NEW DELHI: The Axiom-4 mission holds major significance for India’s ‘Gaganyaan’ programme as the experience gained by Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla during his trip to the International Space Station will help Isro fine-tune India’s first human spaceflight mission, slated for early 2027.Though the four astronaut-designates for Gaganyaan – group captains Shukla, Prasanth Nair,…
KANPUR: Two passengers died while 52 others were injured after a speeding double-decker bus heading from Bihar to Delhi skidded off the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and plunged into a ditch in Saifai area of Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah early Thursday.The bus departed from Bihar’s Madhubani around 3pm on Wednesday with 67 passengers. “The bus was moving at…
Just before he climbed into the Tesla that would ferry him to the launchpad in Florida’s predawn darkness on June 25, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla had a brief moment with his wife. “How’s the josh?” she asked, echoing a line immortalised in Indian cinema. “High,” replied Shux.“We are a bit filmy that way,” Kamna told…
DEHRADUN: Close to 60 men from Nepal have in recent days been rescued from months-long captivity by teams comprising officials in India, staff from the Nepal embassy and NGO workers after the youth – many of them minors – were trafficked into UP, Uttarakhand and Bihar by shady job networks. Those in the know say…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: A mysterious gift deed transferring ownership of a three-acre parcel of land in Maharashtra, valued at around Rs 150 crore, from descendants of Hyderabad’s famous Salar Jung family to Shiv Sena MP Sandipanrao Bhumre’s driver has triggered more than just incredulous surprise at his sudden turn of fortune.The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of…
NEW DELHI: RSS national general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday demanded that the current generation of Congress, which claims to vouch for the Constitution, must apologise for imposition of Emergency by Indira Gandhi govt 50 years ago. Hosabale made a strong pitch for considering whether two words – socialist and secular – which were added…
Former Maharashtra minister Babanrao Lonikar sparked controversy after a video showed him criticising youths for targeting state govt on social media and being ungrateful despite “wearing clothes given by our govt”. Lonikar’s remarks, made Wednesday at a public event, left the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in a bind, prompting CM Devendra Fadnavis to reprimand the Jalna…
MYSURU/BENGALURU: A tigress and her four cubs were found dead on Thursday in Hoogyam forest range of Karnataka’s Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, in what officials called the state’s worst single-day tiger death toll at a single location. Preliminary suspicion: poisoning.Forest officials said that the tigress had killed a cow days earlier. Poison is believed…
JAIPUR: Intelligence agencies’ review of social media accounts flagged in a 2022 ISI espionage case involving a Sena Bhawan staffer led investigators to trace a new money trail, resulting in the arrest of an upper division clerk posted at Naval HQ in Delhi. The clerk, Vishal Yadav, is accused of passing on sensitive information to…
NEW DELHI: In a decision that will benefit users of highways and bypasses that have structures — flyovers, underpasses and tunnels – accounting for more than 50% of their length, the toll rate for such stretches (with structures) will be halved and capped at five times the normal toll. Till now, the toll for stretches…