Days after the Congress promised a guaranteed income of Rs 12,000 a month, former footballer Bhaichung Bhutia’s Hamro Sikkim Party (HSP) said it would ensure a basic income of Rs 1,500 per person a month in the state. This comes ahead of the April 11 polls to both Sikkim’s 32-member
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made a big announcement that India has become the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to acquire the capability of space warfare. Indian scientists successfully conducted Mission Shakti shooting down a live satellite target in the low earth orbit (LEO). Low earth
With the melting of glaciers and snow due to high temperatures, Mount Everest expedition operators are finding more and more bodies of climbers on and around the world’s highest peak. More than 200 mountaineers have died on the peak since 1922, when the first climbers’ deaths on the Everest were
Facebook is taking steps to reduce the spread of false information on its platforms ahead of India’s general election, company officials said Monday. Facebook listed a variety of measures it is taking, from blocking fake accounts to employing third-party fact-checking organizations, through the campaign and voting, with polling scheduled to
India has shot down a low earth orbit satellite with an indigenously-developed ASAT missile, a giant leap for the country’s space capability that propelled India into an elite club comprising US, Russia and China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a rare televised address to the nation on Wednesday. “Some