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Nainital: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar fainted Wednesday while attending the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Kumaon University here. As the Vice President stepped down from the dais after delivering his speech, he approached his former parliamentary colleague, Mahendra Singh Pal, who was seated in the...

New Delhi:  “Kya kamaal ki ride thi (what an amazing ride),” India's astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla remarked as SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft entered orbit around the Earth within 10 minutes of launch from NASA's spaceport in Florida. Shukla, who became the second Indian to travel to space,...

New Delhi: From 2026, Class-X students will be able to take CBSE board exams twice in an academic session but it will be mandatory for them to appear for the first phase in February, officials said Wednesday. The second phase scheduled in May will be...

Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is on his way to the International Space Station, becoming the second Indian national to travel to space after Rakesh Sharma. According to media reports, Shukla will not receive an hourly salary or any separate honorarium for the...

Bengaluru: An incident has been reported from Bengaluru Wednesday where a nursing student was allegedly raped by the owner of a paying guest (PG) accommodation after she confessed to a theft, officials said. The police have arrested the accused. The arrested person has been identified...

New Delhi: Sitting on the verge of making history, Indian Air Force Group Caption and ISRO astronaut, Shubhanshu Shukla, is carrying carrot halwa, moong dal halwa and mango nectar with him on way to the International Space Station (ISS) to satiate his cravings for home-made...

New Delhi/Rayagada: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that the family of a Scheduled Tribe woman was boycotted socially by the villagers after she married a Scheduled Caste man in Odisha. Reportedly, the villagers demanded a purification...

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force Wednesday successfully evacuated 224 more Indian nationals from Israel, taking the total number of citizens brought back safely to 818, under Operation Sindhu. Minister of State Shobha Karandlaje greeted the Indian nationals upon their arrival in New Delhi. Taking...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Wednesday said the whole nation is excited and proud of Indian astronaut Subhanshu Shukla's journey to the stars, as part of the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station. The wide-ranging experiments to be performed by the crew will lead...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday welcomed the successful launch of Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station and said astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla carries with him the wishes, hopes and aspirations of 140 crore Indians. "We welcome the successful launch of the Space Mission...