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NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck the Andaman Sea on Thursday morning near Malaysia, according to the National Centre for Seismology. The tremor was recorded at 08:49:45 IST at a depth of 75 km.The quake’s epicentre was located at a latitude of 5.57°N and a longitude of 95.07°E. There were no immediate reports […]

NEW DELHI: Space regulator and promoter Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) on Wednesday announced the launch of Technology Adoption Fund (TAF) to nurture and support the growth of India’s space technology capabilities. The fund is designed to support the transition of early-stage space technologies developed by Indian companies into commercially-viable products.By providing

BENGALURU: Space startup GalaxEye, which earlier this year completed analysis of the data from the payload it had deployed and tested aboard Isro’s PSLV Orbital Experiment Module (POEM) platform — on the rocket that launched India’s Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission on Dec 30, 2024 — has achieved another success.The firm, its CEO and co-founder

Married at 16, Ashalata Pandey of Ambajogai — a temple town known as the ‘maternal home of education’ in Maharashtra’s Beed — had to hide her face after her husband left for a religious trip one fine day, from which he never returned.“Aren’t you sad about the fact that he left you?” “How can you

BENGALURU: India will not build a large rocket for its planned crewed mission to the Moon, but instead rely on multiple launches and satellite docking technology, as per Isro’s current plans for the mission targeted for 2040.“One option is to build a huge rocket and take a single module. But what will you do with

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday alleged “large-scale voter list manipulation” in the country, with BJP securing addition of new names ahead of elections. The party said there were lakhs of “bogus” voters in Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi, where BJP recently won assembly elections, and called it a “grave threat to democracy”. Congress

CHANDIGARH: Settling a 64-year-old dispute that includes a 20-year legal battle over a piece of land in a Hisar village being used by a power discom, Punjab and Haryana HC has directed the authorities to pay land usage charges since 1961 and compensate the owners upon acquiring the land.HC ruled that compensation should be granted

TIRUPUR: A 27-year-old woman from Odisha was gang-raped at knifepoint in front of her husband here on Monday by three guest workers from Bihar. The Tirupur North all-woman police arrested the trio on Tuesday night.According to an investigation officer, the woman, along with her husband and three-year-old child, visited Tirupur on Monday (February 17) in

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that once a designated Foreigners Tribunal rejects Assam govt’s claim that a person is an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant who entered the state after March 25, 1971, the tribunal cannot review its own order based on the administration’s fresh plea and additional documents.A tribunal had on Feb 15, 2018,