Cabinet blames CS for Bhatia fiasco
The Arun Bhatia verdict forced a definite but shortlived tremor through the highest echelons of power in the State Government, with a section of the State Cabinet bristling with indignation at the manner in which Chief Secretary C S Subramanyam allegedly mishandled the entire episode.

Insat 2E hits payload finally
The meteorological payload of the country's most sophisticated and highly powerful multipurpose satellite, Insat 2E, has been successfully switched on by spacecraft controllers with the imagery obtaining showing `good overall performance'.

Pakistan test-fires Shaheen
Pakistan on Thursday test-fired a surface-to-surface missile having a range of 600 km and the capacity to carry nuclear warhead, a day after it test-launched Ghauri-II.

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