Author: PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the city to witness live, Chandrayaan-2’s landing module ‘Vikram’ trying to pull off a historic soft-landing on the lunar surface in the early hours of Saturday.

DMK chief M K Stalin on Thursday came in for praise from a senior State BJP leader who lauded him for steering the Dravidian party to a tremendous victory in the Lok Sabha polls, where Tamilnadu bucked the national trend of saffron surge.

With incessant rains lashing the hilly Nilgiris district, all major water bodies are filling up fast, and the district administration on Thursday issued a flood alert to those living on the banks of Pykara dam, from where water is being released.

The Supreme Court today allowed former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter to meet her in Kashmir, where she is under detention following the revocation of the State’s special status a month ago.

As ISRO waits with bated breath for the soft-landing of Chandrayaan-2’s ‘Vikram’ module on the Moon in the dark hours of Saturday, a top space scientist recalled his ‘nail-biting moment’ experience during the launch
of India’s first lunar mission more than a decade ago.

The US Department of Justice on Wednesday said it has filed a lawsuit against Novelis, a major aluminium company fully owned by India’s Aditya Birla Group, seeking to stop it from acquiring rival player Aleris over concern that the acquisition would create a monopoly in aluminium industry.

Finance Commission Chairman N K Singh Wednesday held a meeting with Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and key officials of her ministry.

The growing popularity of tutorial apps seems to have increased the interest in teaching jobs if a survey result is any indication as there has been 41 percent spike in searches for teaching as a career in the past three years.

GE T&D India announced on Wednesday that it received a grid upgradation order worth Rs 90 crore from the West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company (WBSETCL) for transmission infrastructure.