defends calling Spain virus ‘risk area’

9:05 pm August 15, 2020

Berlin: Germany’s health minister has defended the decision to declare all of mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands “risk areas” for coronavirus infection. Travellers must undergo compulsory testing and two-week quarantine after arriving from there. Health Minister Jens Spahn told Bild on Saturday that he knows “how much Germans love Spain as a vacation destination. But the numbers there are rising quickly, too quickly.” The […]