High Court gave its ruling where it cancelled the marriage of a 29 year old Sikh woman who was coerced to marry by her in-laws after the death of her husband. The jurisdiction was given pronounced by Justice Parker.
The Sikh woman was kidnapped by the family of her husband when she went back to India to attend the funeral of her husband. Two and a half weeks after the demise of her husband, she was forced to marry her father-in-law’s nephew. Her husband was killed in a car accident in India where she went and was given sedative pills and injected with drug by her in laws as she refused to obey their demand to marry again.
New Delhi - India on Wednesday launched its first mission to the moon with a "perfect" lift-off of the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, placing the country among a select group of nations that have sent lunar missions.
The 44-metre tall Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C11)rocket carrying the Chandrayaan probe lifted off at 0622 local time (0052 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,
80 kilometres north of the southern Chennai city.
The Indian Space Research Organization chief G Madhavan Nair described it as a "historic moment."
New Delhi - India on Wednesday launched its first-ever mission to the moon, with the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft blasting off from the Sriharikota spaceport in southern India on a two-year exploration.
The 44-metre tall Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C11) carrying the Chandrayaan probe lifted off at 0622 local time (0052 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, 80 kilometres north of Chennai.
The Indian Space Research Organization said the launch and the performance of the rocket was going "perfectly."
The Chandrayaan, which means moon craft in Sanskrit, is on a 3.86- billion-rupee (79-million-dollar) mission.
New Delhi, Oct. 22: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora will meet with representatives of state-run oil companies and private airlines here today in a bid to resolve their dispute over unpaid fuel bills.
According to sources, Deora and Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel have reportedly been asked by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who is currently away on an official visit to Japan and China, to resolve this issue at the earliest.
Pune, Oct 22: An International workshop on Advances in processing of Solid Propellant Rocket motors (IWAPS 2008) will be held at the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory
(HEMRL) here today.
The two-day workshop is being organised as part of the Golden Jubilee celebration of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Centenary Celebrations of HEMRL.
The objective of the workshop is to bring eminent scientists and technologists from across the globe together on a common platform to discuss the advances in the field of solid propellant processing in order to meet the challenges ahead for advanced futuristic propulsion systems needed for high pay loads.
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New Delhi, Oct. 22: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora will meet with representatives of state-run oil companies and private airlines here today in a bid to resolve their dispute over unpaid fuel bills.
