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Subject to weather conditions, the blastoff is scheduled at 10.24 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, where the countdown for the mission commenced at 8.54 am on Saturday. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Brazil's Amazonia-1 on board with Bhagavad Gita

A picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will remain engraved atop the panel of a co-passenger satellite

28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)

Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel

It's not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas

28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

One plausible reason could be that China itself has told Pakistan to hold off. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | The Pak arithmetic: Strategy over ideology

Why didn't Pakistan take advantage of the Sino-Indian stand-off?

28 Feb 2021 4:17 AM IST

Modern South India A History from the 17th Century to Our Times By RAJMOHAN GANDHI (Photo: Twitter @AlephBookCo)

Mohan Ramaswamy | The ocean, not Himalayas: Presenting the South India...

It was most fascinating to pore over the book on modern South India which is a history from the 17th century right up to...

28 Feb 2021 4:11 AM IST

Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here By Aakar Patel. (Photo: Facebook @westlandbooks )

Ranjona Banerji | How atavism became ideology and Hindutva ambushed...

'Our Hindu Rashtra' is more a presentation of our recent history from the perspective of democracy

28 Feb 2021 4:09 AM IST

Pinderpal Singh Madan, of the Sri Guru Singh Sabha, distributes packets of food (Photo: By arrangement)

Lekha Shankar | Thailand's Indians give back

The Thai-Indian community came out in full strength, to make a mega-contribution to their adopted homeland, during the...

28 Feb 2021 4:02 AM IST

Chennithala alleged Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was lying about everything related to the recent controversy over the MoU. (Photo: Twitter @chennithala)

UDF to take out coastal rally from March 1 to 'save fisherfolk'

Shibu Baby John will lead the rally from Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram and T N Prathapan MP will lead the rally from...

28 Feb 2021 1:16 AM IST

Doubtful voters are those persons who are identified during electoral roll revision as D-voters, cases of which are pending with the Foreigners Tribunals or declared as foreigners by the Tribunal. (Photo: AFP)

1.08 lakh 'D' voters will not be allowed to vote in Assam polls: CEO

The figure of D-voters has decreased in comparison to the number of 1.13 lakh provided in the state assembly last year

28 Feb 2021 1:04 AM IST

Tikait, the national spokesperson of the BKU and a prominent face of the farmers protest, will begin the tour from March 1. (Photo: PTI)

Rakesh Tikait to tour 5 states in March to drum up support for...

Farmers' meetings will be held in Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana

28 Feb 2021 12:47 AM IST

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (L) during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama and a file photo taken on April 12, 2018 of Saudi Arabias crown prince Mohammed bin Salman poses at La Moncloa palace in Madrid. (AFP)

US says Saudi crown prince MBS approved Jamal Khashoggi murder but...

Blinken announces the 'Khashoggi Act' that will ban foreigners' entry into US who threaten dissidents or harass...

27 Feb 2021 11:22 AM IST

This year elections are due in two states in the east -- West Bengal and Assam -- and three states/UTs in the south -- Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Its important to note that all these are now governed by different parties and no party has a government in more than one state. (Representative Photo)

All set for Assembly elections in 4 states, Union territory

The CEC said webcasting will be done at polling stations in critical and vulnerable areas

27 Feb 2021 9:21 AM IST

The report also does well to emphasise that higher trade-to-GDP ratios are a signal of competitiveness and an entry point for coupling the Indian economy with the international economy, including through global value chains.

Indian economy in +ve zone, grows 0.4%

The size of the economy had shrunken in the April-June and July-September quarters, pulling down the country into a...

27 Feb 2021 4:54 AM IST