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Launched in September, the solar observation mission will undertake a comprehensive study of the sun. India’s solar observation mission has entered the sun’s orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success for the space exploration ambitions of the world’s most populous nation. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Aditya-L1 mission was …

Forty-nine Indian opposition lawmakers, who have been demanding a debate on a December 13 parliament security breach, were suspended from the legislature on Tuesday for allegedly disrupting House proceedings. Tuesday’s government action came a day after 78 opposition members of parliament were suspended from the remainder of the crucial Winter …

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal unit has arrested a 60-year-old Nigerian national, Paul Ikenna alias Bossman, and two Indians in an operation targeting inter-state and international narcotics trafficking networks.    The agency in a statement on Saturday, October 14, 2023, said Ikenna’s landlord and a bank employee, were …

Host India succeeded in getting together a joint Group of 20 declaration, but it hides fractious relationships and bitter divisions among G20 member states. New Delhi, India – Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have succeeded in getting together a joint G20 declaration, but the façade of “one earth, one family, …

India’s Tata Group will build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the United Kingdom to supply its Jaguar Land Rover factories, delivering a major boost for a car industry in need of domestic battery production to help secure its future. Under the plan, announced by the British government and …

The train crash that killed at least 288 people, and injured hundreds more, in India is remarkable even in a country with a long history of train deaths. In 2021 alone, there were more than 16,000 train-related deaths in India, according to the country’s National Crime Records Bureau, a figure …

CNN  —  Tigers once roamed across Asia, their numbers as high as 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, before the species plummeted to the brink of extinction. By 2006, their population in India – home to the majority of the world’s remaining wild tigers – hit a record …

New Delhi CNN  —  When dozens of security personnel crowded onto the runway of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport on Thursday, it was not to capture a terrorist or fleeing criminal mastermind, or even to apprehend an unruly passenger. It was to arrest an opposition politician who had allegedly “disturbed …

Air India faced criticism on Thursday, January 5 from the country’s aviation regulator for its handling of an unruly passenger on a flight from New York in November, and also acknowledged that a second similar incident occurred last month on a flight from Paris to New Delhi. Air India had …

Children working and travelling on India’s vast rail network need to be educated about the perils of trafficking. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (karnataka, india) Friday, December 02, 2022 Inter Press Service Karnataka, India, Dec 02 (IPS) – Deeepti Rani (13) lives with her mother in a dilapidated …