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As the whole country continues to celebrate Chandrayaan-3's success, a Durga puja committee in Kolkata has decided to design its pandal modelled on lander Vikram which touched down on the lunar south pole on August 23. Another Puja committee will theme its pandal on the evils of ragging with the message of zero tolerance to such bullying. Pallir Jubak Brinda Club at Sitaram Ghosh Street in north Kolkata has started work on a jumbo-size Vikram replica which will serve as its pandal. "Come Pujas and visitors will see Maa Durga sitting in the lander model which will be perched on the ground resembling the lunar surface," a puja committee spokesperson said on Sunday. He said the organisers will get the puja inaugurated by the father of an ISRO scientist associated with the moon mission. India scripted history on August 23 when ISRO's ambitious third moon mission Chandrayaan-3's lander module touched down on the lunar surface making it only the fourth country to a...

भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) ने शनिवार को कहा कि चंद्रयान-3 मिशन के तीन में से दो उद्देश्य हासिल कर लिए गए हैं, जबकि तीसरे उद्देश्य के तहत वैज्ञानिक प्रयोग जारी हैं. इसने कहा कि चंद्रयान-3 मिशन के सभी पेलोड सामान्य रूप से काम कर रहे हैं. इसरो ने एक्स (पूर्व में ट्विटर) पर एक पोस्ट में कहा, ‘‘चंद्रयान-3 मिशन: मिशन के तीन उद्देश्यों में से, चंद्रमा की सतह पर सुरक्षित और सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग का प्रदर्शन पूरा हो गया है. चंद्रमा पर रोवर के घूमने का लक्ष्य हासिल कर लिया गया है. तीसरे उद्देश्य के तहत वैज्ञानिक प्रयोग जारी हैं. सभी पेलोड सामान्य रूप से कार्य कर रहे हैं.'' प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने शनिवार को घोषणा की है कि चंद्रयान-3 की ‘सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग' की तारीख 23 अगस्त के दिन को अब राष्ट्रीय अंतरिक्ष दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाएगा और जिस जगह पर इस यान का लैंडर ‘विक्रम' उतरा, उस जगह को अब ‘शिवशक्ति' प्वाइंट के रूप में जाना जाएगा. उन्होंने यह घोषणा भी की कि 2019 में चंद्रयान-2 ने जिस जगह पर अपने पदचिह्न छोड़े थे, चंद्रमा की उस जगह को अब ‘तिरंगा' प्वाइंट के रूप में ज...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will expand his cabinet on Saturday morning with the induction of three to four ministers, the move coming just months ahead of Assembly polls at the end of the year. The swearing-in ceremony will take place at 8:45am, a Raj Bhavan official told PTI late Friday night. The names of ex-ministers Rajendra Shukla, a Brahmin leader and MLA from Rewa in the Vindh region, and Gaurishankar Bisen, legislator from Balaghat in the Mahakoshal region and chairman of the MP Backward Class Commission, have almost been finalised for induction in the cabinet, a BJP leader said. Mr Shukla and Mr Bisen have reached Bhopal. Deliberations are on between Shivraj Singh Chouhan and senior party functionaries on the names of Rahul Singh Lodhi and Jalam Singh, both from the Other Backward Classes that form 45 per cent of the state's population, he said. The name of former state minister Lalsingh Arya, who is the president of the BJP SC Morcha, is also...

हिमाचल प्रदेश में भूस्खलन (लैंडस्लाइड) से पीड़ित लोग इस बुरे अनुभव को कभी न भूलने वाला बुरा सपना करार दे रहे हैं. भूस्खलन से प्रभावित प्रोमिला ने कहा, ‘‘इस बुरे वक्त से गुजरने से बेहतर मौत होगी, क्योंकि जीवन में उम्मीद की कोई किरण नजर नहीं आ रही है.'' प्रोमिला यहां भूस्खलन का शिकार हुई एक इमारत में रहती थीं, जहां उनका एक कमरा ढह जाने से उन्होंने अपना सब कुछ खो दिया. 23 अगस्त की सुबह हुए भूस्खलन से एक इमारत आंशिक रूप से क्षतिग्रस्त हो गई, जिसमें प्रोमिला अपनी बीमार मां के साथ रहती थीं. यह इमारत इंदिरा गांधी मेडिकल कॉलेज अस्पताल (आईजीएमसीएच) के नजदीक है. शुक्रवार को पीटीआई-भाषा से अपना दर्द बयां करते हुए उन्होंने कहा, ‘‘मैं अपनी 75 वर्षीय मां के साथ रहती हूं. वो कैंसर से पीड़ित हैं. 2016 से उनका इलाज जारी है. मैं राम नगर के बाजार में एक दुकान में नौकरी करती थी, जहां पिछले सप्ताह मुझे हटा दिया गया, क्योंकि मंदी के कारण ग्राहक नहीं थे.'' प्रोमिला कहती हैं, ‘‘मैं बृहस्पतिवार की रात आईजीएमसीएच में सोई क्योंकि मेरे पास जाने के लिए कोई जगह नहीं थी.''प्रोमिला के भाई-ब...

Pestering a son-in-law to abandon his parents and start living with his in-laws as 'ghar jamai' amounts to cruelty, the Delhi High Court has held while granting a divorce decree in favour of a man. A bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Neena Bansal Krishna set aside an order of a family court, which had dismissed the husband's divorce petition, and granted divorce to the couple on the ground of cruelty and desertion by the wife. The man said in his plea that he got married in May 2001 and, within a few months of the marriage, his wife left her matrimonial home and went back to her parents in Delhi during pregnancy. He said he made sincere efforts to convince her to return to the matrimonial home but she refused, while she and her family members insisted that he shift from Gujarat to Delhi and stay in their house as 'ghar jamai' (resident son-in-law), a proposal to which he did not agree as he had aged parents to take care of. The woman, however, claimed she ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against Supertech chairman RK Arora in connection with a money laundering case in Delhi's Patiala House Court. The chargesheet filed on Thursday was filed before Special Judge Devender Kumar Jangala, stating that there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Arora for laundering money. The court fixed August 28, 2023, for arguments on the cognisance point of the chargesheet. Arora was arrested on June 27 under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The Chargesheet has been filed by ED's counsels, Naveen Kumar Matta and Mohd Faizan Khan. Earlier, while sending Arora to ED remand, the Court said that "the power to seek remand is essentially a part of the power of arrest and to conduct investigation in respect to the commission of the alleged offence of money laundering, and this power has necessarily to be inferred with the help of the above Section as Se...

The Delhi High Court has directed the parents and maternal uncle of a 22-year-old lesbian woman to undergo counselling in order to prepare themselves to accept her "as per her wishes". The court's order came on a habeas corpus petition by the woman's friend who claimed that she was "missing". After interacting with the parties involved, a bench headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait directed the police to take the woman to a shelter home and make necessary arrangements for her boarding and lodging there. While asking the director of the shelter home to provide "counselling session" to the woman, the court observed that her family members should also be counselled on alternate days. The bench, also comprising Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, further directed the "parents and all other concerned" to "not to extend any kind of threat or undue pressure upon" their daughter and the petitioner. "It is further directed that parents...