Chennai, Dec 31 (UNI) The 25 hour countdown for the Monday New Year day launch of PSLV-C58/XPoSat, X-ray Polarimeter Satellite, mission along with 10 other payloads, began at the spaceport of Sriharikota on Sunday morning. The 25 hour countdown began at 0810 hrs today, ISRO sources confirmed to UNI. ISRO said “the 25 hour 00-minute…
Chennai, Dec 30 (UNI) The countdown for the New Year day launch of PSLV/-C58/XPoSat, X-ray Polarimeter Satellite, mission along with 10 other payloads, will begin at the spaceport of Sriharikota on Sunday. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sources on Saturday said the 44.4m tall four-stage PSLV-C58,vin its 60th flight and fourth under DL variant,…
Chennai, Dec 29 (UNI) Wading through grieving hundreds and thousands of his fans, party cadres, the body of actor-politician and DMDK Founder Vijayakanth, who passed away on Thursday, was shifted to the sprawling Island grounds in the city to enable the public to pay their homage, on Friday morning. After lakhs of people paid their…
Chennai, Dec 28 (UNI) Actor-politician Vijayakanth, who passed away on Thursday, was an active politician and equally took both the DMK and he AIADMK in his short and productive stint before ill-health kept him out of active political scenario for the last few years. He was hailed as Captain by the DMDK cadres and also…
Chennai, Dec 26 (UNI) The Executive Committee and the General Council meeting of the main Opposition AIADMK–the first after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K.Palaniswami was officially elected as General Secretary of the party– began here on Tuesday. More than 2,000 EC and General Council members are attending the key meeting of the party…
Chennai, Dec 25 (UNI) A couple of days after a war of words with the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on the relief measures in rain battered southern districts, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman witll visit Thoothukudi district, which bore the brunt of the rain fury last week, on Tuesday. “Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman…
Chennai, Dec 21 (UNI) The Madras High Court on Thursday awarded three years simple imprisonment to senior leader of the ruling DMK and Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K.Ponmudy and is wife P.Visalatchi in Rs 1.72 crore disproportionate assets case. Delivering the quantum of punished after he was convicted for the offence on December 19,…
Chennai, Dec 15 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking three months moratorium of repayment of loans by MSMEs in view of the devastation caused by the cyclone. In a Demi-Official letter to Ms Nirmala, Mr Stalin requested her to provide moratorium on loan repayment for MSMEs…
Chennai, Dec 15 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin has written to External Affairs Minister Dr.S.Jaishankar seeking immediate release of 45 fishermen and their 138 boats apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy. In a Demi-Official letter to Dr Jaishankar, he requested him to take necessary steps to release 45 fishermen and 138 fishing boats: “I…
Chennai, Dec 8 (UNI) The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) instrument on board the Aditya-L1 spacecraft–India’s first sun exploratory mission– has successfully captured the first full disk images of the Sun. The first full disk images were captured in the 200-400 nm wavelength range. The SUIT captured images of the Sun’s photosphere and chromosphere in…
