New Delhi: The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is set to launch initiatives, including PANCHAM – Panchayat Assistance and Messaging Chatbot -- developed in collaboration with UNICEF, it was announced Saturday. The Ministry will organise a felicitation function Sunday to honour elected Panchayat representatives invited as...
New Delhi: India’s QR‑code payment network, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), is expanding beyond its borders, with Japan among countries trialling the system to serve growing numbers of Indian tourists, a report has said. The report from Nikkei Asia said that Japanese IT services company...
San Francisco: Meta is halting teens' access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday. Meta Platforms Inc, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the coming weeks, teens will no longer be able to access...
Mumbai: Zomato’s parent firm Eternal Limited Wednesday announced a major leadership change, with its CEO Deepinder Goyal, resigning from his position with effect from February 1, 2026. The company said Albinder Dhindsa, who is currently the CEO of Blinkit, will take over as the new...
New Delhi: Astronaut Sunita Williams said space travel has changed her perspective towards life in general, and the idea of humans arguing or having differences over issues seems so "silly" when you look at Earth as "one planet" from outer space. Williams, 60, who recently...
New Delhi: The first set of satellites of India's privately-built national earth observation constellation is expected to be launched next year by a consortium of start-ups led by Bengaluru-based Pixxel Space. The Pixxel-led consortium signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian National Space Promotion...
New Delhi: After 50 years of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, when man first landed on the Moon, NASA is planning to send a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon February 6. The Artemis II crew includes NASA’s commander...
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh, launched India's first-ever open-sea marine fish farming project from the Andaman Sea Sunday. The minister described the initiative as one of the first major steps in the direction of realising the Blue Economy...
Cape Canaveral: An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours...
Bhubaneswar: A group of researchers at IIT Bhubaneswar has developed a satellite-based cost-effective technology for Bauxite prospecting and exploration in Odisha. Bauxite, the primary ore of aluminium, is a critical raw material for industries such as aerospace, construction, and packaging. With the global aluminium market...
In a disconcerting new report, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that almost every child in India is...
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By Aakar Patel Last week, on 17 June, it was reported that the ‘US has renamed the Indo-Pacific Command back...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent criticism of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) was not merely an expression of frustration. It...
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India is being shown in such a poor light that it does not stand comparison on the question of a...
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