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A Hyderabad-based company has developed a fully cryogenic rocket engine running on two rocket propellants, liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LoX).

The engine was test-fired for about 20 seconds as part of the demonstration.

A team of around 20 rocket engineers worked on this project for nearly two years. They have named the rocket engine 'Dhawan-1'.

Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder & CEO, told media that traditionally, liquid Hydrogen has been used but now space agencies, as well as space companies, are working on LNG because it is not only a greener fuel but also more cost-effective as compared to liquid Hydrogen. Even ISRO is working on it.

Former assistant commissioner of police Shamsher Singh Pathan in a letter to the commissioner of police has alleged that in the November 26, 2008 terror attack, IPS officer Param Bir Singh, posted then with ATS, took away terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s mobile phone from the custody of a constable and never returned.

Singh did not inform his higher ups, the letter said. Pathan stated that his batchmate NR Mali who was posted at the DB Marg police had on the fateful night when police team arrested Ajmal kasab at Girgaum chowpatty, Mali and his team had recovered one mobile phone from Kasab and was in the safe custody of constable Kamble but DIG Singh took away the said mobile phone.

Trinamool Congress will be asserting its independent stance in the upcoming winter session of Parliament without burning bridges with the opposition parties. Party leaders made it clear it was not going to play “second fiddle” to Congress in Parliament and would pursue its own anti-BJP offensive, as it was doing outside.

Trinamool has called a working committee meeting in Kalighat on Monday, the day Congress’s Rajya Sabha leader Mallikarjun Kharge holds a meeting with opposition parties in New Delhi. Trinamool seniors like national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and party leaders in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Derek O’Brien, respectively, will attend the meeting presided over by Mamata Banerjee. Fresh inductees such as former Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar too have been invited.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted southeast of Thenzawl in Mizoram in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed.

According to NCS, the tremors of the earthquake had a depth of 12 kilometres and occurred at around 5.15 am ."Earthquake of Magnitude:6.1, Occurred on 26-11-2021, 05:15:38 IST, Lat: 22.77 & Long: 93.23, Depth: 12 Km, Location: 73km SE of Thenzawl, Mizoram India," NCS tweeted.

Also, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale struck east of Chittagong, Bangladesh on Friday morning.