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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday asked space scientists to prepare for a deep space exploration mission to unravel the secrets that brighten the future of humanity. In a video address on the National Space Day, Modi announced that India was preparing to set...

New Delhi: The government has not issued any order to unblock Chinese social media platform TikTok, official sources said late Friday. Reports to the contrary started surfacing after some people were able to access the TikTok website on their desktop browsers. "The Government of India...

New Delhi: ISRO Friday unveiled a model of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS) module during the two-day National Space Day celebrations that began in New Delhi. India plans to launch the first module of the BAS, its own home-built space station, by 2028, marking its...

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...