BJP MLAs are in our contact: Ramesh Jarkiholi
Belagavi, June 30: The news of Congress MLAs joining hands with BJP is a lie. On the contrary, BJP MLAs are contacting us, said minister Jarkiholi on Saturday.
Speaking to the reporters at Suvarna Soudha, minister said that, no MLA from our party is joining BJP. Instead, MLAs of BJP are in our contact. High command will decided about them joining the party.
Reacting to the statement, congress do not encourage individual worship, by water resource minister D.K Shivakumar, Jarkiholi said that former CM Siddaramaiah is our leader. I and other MLAs had gone to Shantivana in Dharmasthala to know about his health condition.
Siddaramaiah has helped me and congress party a lot. Its our duty to remember him. How can meeting our leader be person worship. That is Shivakumar's personal view. I am the honest worker of congress party, he added.
Congress legislative party leader Siddaramaiah is not opposing the JDS-congress coalition government from presenting new budget. He only advised to continue the schemes introduced during his tenure.
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ISRO successfully conducts second integrated air drop test for Gaganyaan mission
New Delhi (PTI): Space agency ISRO has successfully conducted the second integrated air drop test (IADT-02) for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission at the space station in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
The system is essential to ensure a safe recovery of the crew module -- the capsule in which astronauts sit during a human flight -- during re-entry and landing.
Union minister Jitendra Singh congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successfully conducting the test.
"Congratulations #ISRO for the successful accomplishment of Second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) for #Gaganyaan, India's first Human Space flight scheduled next year. The second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) was successfully conducted at Satish Dhawan Space Station Sriharikota," Singh said in a post on X.
The IADT-02 follows the successful completion of the first IADT, which took place on August 24, 2025, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Air drop tests recreate the last leg of a spacecraft's return to Earth. An aircraft or helicopter drops the spacecraft from a height to test various systems under different scenarios.
These are the deployment of the parachute system in case the mission is aborted mid-flight, system performance when one parachute fails to open and the spacecraft's orientation and safety during splashdown etc.
In the IADT-02 test, a simulated crew module, weighing about 5.7 tonnes, was lifted by an Indian Air Force Chinook helicopter to an altitude of about three kilometres and released over a designated drop zone in the sea, near the Sriharikota coast.
In a statement, the ISRO said, "Ten parachutes of four types were deployed in a precise sequence during the descent of the crew module, gradually reducing the velocity for safe touchdown. Subsequently, the simulated crew module was successfully recovered in coordination with the Indian Navy."
