The partial solar eclipse is being observed in several parts of the country with Srinagar witnessing the maximum obscuration of the solar disc at 55 per cent.
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared America's support to Ban Ki Moon's bid for a second term as the United Nations general secretary for the critical role the world body played under his leadership in responding to global challenges. The US support comes a day after the South Korean announced his willingness for a second term."President Obama welcomes United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's announcement that he will run for a second term," US said.
Assuming we still have a Modi-led majority government after May 2024, there is no guarantee that reforms will move at anything more than a snail's pace, though we must be thankful even for that, notes R Jagannathan.
In a message on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged governments that have not yet done so to ratify or accede to the convention without delay.
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In her first address to a joint sitting of the two Houses in the new Parliament building in which she touched on varied issues ranging from insurgency to inflation, Murmu said a country can progress at a fast pace only when it defeats the challenges of the past and puts maximum energy into building the future.
The M3 project is aimed at performing detailed mineral mapping on the surface of moon.
Speaking at a function in the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that he had learnt 'diplomacy' in India, which was his first posting nearly four decades ago
At the height of the space race, the US considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.
Director of Indian Space Research Organisation's Space Applications Centre based in Ahmedabad, Dr Ranganath R Navalgund said the terrain mapping camera, an Indian instrument on the lunar mission, has found "new types of rocks" and hollow tunnels.
The United Nations has an observer team in Kashmir, which keeps the world body informed of the developments there, he added.
The mission will also review all technical aspects of the electoral process for an assembly to decide on the constitutional future of the country.
The best they say about him is that he is a man who attends to details and carries out instructions from the Security Council and the General Assembly, 'a carpenter rather than an architect.'
In his first visit to India after taking over office, Ban Ki-Moon recalled India's long and glorious association with India and said, 'throughout these many decades, India has given its best to the United Nations and to the world -- its best economists, doctors and engineers, its most promising ideas.'
"We have short listed scientific experiments from researchers in five countries the US, UK, Sweden, Bulgaria and Germany."
two US scientific instruments will be on board India's mission to the Moon 'Chandrayaan-1'.
Addressing a press conference shortly after being sworn in as the eighth secretary general on Thursday, he also did not agree with his predecessor Kofi Annan's criticism of the US for its "go-it-alone" diplomacy at the cost of multilateralism.
'But hey, even lone wolves howl at the moon every now and then, right?'
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Saturday held talks with business leaders in the financial capital on a host of issues relating to furtherance of initiatives under the Millenium Development Goals programme.
Scientists have detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the moon's North Pole using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-I. NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 2 to 15 km in diameter.
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A Supermoon occurs when a full moon is within 90 per cent of perigee or the point where the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit.
In Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir, however, Eid will be celebrated on Wednesday.
In September 2000, world leaders had agreed to tackle eight developmental challenges including poverty, employment, education and health.
There is an atmosphere of festivity and enthusiasm, and the country has been filled with renewed self-confidence, he said, asking parliamentarians to give maximum time to the short session.
Amazing new images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the planet give a spectacular view of Saturn's rings and its moons. The Cassini space probe, for the first time in two years, has been able to get a good view of the planet's famous rings owing to a recent change in the spacecraft's angle of orbit. It took seven years for Cassini to travel the two billion miles to Saturn. Here's a look at some stunning pictures of Saturn.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon emphasised India's growing role in the 21st century and how the world will benefit from its emergence on the global stage during his trip to the country late last month.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a special brand of 'global leadership' and a new 'multilateralism' to deal with complex challenges like poverty, illiteracy and terrorism, facing the world today. In an address at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, Ban said: "Threats spill across borders. Just as the world's people have become more interdependent, so have the issues. No nation can deal with them alone."
This will be a sky show reserved primarily for those living in the Eastern Hemisphere. North America will miss out on the entire show, as the Moon will be below the horizon during midday and afternoon.
The X Prize Foundation and Google Inc have announced a robotic race to the moon. The rules of the game are that participants must land a rover on the lunar surface, run it for at least 500 metres and send video images and data back to earth.
Two months after India's maiden Chandrayaan-I mission discovered traces of water on moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency on Saturday said it has found 'significant amounts' of water ice on its surface, a finding that could trigger a hunt for life in outer space and boost hopes for a permanent lunar base.
Seven months after its launch, India's maiden mission to the moon Chandrayaan has reportedly developed a technical snag. Reports suggest that the star sensor on board Chandrayaan has malfunctioned, thus partially crippling the spacecraft.Due to the malfunctioning of the critical component, it has now become difficult to steer Chandrayaan. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation, which had successfully launched the moon mission, have patched two sensors.
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China's first moon rover has begun sending back photos, a day after the communist giant carried out the world's first lunar soft landing in nearly 40 years, making a huge advance in its ambitious space programme.
Scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water as vast as the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa, suggesting a potential new habitat for life.
The two US payloads are -Mini Synthetic Aperture Radar and Moon Mineralogy Mapper.
The Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. It is about one per cent of the total distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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Modi said this is the time for peace and brotherhood, and time to move forward together.
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