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Euphoria grips US scientists ahead of India’s Chandrayaan-2 landing

6:37 pm September 6, 2019

New York: US space scientists, including those from NASA, are all over the moon as they await with bated breath for India’s ambitious lunar mission Chandrayaan-2’s historic soft landing on the moon in the early hours of Saturday. Chandrayaan-2’s landing module ‘Vikram’ will begin its final descent to pull off a historic soft landing on […]

PM Modi attends judo tournament with Putin, Abe; interacts with Indian players

8:56 pm September 5, 2019

Vladivostok: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attended an international judo tournament here along with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and interacted with the Indian players. A six-member Indian team is participating in the international judo championship named after Jigoro Kano, a Japanese educator and athlete who founded judo. “Celebrating […]

Gold up Rs 83, silver climbs Rs 160

7:57 pm September 5, 2019

New Delhi: Gold prices on Thursday rose Rs 83 to Rs 39,271 per 10 gram in the national capital, according to HDFC Securities. In Delhi, the price of gold for 24 Karat (99.9 per cent purity) during the day rose to Rs 39,271 per 10 gram as compared with Wednesday’s closing price of Rs 39,188 […]

Chandrayaan-2: ISRO anxious but optimistic ahead of crucial soft-landing

2:23 pm September 5, 2019

Bengaluru: Let’s pray for the successful soft-landing” — that pretty much sums up the mood at ISRO ahead of Saturday’s highly crucial event of the Chandrayaan-2 mission. Nervous and anxious for sure but the city-headquartered space agency is cautiously optimistic of “Vikram” module’s soft-landing on the Lunar surface planned in the early hours of Saturday. […]

Modi discusses Kashmir & raises Zakir Naik's extradition Malaysian PM

Modi discusses Kashmir & raises Zakir Naik’s extradition with Malaysian PM

11:33 am September 5, 2019

Vladivostok: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday explained to his Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamad the rationale behind New Delhi’s decision on Jammu and Kashmir and sought the extradition of controversial Indian televangelist Zakir Naik, who is wanted in India for fuelling terrorism. Prime Minister Modi met the Malaysian Prime Minister on the sidelines of the […]