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French Armed Forces Minister flags off carrier strike group
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 7 (ANI): The carrier strike group (CSG) was flagged off by French Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly from on board aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle off Toulon, ahead of its departure for an operational deployment lasting several months, informed the Frenc
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'Will always smile if I succeeded in bringing smiles on helpless faces'
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 6 (ANI): An emotional Justice AK Sikri during his farewell address said that if he has succeeded in his mission to bring smiles on helpless faces, there will always be a smile in his heart.
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Over 9.23 crore toilets built across India, says Jaitley
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 6 (ANI): Lauding the government’s Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that over 9.23 crore toilets have been constructed under the scheme.
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This Chennai man is cycling to Germany to raise awareness about human traf
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Feb 28 (ANI): With an aim to end human slavery, Naresh Kumar has begun a mission 'Freedom Seat' to cycle over 8500 kilometres from Chennai to Hamburg to raise awareness about human trafficking and child abuse.
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Virgin Galactic sends three humans to space
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Mexico [USA], Feb 26 (ANI): In a first, US-based Virgin Galactic rocketed three people to space in a test flight that is an effort towards the company’s commercial spaceflight mission.
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Israeli Spyder used to shoot down Pakistani drone in Gujarat
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Feb 26 (ANI) A Pakistani drone on a reconnaissance mission was shot down early this morning in Kutch area of Gujarat by the Indian Army using Israeli Spyder air defence missile system, sources said.
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NASA mission could now find more than 1,000 planets
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 26 (ANI): A new research now finds that a NASA telescope will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find as many as 1,400 new planets outside Earth's solar system.
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3 Colombian consular employees leave Venezuela by foot
Updated : 7 years ago IST
San Antonio (Venezuela), Feb 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Three consular employees of the Colombian diplomatic mission along with their families left Venezuela on Sunday, crossing the border by foot, a Sputnik correspondent has reported.
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NASA honours 'Hidden Figures' Katherine Johnson by renaming facility
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 25 (ANI): NASA has renamed its Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia to honour "trailblazer" Katherine Johnson, who successfully calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission in 1961 amongst
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Indian diaspora in Switzerland salute CRPF personnel killed in Pulwama ter
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Zurich [Switzerland], Feb 24 (ANI): Indian diaspora, numbering over 300 along with officials of India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations and several international organisations watched the special, private screening of the movie "URI-The Surgical Strike" organised by Indo-Swiss Center
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Modi washes feet of sanitation workers, takes holy dip at Kumbh
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a holy dip at the 'Sangam' and offered prayers at the ongoing Kumbh at Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, after which he washed feet of sanitation workers and lauded their efforts to ensure a Swacch Bhara
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India to launch first 3 orbit mission with PSLV-C45 on March 21
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): India will launch the PSLV-C45 on March 21 which will put 30 satellites, including one for electronic intelligence, in three different orbits.
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