Sci-Tech

New Delhi/Balasore: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) have successfully conducted the maiden flight-trial of Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) weapon off the coast of Odisha, it was announced Friday. TARA, the modular range extension kit, is India’s first...

New Delhi: Meta-backed WhatsApp Thursday announced the launch of ‘Business AI’ in India, bringing AI-powered customer support directly to the WhatsApp Business app to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) manage customer engagement round the clock. The feature is designed to enable eligible businesses to...

New Delhi: India's services sector growth climbed to a five-month high of 58.8 in April with new orders and output expanding at quicker rates, as firms indicated a shift from international to domestic suppliers amid the West Asia crisis, a monthly survey said Wednesday. The...

New Delhi: More than 9,400 WhatsApp accounts linked to India and involved in the so-called 'digital arrest' scam have been banned since January 2026, Attorney General R. Venkataramani told the Supreme Court. The development came to light through a note submitted by the Attorney General...

New Delhi: China accounts for around 16 per cent of India's total imports, but its dominance is significantly higher in industrial goods, supplying as much as 30.8 per cent of the country's requirements, think tank GTRI said Tuesday. The country's imports increased to USD 774.98...

New Delhi: India is expected to receive the fourth unit of the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system from Russia in the first part of next month that is expected to further enhance the IAF's air defence mechanism, sources in the security establishment said Tuesday. In...

Rourkela: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela have been granted a patent for a system that can rapidly detect and quantify adulteration in spices and other food products using infrared spectroscopy and machine learning. The technology combines Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy with...

Hong Kong: China Monday blocked Meta's acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, which has Chinese roots but is Singapore-based. In a short statement, China's National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top planning agency, said it was prohibiting a foreign acquisition of Manus and...

Oakland (US): Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged betrayal, deceit and unbridled ambition that blurred the bickering billionaires' once-shared vision for the development of artificial intelligence. The trial, which is scheduled...

Beijing: China launched a Pakistani satellite from its Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province Saturday night. The satellite named PRSC-EO3 was lifted off at 8:15 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-6 carrier rocket and successfully entered its planned orbit, China's state-run...