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Joshimath: Team of senior officials and experts led by Garhwal Commissioner Sushil Kumar during its visit to assess the cracks appearing in houses in Joshimath, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (PTI Photo)
India to send aquanauts 500 mtrs under sea this year in Samudrayaan
India will send three explorers to a depth of 500 metres under the sea in an indigenously built vessel, Samudrayaan, this year, an official says.
Engineers at the National Institute of Ocean Technology in Chennai have designed the steel sphere that will house the aquanauts for their journey, he says.
However, the plan to send the Samudrayaan to 6,000 metres deep into the sea could be delayed due to difficulty in procuring the titanium sphere capable of withstanding pressure at those depths, the official, requesting anonymity, told PTI on the sidelines of the Indian Science Congress underway in Nagpur.
Imran Khan alleges former army chief Gen Bajwa wanted to get him killed
In a fresh attack on Gen (retd.) Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that the former army chief wanted to have him murdered and impose a state of emergency in the country.
Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, made the startling allegation during an interview with private Bol News channel in Lahore.
Khan, 70, had been at loggerheads with Gen (retd.) Bajwa ever since his ouster from power in April by a no-confidence motion.
He suffered bullet injuries in the right leg on November 3 when two gunmen fired a volley of bullets at him and others standing on a container-mounted truck in Wazirabad, some 150 km from Lahore, where he was leading the long march to press for snap polls.
ISRO and Microsoft collaborate to support space-tech start-ups in India
Indian Space Research Organisation and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fuel the growth of space technology start-ups in India.
The MoU, signed Thursday, has come at a time when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is visiting India. He shared an image on his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier Thursday.
The ISRO-Microsoft collaboration seeks to strengthen the Indian space agency's vision of harnessing the market potential of the most promising space tech innovators and entrepreneurs in India, the US-based tech giant said in a statement.
124 out of about 19,000 international travellers tested found Covid positive: Official sources
Haldwani encroachment: SC says can't uproot 50,000 people overnight, to hear matter on Feb 7
The top court also issues notices to Uttarakhand government and India Railways on the pleas challenging the high court’s decision.
Tihar top officials accuse jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain of intimidation, lodge complaint
Top officials of Tihar Jail in Delhi have accused minister Satyendar Jain of threatening and intimidating them. They have lodged a complaint against him to the director-general (prisons), sources tell PTI.
Jain has been in jail since he was arrested by the enforcement directorate last year in connection with a money laundering case. Purported videos of him getting massages and meeting visitors inside the jail had created a furore with the opposition demanding his removal from the Cabinet.
The sources tell the agency that the additional inspector general - prisons (Tihar Jail), superintendent of jail no. 07 (SCJ-7), deputy superintendent, assistant superintendent and the law officer complained to the director-general (prisons) that Jain had been "abusing them and threatening them with dire consequences once he gets out of the prison".
Bihar Congress MLA gets one-year jail term in poll violation case
A special MP-MLA court in Bhagalpur has given a one-year imprisonment to Congress leader Ajit Sharma.
The special court judge Vivek Kumar Singh found Sharma and his six associates guilty of obstructing the polling during the 2020 assembly election. The court, however, gave provisional bail to all of them immediately.
Sharma, who was then the sitting MLA and candidate of the Congress, obstructed the proceedings of election procedures and stopped the roaming voting vehicle in Bhikhanpur locality under Bhagalpur city constituency on November 3, 2020.
It may take years to neutralise hatred, poison spread by RSS, says Jairam Ramesh
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh says the Bharat Jodo Yatra is intended to take on the divisive ideology and build harmony. It is not designed as an election-winning yatra, he adds.
"I think we are late as we were more focussed on elections and this yatra should have been (taken out) earlier because it's a battle of ideology and it may take years to nuetralise the poison of hatred spread by RSS," he tells reporters in Shamli (Uttar Pradesh).
He says the yatra will remain in UP for three days as it has to reach Srinagar by January 30, before the Budget Session starts on January 31.
First flight carrying 179 passengers lands at new Goa airport; CM Sawant hails 'big achievement'
The first passenger flight landed at the Manohar International Airport in Goa from Hyderabad on Thursday, marking the commencement of operations at the new facility in the coastal state. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said this was a "big achievement" for the state and the Centre.
The IndiGo flight from Hyderabad carrying 179 passengers landed at 9 am at the new airport located at Mopa in North Goa district, airport officials said.
Union minister Shripad Naik, the parliamentarian from North Goa, CM Sawant and state tourism minister Rohan Khaunte welcomed the passengers.
There was also a live band performance outside the airport to welcome the passengers.
Reflection of govt's insensitivity: Bihar BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha on lathi-charge against BSSC aspirants
Senior BJP leader and the leader of opposition in Bihar Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha has hit out at the state government for its "insensitivity" after a lathi-charge on Bihar Staff Selection Commmission (BSSC) aspirants.
Sinha said the government should have called the students and listened to their demands. "It's a reflection of the government's insensitivity. The students were taking out a peaceful procession but a barbaric lathi charge was done in such cold weather. They (Govt) should have called those students and listened to their demands. Why don't they get CBI investigation done?" said Sinha.
Yogi Adityanath calls on Maharashtra governor, pays respects to Shivaji
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Thursday.
He visited the 19th century underground bunker museum at Raj Bhavan and inspected the gallery of revolutionaries 'Kranti Gatha' created inside the bunker. The museum was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June last year.
The UP chief minister also paid tributes at the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Later, he visited the historic Sri Gundi Devi Mandir located at the cliff of Malabar Point facing the Arabic ocean inside Raj Bhavan and performed the Aarti with the staff and devotees present.
Delhi police says man who urinated on woman co-passenger on Air India flight will be arrested soon
Delhi police says the person, who allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger on an Air India flight, has been traced and will be nabbed soon.
"The accused is a resident of Mumbai and the investigators have found that his possible location is in some other state. He will be arrested at earliest," says a senior police official.
Delhi police have booked the man on charges of molestation and indecent act.
Air India has banned the passenger for 30 days, who behaved in an inappropriate and undignified manner on the New York-Delhi flight.
Families in U'khand's Joshimath being evacuated after houses develop cracks
Nearly 30 families in the Himalayan town of Joshimath have been evacuated to safer locations with several houses in the area prone to high seismic activity developing cracks, according to officials.
Located at a height of 6,000 feet in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, the town, on the route to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, falls in high-risk seismic 'Zone-V'.
So far, 561 houses in different areas of the town have developed cracks, including 153 in Ravigram, 127 in Gandhinagar, 71 in Manoharbagh, 52 in Singhdhar, 50 in Parsari, 29 in Upper Bazar, 27 in Suneel, 28 in Marwadi and 24 in Lower Bazar, District Disaster Management Officer NK Joshi said.
Satya Nadella meets Prime Minister Modi, thanks him for 'insightful meeting'
Foreign varsities setting up campuses in India can only offer full-time programmes in physical mode: UGC
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First Published: Jan 05 2023 | 9:18 AM IST
