New Delhi, Sep 7 India has done away with additional duties on some American products like chickpeas, lentils, and apples, as US President Joe Biden is set to arrive on a three-day visit to India. These additional duties were imposed in 2019 in response to America’s decision to increase tariffs on certain steel and aluminium […]
According to Reuters, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced that US President Joe Biden is planning to travel to India from September 7th to 10th in order to participate in a summit of the Group of 20 nations. Sullivan mentioned during a briefing that Biden intends to engage in several one-on-one discussions during […]
New Delhi, Aug 25 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is likely to be announced soon. Addressing the B20 summit, the Finance Minister said that India is continuously in touch with various nations and even the European FTA (EFTA) is in the pipeline. EFTA includes Liechtenstein, Norway, […]
New Delhi, Aug 25 Within hours of his returning from Greece, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will visit the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru. He will reach the ISRO campus at around 7:15 a.m, immediately after returning from his visit to South Africa and Greece, official sources said. Modi will […]
Chennai, Aug 23 India’s moon rover has come out of the moon lander and is on the latter’s ramp, said a top official of INSPACe. “First photo of rover coming out of the lander on the ramp,” Pawan K Goenka, Chairman, INSPACe, the regulator for private players in the space sector, tweeted with the image. […]
Washington, Aug 23 (IANS) The United States, which had helped in India’s Chandrayan-3 mission and closely tracked its progress, joined the world in hailing the historic soft-landing of the Indian spacecraft on the moon’s South Pole surface on Wednesday. “Congratulations to @ISRO and the people of India for Chandrayaan-3’s historic landing on the South Pole of […]
New Delhi, Aug 24 It’s not bravado or pat on the back by any political leader. Experts around the world are now saying the obvious — India has joined the global space race. “India becomes the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s South Pole, a rugged region where deep craters lie in […]
Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-up to the Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2 missions. Chandrayaan-1 was launched in 2008 and was India’s first lunar mission. It orbited the moon for 10 months and made a number of important discoveries, including the presence of water ice on the moon. Chandrayaan-2 was launched in 2019 and was India’s first attempt to […]
India will be celebrating its 77th Independence Day on August 15. Every year, it is marked by hoisting the national flag and singing the national anthem. On this day, people organise cultural programs and seminars to pay tribute to the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for India’s freedom. Schools, colleges and other educational institutions […]
New Delhi, Aug 10 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said in Lok Sabha that the violence which has taken place in Manipur, especially against women, is unpardonable and those responsible will soon be punished. In his more than two-hour long reply to the no-confidence motion, the Prime Minister gave an assurance that peace will […]