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The Indian and Singapore navies will conduct joint exercises next month to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the maritime bilateral exercise between the two countries. Our excellent defence relationship is a reflection of deep mutual trust and a shared vision for the region, Indian High Commissioner Jawed Ashraf said in Singapore last night. This year, in just a few weeks ...

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible. Roughly the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible. Roughly the size of a small car, the spacecraft lifted off at 3:31 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Pakistan’s Prime Minister-in-waiting Imran Khan has said his government will build a more “balanced and trustworthy” relationship with the US, asserting that the trust deficit between the two countries has resulted in many ups and downs in the bilateral ties. The relations between Pakistan and the US nosedived this January after President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of ...

The UN’s environment chief has lauded India’ efforts to meet its energy needs through solar and curb use of plastics but said that countries still need to do lot more to protect the planet. UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Erik Solheim said 2017 is “the first year in human history” when more electricity was generated globally from the sun, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh met the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK)  YK Sinha in London on Tuesday. He invited the industrialists for the “Destination Uttarakhand-Investors Summit 2018”, scheduled to be held in October. During interaction with the industrialists, he informed about the favorable environment available for capital investment in Uttarakhand. He informed that ...

Around 200 Indians on their way back home after the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage in Tibet are stranded in Nepal’s Humla district due to bad weather, Indian Embassy said here today. There were around 150 people stranded in Simikot and 50 in Hilsa, near Nepal-Tibet border. Due to bad weather, it was impossible to immediately airlift the pilgrims from Hilsa and Simikot ...

Apple became the first U.S. company breach the magical $1 trillion mark in market value on Thursday, leading a rebound in technology stocks that helped Wall Street recover losses and took Nasdaq in the green. The company reached the record market valuation when Apple’s stock price briefly hit $207.05 in midday trading, before shares once again retreated. Other tech giants ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A UK court on Tuesday asked the Indian authorities to submit within three weeks a video of a cell at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai where they plan to keep Vijay Mallya post-extradition, as it set September 12 for closing arguments in his high-profile extradition trial. Mallya, wanted in India on fraud charges, appeared before the ...

US President Donald Trump said the American media was “dying to see” him make mistake, as he continued his public criticism of the press a day after the White House barred a reporter from attending one of his events. “Look at all those cameras. All those cameras, every stop I get all these cameras. This never happened to (former president ...