Aiming to take science education to students in areas without access to such services, the Union Culture Ministry on Thursday rolled out 25 new mobile science museums, including one for Ladakh.

Union Culture and Tourism Minister of State (independent charge) Prahlad Singh Patel flagged off the science museum bus in Leh as a part of the mobile science exhibition programme of the Ministry. These museums-on-wheels will travel to schools in the 115 “aspirational districts”, as named by the Centre Speaking at the launch in Leh, Mr. Patel said the programme has been successful in supplementing formal education and creating scientific awareness since its inception in 1965. Till now, the programme had 23 such buses or vans.

New Delhi: Investigation into crimes is the "prerogative" of police and courts should not interfere in its each and every stage as this would affect the normal course of probe, the Supreme Court said Thursday.

The apex court, while denying anticipatory bail to senior Congress leader and former union minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case, said it must be left to the discretion of the investigating agency to decide the course of probe and except in rare cases, the judiciary should keep itself out of it.

A bench of Justices R Banumathi and AS Bopanna said it is not the court's function to monitor investigation process as long as it does not violate any provision of law, and it should be left to agencies to proceed in their own manner in interrogation of accused and nature of questions put to him.

The Indian Space Research Organisation has just announced that viewers will be able to watch the ISRO Chandrayaan 2 landing live online tonight from their laptops, smartphones and other devices with Internet connectivity. Owing to the enthusiasm amongst people across India and even the world regarding Chandrayaan 2 landing on the moon, adequate measures have been taken to ensure viewers do not miss the live streaming of Chandrayaan 2 landing live online.

While top dignitaries including Prime Minister Narendra Modi with be watching Chandrayaan 2 landing live from the ISRO Control Room, ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) facility in Bengaluru, the media has also been invited to watch and relay the same from the facility. 70 school children who performed exceedingly well in the ISRO Space Quiz will also be present at ISTRAC.

Today is Teacher's Day. It is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of former President and great educationist Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. President Ram Nath Kovind will confer the National Award to Teachers-2018 in New Delhi today.

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narender Modi have greeted teachers across the country on this occasion. On the occasion of teacher's day, government schools all over Uttar Pradesh are going to enter into a new era of digital transformation with "Prerna App" which was launched by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath yesterday.

Wipro has bagged a seven-year contract worth $300 million from ICICI Bank. Under the deal, which is expected to be completed by September 30, the IT major will offer a range of services through its artificial intelligence platform Wipro HOLMES.

The Bengaluru headquartered company said in a regulatory filing that it would acquire Vara Infotech, which is a service provider to ICICI Bank. In the statement, the company said it will purchase Vara Infotech's existing contracts, assets and liabilities through a business transfer agreement of Rs 321 crore. The business accounted for about Rs 221.5 crore for FY19.

Nobel Laureate from Bangladesh Professor Muhammad Yunus was conferred the 'Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis ' award by the Vatican for his contribution towards establishing peace and harmony. The award is a recognition for distinguished work by an individual for promoting peace and dialogue among people.

The ceremony took place at the historical Papal Basilica of Assisi in Italy on Tuesday. In his acceptance speech Professor Yunus said that extreme concentration of wealth, environmental degradation and rise of artificial intelligence threaten the existence of mankind.

India has pipped the Netherlands to move into the list of top ten countries in terms of total gold reserves.

According to the World Gold Council, India has gold reserves totalling 618.2 tonnes, which is marginally higher than the Netherlands’ reserves of 612.5 tonnes.

Interestingly, in terms of individual countries, India actually ranks ninth since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) occupies the third position after the U.S. and Germany.

Qatar unveiled the logo for the 2022 World Cup which will be hosted by the Gulf emirate, displaying it in public spaces in Doha and cities around the world on Tuesday.

The design is a stylised Arabic white unisex shawl with maroon patterning, which is displayed in a figure-of-eight symbolising infinity while creating a heart shape above the words “FIFA WORLD CUP Qatar 2022”.

It was projected onto the vast facade of the country's National Archives in the capital's southern Msheireb district to fanfare that included a procession of soldiers on horseback watched by a crowd of hundreds.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora today assumed Chairmanship of Association of World Election Bodies, AWEB for the term 2019-21 as India takes over the Chair from Romania. 

An official release said, India was unanimously nominated to be the Vice-Chair of AWEB at the last General Assembly held at Bucharest in 2017. 

The AWEB Flag was handed over to the new Chairman, Sunil Arora and it will remain with Election Commission of India for the two year term till 2021. More than 110 delegates from 45 countries attended the meeting. 

Mr Arora announced that an AWEB Centre would be set up at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management, New Delhi for documentation, research and training and fr sharing best practices.

Former India limited overs skipper Mithali Raj on Tuesday announced retirement from T20 International to focus on one-day cricket, keeping 2021 50-over World Cup in mind.

The 36-year-old senior opener has captained the country in 32 T20Is, including the three women’s WT20 World Cups in 2012 (Sri Lanka), 2014 (Bangladesh) and 2016 (India).

“After representing India in T20 internationals since 2006, I wish to retire from T20Is to focus my energies on readying myself for the 2021 One Day World Cup,” said Mithali, who had captained Indian women’s first-ever T20I played in Derby back in 2006.