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New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Friday gave assent to the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, a day after it was cleared by the Parliament, bringing sweeping restrictions on money-based online gaming platforms in India. The new law imposes stringent penalties on those...

Bangkok: China released new interim measures Friday tightening controls on mining and processing of rare earths that are used in many high-tech products including electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets. The rules released Friday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology apply both to...

New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Friday met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here and shared his experiences in space, her office said. Shukla is the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). He, along with other fellow astronauts, returned...

New Delhi: India is set to celebrate the second National Space Day Saturday, honouring the country's journey from satellites to human spaceflight. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, said in an X post that August 23, under the leadership of...

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk has been ordered by a US Federal judge to face a lawsuit from voters who accused him of defrauding them into signing a petition supporting the US Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway....

New Delhi: Excited after a successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Thursday hoped someone would very soon travel to space "from our own capsule, from our rocket, from our soil". Addressing a press conference here, Group Captain Shukla said...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Wednesday passed a Bill to ban the operating, facilitating and advertising of online games played with money, as the government looks to check rising instances of addiction, money laundering and financial fraud through such applications. The Promotion and Regulation of Online...

New Delhi: The government Wednesday moved a legislation in the Lok Sabha to ban online games played with money as it looks to check rising instances of addiction, money laundering, and financial frauds through such applications. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025...

Hyderabad: ISRO Chairman V Narayanan Tuesday said the space agency has been working on a rocket as high as a 40-storey building to place 75,000 kg payload in low earth orbit. Delivering the convocation address of Osmania University in Hyderabad, Narayanan said this year, the...

New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that there is a lot of interest about India's Gaganyaan mission around the world and scientists were keen to be part of it. In an interaction with the prime minister Monday evening, Shukla also shared...