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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau sends wishes to Asha Bhosle on her birthday

12:01 pm September 9, 2019

Mumbai: Music icon Asha Bhosle turned 86 on Sunday and the veteran singer had a special birthday message from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau sent a signed birthday note to Bhosle which read: “It is a great pleasure to send you best wishes and warmest congratulations on the occasion of your eighty-fifth birthday.” The […]

Powerful typhoon Faxai in direct hit on Tokyo

7:37 am September 9, 2019

Tokyo: Powerful typhoon Faxai with potentially record winds and rain battered the Tokyo region early Monday, sparking evacuation warnings to tens of thousands, widespread blackouts and transport disruption. Typhoon Faxai, packing winds of up to 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour, made landfall in Chiba just east of the capital before dawn, after barrelling through […]

‘One last adventure’: Bottle with man’s ashes resumes journey in Gulf of Mexico

4:55 am September 9, 2019

A bottle containing the ashes of a Texas man along with some handwritten notes from loved ones has been returned to the Gulf of Mexico, resuming its ocean journey after it washed up on a Florida Panhandle beach. The beachgoer who found the bottle near Miramar Beach handed it over to local authorities last week. […]

'NASA analysing images of Chandrayaan-2's landing site'

Hopes fading on re-establishing link with lander Vikram: ISRO

8:02 pm September 8, 2019

Bengaluru: ISRO is continuing its efforts to restore link with Chandrayaan-2’s lander ‘Vikram’, but experts say time is running out and possibility of re-establishing communication looks “less and less probable.” Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan said on Saturday that the space agency will try to establish link with the lander for 14 […]

Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander located on lunar surface: ISRO chairman

6:50 pm September 8, 2019

Bengaluru: The Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module has been located on the lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, ISRO chairman K. Sivan said on Sunday, in an admission that the planned soft-landing wasn’t successful. “Yes, we have located the lander on the lunar surface. It must have been a hard-landing,” Mr. Sivan told a […]