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KOLKATA: Aerial rescue of stranded tourists and locals at Lachen, Lachung and Chungthang in North Sikkim — that had got separated from the rest of the state following the Teesta flash flood — began five days since the disaster on Monday.Multiple Army helicopters began lifting tourists from relief camps to safer terrains where from the tourists were facilitated to get back to NJP or Bagdogra for safe...

NEW DELHI: Having decked up Delhi for the G20 Summit, the city government's public works department has begun work to beautify the remaining parts of the national capital. The department has floated a tender for installing three fountains and a statue in central Delhi. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 44.95 lakh. "The fountains will be installed on Ludlow Castle Road, near the red light at...

BENGALURU: India’s first solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, early Tuesday began its 110-day-long journey to L1, about 1.5-million-km from Earth, with Isro completing the Trans-Lagrangian1 Insertion (TLI) flawlessly.The L1 refers to Lagrange Point-1 of the Sun-Earth system. It is a location in space where the gravitational forces of two celestial bodies, such as the Sun and Earth, are in...

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday left for Tokyo via Singapore on a week-long Japan tour, his third foreign tour in more than 23 years as CM, to attract foreign investment to Odisha.On his first day in Japan on Tuesday, Naveen is scheduled to meet Nippon Steel’s representative director and president Eiji Hashimoto. The meeting assumes significance because AMNS India, a joint venture...