Sci-Tech

New Delhi/Balasore: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted a flight trial of a long-range hypersonic missile off the Odisha coast. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday, in a post on X, announced the significant achievement and said that this has put...

New Delhi: The Indian startup ecosystem raised more than $182 million in funding this week, a substantial gain from last week’s $138 million funding. At least 24 Indian startups secured nearly $182.62 million, led by three growth-stage deals and 19 early-stage deals. Rural household-focused platform...

Baku: Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest protest day during the two-week talks. The demonstration in Baku, Azerbaijan will be echoed at sites around the...

New York: Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analysed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a...

New Delhi: Automobile retail sales in India rose 12 per cent year-on-year to 42,88,248 units in the 42-day-long festive period this year, dealer's body FADA said on Friday. The overall automotive registrations in the festive period of the last year stood at 38,37,040 units. "We...

New Delhi: India Thursday said developed countries must commit to providing at least $1.3 trillion each year until 2030 to developing nations and that the new climate finance package, being negotiated at the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, cannot become an 'investment goal'. Speaking on...

New Delhi: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has completed the merger of its media assets with the India business of global media house Walt Disney and formed a joint venture with a valuation of over Rs 70,000 crore. The JV will be one of the...

New Delhi: India has successfully completed the flight-tests of guided Pinaka weapon system as part of a set of validation trials. During these tests, the Provisional Staff Qualitative Requirements (PSQR) parameters, viz., ranging, accuracy, consistency and rate of fire for multiple target engagement in a...

New Delhi: Consumer rights regulator CCPA has ordered a detailed probe into complaints related to alleged "deficiencies" in services and electric two-wheelers manufactured by Ola Electric. The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) headed by Nidhi Khare has directed the Director General (Investigation), who is also...

Jos (Nigeria): Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another. But it originally came from infected animals. The virus was discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of pox-like infection were seen in...