Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive at Karnataka today for a two-day visit. Prime Minister who was the chief guest at the agriculture awards ceremony held at Tumkuru Junior College Ground, Karnataka. The Prime Minister will present awards to the 21 states that have produced the best agriculture during the last harvest season as part of Prime Minister Krishi Samman Yojana.   He will visit DRDO, defense research, and development firm. The Prime Minister will attend the 107th National Science Congress in Bengaluru tomorrow. He will also present various awards instituted by the Indian Science Congress Association.

New Delhi: 28 Aadhaar Seva Kendras have been set up across the country for new Aadhaar registration and Aadhaar corrections. The centers will be under UIDAI, the Aadhaar provider. This is in addition to the more than 38,000 Aadhaar enrollment centers run by banks, post offices, and state governments. UIDAI announced that it will be able to perform thousands of new registration and correctional tasks daily through the Aadhaar Seva Kendras, which operate every day of the week.

New Delhi: India’s third mission to the Lunar will be completed by 2020 Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs said.

“The Lander and Rover mission will be implemented in 2020. Chandrayaan 2 was not a failure, we have learned a lot from it. No country in the world has succeeded in its first attempt, and even the United States has tried many times. But we don’t need that much effort, ‘says Jitendra Singh.

Chandrayaan 2 was India’s first mission to land on the Lunar. The crash happened on September 7 while trying to land on the moon. Jitendra Singh confirmed this in Parliament. Had the mission been successful, India would have been the fourth country in the world to have successfully landed a soft landing.

The US, former USSR, and China are countries that have done soft landing before. But so far no one has been able to land in the South. The remains of the shattered Vikram Lander were confirmed by an Indian engineer, NASA.

Thiruvananthapuram: Election commission gives the opportunity to add the name in the voter’s list. New members can apply and, make corrections up to January 15. The final list will make on February 4, said, Chief Election Officer Tikaram Meena.

This list does not have any relation with the NRC, he added. And he added that will take strict action against doubling in the voter’s list. 

Srinagar: The mobile SMS service which was disconnected in the state following the cancellation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir has been restored after five months from midnight on Tuesday. Internet services are also provided in government hospitals.

Jammu and Kashmir government spokesman Rohit Kansal said the government has decided to restore the Internet to all government hospitals along with a complete restoration of the mobile phone SMS service. Meanwhile, Kashmir’s internet and pre-paid mobile services have not yet been restored. Reports say Kashmir is witnessing the longest internet cancellation in a democracy.

“We are trying to take every possible step, slowly but surely,” said Kansal, who is also the Principal Secretary for Planning, Development, and Monitoring of the Jammu and Kashmir government.

Currently, students, contractors, tour operators, and government officials can access various Internet touchpoints, Kansal said. There are over 900 touchpoints and special counters in Kashmir’s major tourist destinations, hotels, and various districts. About six lakh people have availed themselves of these touchpoints.

Five MLAs have been released from their MLA hostel in Srinagar on Monday. Former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Umar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti is still in detention. “They will be released on the basis of law and order situation,” Kansal said.