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New Delhi, Sept 10: Hitting out at the Modi government, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the economy is falling into a "deep abyss" of recession and asked when will the dispensation "open its eyes". Her remarks come amid the opposition's criticism of the government after growth in the last quarter slipped to 5 per cent. "The economy is falling into a deep abyss of recession

Pune, Sept 10: Space scientists in the US succeeded in their 39th attempt to send their craft to the moon because they had launched it on "Ekadashi", former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist Sambhaji Bhide said on Monday, days after India's lander Vikram of the Chandrayaan 2 mission lost contact while it was nearing the moon's surface. Bhide, who heads the Shiv Pratishthan Hindustan in

Washington, Sept 10: The relationship between India and Pakistan is "less heated" now than what was two weeks ago, United States President Donald Trump has said, reiterating his offer to help the two South-Asian neighbours only if both of them want. The comments by Trump came two weeks after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France on August 26.

Azamgarh, Sept 9: The Azamgarh District Magistrate on Monday ordered a probe into the arrest of a journalist allegedly after he took photographs of some children mopping the floor in their school. The journalist was arrested on false charges of extortion and obstructing public servants from discharging their duty, alleged a fellow journalist Sudhir Singh, who, along with other journalists met

Sept 9: Greater Noida: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a global boycott of single-use plastic at a United Nations event here on Monday. "I think the time has come for the world to say Good Bye to single use plastic", said Modi as the hall resonated with claps. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing the 14th Conference of Parties (COP14) to United Nations Convention to Combat

Bengaluru, Sept 9: Not losing hope, the Indian Space Research Organisation continued to make all-out efforts to establish a link with Chandrayaan-2's 'Vikram' lander, now lying on the lunar surface after a hard-landing. Vikram, with rover 'Pragyan' housed inside it, hit the lunar surface after communication with the ground-stations was lost during its final descent, just 2.1 km above the lunar

Sept 9: State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday reduced the MCLR and interest rates on time deposits across all maturities. The state-run lender, which is the country's largest bank, announced a reduction in the MCLR by 10 basis points (BPS), effective September 10. SBI also cut retail term-deposit rates by 20-25 bps and cut bulk term-deposit rates by 10-20 bps, according to ET Now.

Malkangiri/Bhubaneswar, Sept 9: Her dream to touch the sky has catapulted a tribal woman from Odisha's Maoist-hit Malkangiri district to become the first female pilot from the backward region. Twenty-three-year-old Anupriya Lakra's dream of becoming a pilot has become a reality seven years after she quit engineering studies midway and joined an aviation academy here in 2012. The woman from the

New Delhi, Sept 9: Former DRDO scientist A Sivathanu Pillai has claimed India will be able to set up a base on the surface of moon in ten years for extraction of the Helium-3. Speaking to the "War and Peace" programme on DD News, Pillai said, "In space programme, we are one of the four countries that has complete mastery over technology." Pillai, who had spearheaded the Brahmos Missiles programme

New Delhi, Sept 8: The Congress on Sunday launched an all out attack on the Modi government alleging that there had been "no development" in the first 100 days of its second term, with Rahul Gandhi saying there was a "glaring lack" of leadership, direction and plans where it is needed the most -- to turnaround a "ravaged economy". Congress' senior spokesperson Kapil Sibal, addressing a press