Author: DA Correspondent

Parents reunite with missing son after tracing him on TV show

2:01 pm September 18, 2019

Kolkata: A television programme has helped reunite a mentally-challenged teenager with his parents over two-and-a-half years after he had gone missing. Family members of the 13-year-old boy were watching the news bulletin on ‘Doordarshan Kolkata’, when they spotted their ward among the inmates of a home for mentally ill persons, in Nadia district of West […]

‘One of world’s oldest bird species discovered’

1:16 pm September 18, 2019

Melbourne: Scientists have discovered fossils of one of the world’s oldest bird species in New Zealand that lived about 62 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died. Bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithids), an ancient family of huge seafaring birds, were thought to have evolved in the Northern Hemisphere — but that theory has been upended by […]

Ayodhya: SC says parties can go for mediation if they want to

12:59 pm September 18, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said parties to the Ram-Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid land dispute case can amicably resolve the matter through mediation if they want to and that it wants day-to-day hearings in the case to be concluded by October 18. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it […]

United Left wins all 4 central panel posts in JNU Students’ Union polls

8:56 pm September 17, 2019

New Delhi: The united front of Left student groups AISA, SFI, AISF, DSF won all the four central panel posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) polls, the election committee announced on Tuesday. The grouping’s presidential candidate Aishe Ghosh defeated Manish Jangid of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) by bagging 2,313 votes. […]

Four astronauts identified for ISRO's Gaganyaan mission: Chief K Sivan

ISRO, DRDO sign MoUs for Gaganyaan mission

8:06 pm September 17, 2019

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday inked MoUs with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for development of human centric systems for the Gaganyaan project, the Defence Ministry said. Some of the critical technologies to be provided by the DRDO to ISRO include space food, space crew health monitoring and […]