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POEM-3, successfully achieves all payload objectives. With the likely re-entry of POEM-3 in the next 75 days, the PSLV-C58 XPoSat mission will be leaving zero debris in space," ISRO said in an X post on Saturday.

China on Saturday said that top diplomat Wang Yi and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan held «candid, substantive and fruitful» talks in Thailand's capital Bangkok, where issues including Taiwan were discussed. Beijing and Washington have clashed in recent years on flashpoint issues from technology and trade to human rights, as well as over the self-ruled island and competing claims in the South China Sea.

Bihar, all political parties in the State held meetings on Saturday with party leaders and legislators in Patna after likelihood that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may jump ship to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar said that «it is just a speculation as nothing has been finalised yet. The NCP is an ally of the JDU in the INDIA bloc. »Has it been finalised yet? It is still a speculation," Pawar told in Maharashtra's Mumbai.

ISRO said on Saturday its space platform, POEM-3, has successfully achieved all its payload objectives. POEM-3 (the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module-3) uses the spent PS4 stage of the PSLV-C58 rocket that launched XPoSat on January 1 this year. ISRO said POEM-3 flew with nine payloads from Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Physical Research Laboratory, academia, and space start-ups.

demand for reservation to his community. His meeting was significant because the Maharashtra government on Friday night came out with a draft ordinance regarding the reservation demands of Marathas, and a team of government officials visited him last night at the campsite. During his speech on Friday, Jarange had warned that he and his supporters would enter Mumbai on Saturday for their planned protest at Azad Maidan ground if their demands were not met by Friday night, PTI reported.

Nitish Kumar may revive ties with the NDA has elicited mixed responses from political circles. On Friday, Kumar attended a high tea ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Patna on Republic Day with his deputy Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD remaining conspicuous by his absence. Following is what has been said by leaders across the political spectrum about Kumar's likely switch to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA): * All is well in Bihar's ruling Mahagathbandhan and the media speculations are driven by some agenda.

Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday met Airbus Global CEO Guillaume Faury and discussed collaboration opportunities for manufacturing and designing of aircraft. India is one of the key markets for Airbus, which received orders for more than 700 planes from IndiGo and Air India last year.

Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Friday shared a piece of advice with entrepreneurs seeking to build successful consumer brands saying they must focus on creating products that come embedded with 5-10% more value than promised in their ads. “Brand is a mark of trust,” the veteran entrepreneur said during the annual conference of Venous Association of India in Mysuru.

Maharashtra government, Marathas will march towards Mumbai tomorrow morning," he was quoted by ANI as saying. Protesters demand Kunbi (OBC) status to the Maratha community. On January 16, Jarange had demanded that 54 lakh Marathas should be issued Kunbi caste certificates within two days.

TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan's defence ministry said it detected 23 Chinese air force planes operating around Taiwan and carrying out «joint combat readiness patrols» with Chinese warships on Friday, ahead of high-level China-U.S. talks in Thailand.

Maratha quota leader Manoj Jarange on Friday asserted that he won’t abandon his agitation midway till the community is granted reservation in government jobs and education, while Maharashtra minister Deepak Kesarkar said the activist’s demands have been accepted.

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan on Friday disclosed that he was «in constant touch with the top BJP leadership» but termed as «hypothetical» the question whether Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be acceptable to him as a new NDA partner. Paswan, who had come to the Bihar capital on Thursday evening, spoke to journalists at the airport, saying he has «cancelled» engagements in the state to hold deliberations over the «crucial next few days» in Delhi. «I have been in constant touch with the top BJP leadership.

ties and Taiwan will be topics raised at a meeting between U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bangkok, building on a pledge by the leaders of the world's two largest economies to deepen dialogue. «During the new round of meetings, (Wang) will state China's position on China-U.S. relations, including the Taiwan issue, and exchange views with the U.S. side on international and regional issues of common interest,» a ministry spokesperson told reporters at a regular press conference.

President Joe Biden has returned to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $5 billion in federal money for upgrading the Blatnik Bridge and for dozens of similar infrastructure projects nationwide

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron took part Thursday in a roadshow in the Pink City, where the visitor was presented a replica of Ayodhya's Ram temple and offered masala chai from a teashop before the leaders sat down for bilateral talks. Macron, who is the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations in Delhi on January 26, also visited the hilltop Amber Palace, Jantar Mantar observatory and Hawa Mahal in a carefully curated tour that ended at an iconic palace-turned-hotel. In the evening, the two leaders were driven in an open-top vehicle through a short stretch in the heart of the city, beginning from Jantar Mantar, the 18th century astronomical observatory which is now a Unesco heritage site.

ruling BJP, were “beaten up” and “compelled” to take an oath by radical armed Meitei group, Arambai Tenggol, at Kangla Fort in Imphal. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh stated in X, «The Indian National Congress strongly condemns the brutal physical assault on Manipur PCC President K.

(Reuters) -The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged on Thursday and gave no hint of a possible reduction, reaffirming instead its commitment to fighting inflation.

Sony Group Corp.’s lawyers got a nasty surprise during a routine call from the legal team of Zee Enterprises Entertainment Ltd. Nearly two years into tortuous merger negotiations to create a $10 billion Indian entertainment giant, Zee wanted the Japanese company to agree to a so-called “hold harmless” clause for its Chief Executive Officer, Punit Goenka, just weeks before the Dec. 21 deal deadline. Already wary of Goenka, who had been accused of financial impropriety by India’s markets regulator several months earlier, Sony executives wondered why he requested indemnity. On his part, Goenka was worried that Sony would start a witch hunt against him after the merger was completed and it got what it wanted: access to Zee’s deep library of local entertainment content. The account of this weeks-long stalemate was pieced together by speaking to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as the talks were private.

Congress is getting involved in examining safety at Boeing after a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in midflight

Canada may not be in a recession right now, but it is likely to enter one very soon and that will prompt the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates, economists at Desjardins Group say.

high risk zones in subsidence-hit Joshimath and recommended that the administration should ask the residents in these areas of the town to either take compensation or get relocated. «After a detailed survey, we have identified 14 high risk zones in Joshimath from where land subsidence was reported last year. The houses in Marwari, Sunil, Upper Bazar, Lower Bazar, Singhdhar and Manohar Bagh areas of the town fall into this category.