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Bengaluru, Feb 15: India plans to have a sustained human presence in space and is coming out with a policy framework and a long-term roadmap. The Department of Space (DoS) has envisaged a national effort to meet the goal of successful demonstration of human spaceflight capability and to achieve the vision of sustained human presence in space. India's maiden human spaceflight module 'Gaganyaan'

New Delhi, Feb 15: The Supreme Court Monday granted 5-day bail to journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested on his way to Hathras where a young Dalit woman had died after being allegedly gang-raped, to visit his ailing mother for five days. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, however, said that during his visit he shall not give any interview to the media, including social media. The bench, also

New Delhi, Feb 12: Non-bailable warrants have been issued against two more activists for allegedly sharing the "toolkit" related to the farmers' protest on social media, the Delhi Police said on Monday, two days after it arrested climate activist Disha Ravi in connection with the case. The 21-year-old activist was arrested on Saturday from Bengaluru and sent to five days police remand on Sunday by

Children’s Cancers are rare compared to those in adults. Worldwide, around 3 lakh children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer every year and 80% of them live in developing countries. As infectious diseases are becoming more controlled in children, cancer is emerging to be the leading cause of death after accidental deaths. The good news is that most of the children’s cancers are now curable

New Delhi, Feb 15: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and WhatsApp over the privacy policy update of the messaging platform. The top court said that the matter will be heard after 4 weeks. The Supreme Court was hearing an application seeking directions to WhatsApp that it shall not apply lower privacy standards for Indian users and shall apply the same privacy policy and terms

Lucknow, Feb 14: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly thrown off a terrace after a failed rape attempt by two of her neighbours, police said on Sunday. The two pushed the girl down when they saw her father enter the house, alleged the family. The girl has suffered several fractures and internal injuries, said her father while lodging a complaint with the police in Jahanabad area. Harish Vardhan Singh

Riyadh, Feb 14: A Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen said it destroyed two explosives fired into Saudi Arabia on Sunday afternoon in an attack by the Iran-aligned Houthis. A spokesman for the coalition said the drones had been fired by the Houthis towards civilian targets in Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, close to Abha. A military spokesman for the Houthi group said

New Delhi, Feb 14: A Delhi court on Sunday sent a 21-year-old climate activist to five days police custody in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a "toolkit" on social media related to the farmers' protest. Disha Ravi, arrested by a Cyber Cell team of the Delhi Police from Bengaluru on Saturday, was produced before a court here and police sought her seven days' custody. The police

Lucknow, Feb 14: Desperately looking to revive itself in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, the Congress plans to capitalise on the farmer agitation and pursue 'soft Hindutva' in the state, where assembly election is barely a year away. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was also the in-charge of the state, made the party's revival strategy quite clear by her temple

New Delhi, Feb 14: Side-effects after COVID-19 vaccination — 'reactogenicity' in medical linguistic — was reported in 66% of the healthcare workers, which mostly subside within a day of their onset, said a survey conducted by noted public health experts for the Kochi chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA). A total of 5,396 healthcare professionals across India, who had received COVID-19