Dalit revolution necessary to end backwardness: Chennithala

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 15 (UNI) The time has come for a Dalit revolution across the country for a comprehensive development of the Dalit and Adivasi communities, senior Congress leader and AICC Working Committee Member Ramesh Chennithala has said. Dalit communities are being further impoverished by governments by subverting various norms of reservation guaranteed for them in…

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Iraq, Syria discuss ties, anti-terrorism cooperation

Baghdad, Mar 15 (UNI) Iraqi leaders met with Syria’s chief of foreign affairs authority, Asaad al-Shaibani, here on Friday to discuss bilateral relations and anti-terrorism cooperation. During a meeting with visiting al-Shaibani, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani reaffirmed Iraq’s firm and consistent stance in respecting the will of the Syrian people, stressing the need…

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Karnataka Dy Speaker injured in road accident

Chitradurga, Mar 15 (UNI) Karnataka’s Deputy Speaker, Rudrappa Lamani, was injured in a road accident near Hiriyur in Chitradurga district on Friday night. Lamani, who was en route to his native village in Haveri district, was involved in the accident near Javanagondanahalli in Hiriyur taluk. According to police, the incident occurred when Lamani alighted from…

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FAA issues permanent restrictions on helicopter traffic near Washington airport

Washington, Mar 15 (UNI) The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday it is imposing permanent restrictions on non-essential helicopter operations around the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and eliminating helicopter and passenger jet mixed traffic, following recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The FAA’s latest rules came over a month after…

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Chandrayaan-2 unveils effect of Earth’s geomagnetic tail on the Lunar ionosphere plasma

Chennai, Mar 15 (UNI) In a major finding, scientists from Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, analysing radio signals from India’s Chandrayaan-2 (CH-2) Orbiter – which is in good health and providing data – have revealed that the Moon’s ionosphere exhibits unexpectedly high electron densities when it enters the Earth’s geomagnetic tail. This finding sheds new light…

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Chandrayaan-3 bags credit for first-ever in-situ measurement of Lunar Surface, revealing insights about harbouring water-ice on Moon

Chennai, Mar 15 (UNI) India’s Chandrayaan-3 ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram Lander has taken the credit for the first-ever in-situ measurement of the temperature of the Moon’s surface, down to a depth of ten centimetres, at the Southern higher latitude. So far, the temperature measurements from the subsurface of the Moon by the Apollo 15 and…

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