New Delhi Amid high drama and allegation of “intimidation” by the Opposition, the Rajya Sabha today passed a controversial Bill to amend the RTI Act after negating an Opposition-sponsored motion to send it to a House committee for greater scrutiny. With this, Parliament has approved the amendment, which empowers theRead More

Bengaluru India’s ambitious second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 has successfully raised its orbit around the Earth for the second time early on Friday, taking the spacecraft one step closer to the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. The 15-minute Earth-bound manoeuvre was carried out at 1.08 am using theRead More

Bengaluru Karnataka may have a spell of President’s rule till its Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar decides on the resignations of the 15 rebel legislators of the Congress and JD-S, as the BJP is not in a hurry to stake claim to form a government amid uncertainty, a party officialRead More

New Delhi Taking note of alarming rise in child rape cases, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered setting up of centrally-funded special courts under POCSO Act in each district across the country in 60 days to exclusively try those accused of sexual assault on children. A Bench headed by ChiefRead More

New Delhi Happenings at the White House on Monday evening when US President Donald Trump and Pakistan PM  Imran Khan addressed the media should make the South Block sit up, despite External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s categorical denial in Parliament today that PM Narendra Modi had sought third-party intervention onRead More

Bengaluru State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) delivered a Chetak helicopter to the Indian Navy, with the latest communication and navigation systems, said the defence behemoth on Wednesday. “The documents of the chopper were handed over to Commodore Vikram Menon by our helicopter division general manager S. Anbuvelan at our facility,”Read More

Chennai India’s second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 put into earth orbit on July 22, is scheduled to reach the Moon by August 20, the Indian space agency said on Wednesday. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that the first-earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre for Chandryaan-2 was successfully performed on WednesdayRead More

Islamabad Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia and lodged a formal protest over alleged ceasefire violations by Indian forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in its administered Kashmir which, it said, killed two civilians and injured four others. Director-General at the South Asian Desk ofRead More

Beijing The Chinese military on Wednesday said it is striving to promote security and stability along the India-China border and has created “favourable conditions” to resolve the Doklam standoff in 2017. A white paper titled ‘China’s National Defence in the New Era’, released by the Chinese Defence Ministry here touchedRead More

Sriharikota (AP) India today successfully launched its second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 from its most powerful rocket with a plan to land the rover on September 7 in the unexplored lunar south pole, exactly a week after the liftoff was aborted due to a technical snag. Carrying a “billion dreams” inRead More