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Canberra: Australia will include YouTube in its world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 after initially exempting the platform, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday. Albanese and Anika Wells, the minister for communications, said at a press conference in Canberra that the federal...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): As ISRO is set to launch the NISAR satellite onboard a GSLV-F16 rocket later Wednesday, here are some of the significant highlights of the satellite jointly developed with US' NASA. Some of the highlights of the mission In September, 2014, NASA and...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): Aimed at boosting ties between India and the United States on space exploration, India is geared up to launch an earth observation satellite jointly developed by ISRO and NASA Wednesday. Eyeing to study the planet Earth as a whole from a Sun-synchronous...

New Delhi: The maximum and minimum range capability of the 'Pralay' missile system were successfully tested by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Odisha over two days, an official said Tuesday. The User Evaluation Trials of Pralay, an indigenous solid propellant quasi-ballistic missile...

New Delhi: IT Ministry is keeping a close watch on the developments after Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) decision to lay off over 12,000 employees, according to sources. Employment growth remains a key priority, with sharp focus on how initiatives like Employment Linked Incentive can help...

New Delhi: Promising reserves of rare earth elements have been found in the Singrauli coalfields of Madhya Pradesh, Parliament was informed Monday. Rare earth elements (REE) are a group of metallic elements like scandium and yttrium that are used in modern technologies such as clean...

New Delhi: Billionaire Elon Musk-led satellite communication services provider Starlink can have only 20 lakh connections in India, Union Minister Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said on Monday, playing down the threat to state-run BSNL and other telecom players. The Minister of State for Telecom was speaking...

New Delhi: ISRO will launch Earth observation satellite NISAR Wednesday. Developed with NASA, the satellite aims to improve the management of natural resources and hazards. The observations of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite will be available to policymakers across the world, which will...

New Delhi: India's top IT services firms delivered single-digit revenue growth in April-June, capping off a mixed, somewhat-sobering quarter as macroeconomic instability and geopolitical tensions weighed on global tech demand and delayed client decisionmaking. Management commentary painted a mixed picture, caution prevailed, yet industry CEOs...

New Delhi: India's largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is set to lay off about 2 per cent, or 12,261 employees, of its global workforce this year, with the majority of those impacted belonging to middle and senior grades. As of June 30,...