The air quality in Delhi is expected to deteriorate and enter the "very poor" category on October 23 and 24, according to the India Meteorological Department and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, prompting the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to invoke Stage 2 of the Graded Response Action Plan measures (Grap).
Today nothing is impossible for India, says PM Modi on successful launch of Isro's Gaganyaan mission. Today India is preparing to set up its own space station. Today you saw that the test flight of Gaganyaan and the crew escape system were successfully launched...Today nothing is impossible for India, he said.
Gaza war death toll rises to 4,385, according to Hamas health ministry. In order to avert its conflict with Hamas, the Israeli military has pushed Palestinian people to gather in the southern parts of the enclave, where it declared only those areas would get humanitarian aid.
Severe Cyclonic Storm 'TEJ' intensifies over Southwest Arabian Sea. Pronounced as 'TEJ, ' it's currently centered near Socotra, Yemen, according to IMD.
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. said India’s central bank has approved the appointment of Ashok Vaswani as its next chief executive officer and managing director, succeeding interim CEO Dipak Gupta. Vaswani’s appointment will be effective no later than Jan. 1, 2024 for three years.
The three main parachutes of Gaganyaan TV-D1 deployed after the successful test vehicle launch. Gaganyaan Test Vehicle - Demonstration (TV-D1) test flight was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This is the first in a series of test flights for a mission that will put India on the small and exclusive list of countries that can launch a crewed spacecraft by itself. The Gaganyaan mission aims to send humans into space on a Low Earth Orbit of 400km for a three-day mission and bring them safely back to Earth.
The Indian government on Friday rejected any notion that it had violated international law in asking Canada to recall diplomats so that both governments have roughly the same number stationed in each country. Canada said Thursday it was recalling 41 of its 62 diplomats in India after what it said was New Delhi's warning that it would strip their diplomatic immunity something Canadian officials characterised as a violation of the Geneva Convention.
The Biden administration is proposing changes in the H1B foreign workers programme to improve efficiency by streamlining eligibility, providing more flexibility to F-1 students, entrepreneurs and those working for non-profit bodies and ensuring better condition for other non-immigrant workers.
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