Sci-Tech

New Delhi:In 1930, while en route to the UK to pursue a physics scholarship, a teenage Indian student solved a cosmic conundrum that had baffled the world’s leading physicists. Armed with only pen and paper, he tackled a problem that had even puzzled one of...

New Delhi: IT services firm Tech Mahindra Saturday reported a more than two-fold jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 1,250 crore for the July-September quarter, driven by special income from the sale of assets. The Mahindra Group company posted a net profit of...

Washington: Elon Musk-run SpaceX has won a $733 million, eight-launch contract from the US Space Force. The US Space Force’s Space Systems Command issued Launch Service Task Orders (LSTOs) totalling $733,566,001 to SpaceX under the “National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1.” “In this...

New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country are offering fee concessions and relaxation in already lower cut-off to students from reserved categories to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all, according to officials. "In the JEE-based admissions, fee remissions and...

New Delhi: India has surpassed China to become the largest two-wheeler market in the world, driven by rising demand in rural areas, supported by favourable monsoon conditions and government initiatives for rural development, a report showed on Friday. Globally, two-wheeler sales grew 4 per cent...

Rourkela: Komal Panda,22, a resident of Rourkela and a fourth-year industrial and product design student at the National Institute of Design (NID), Haryana, has been named the national winner of the James Dyson Award-2024 for her innovative design project named ‘Novocarry’. Announced September 11, 2024,...

New Delhi: Tech billionaire Elon Musk thanked Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia for not agreeing with Indian tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal on auctioning spectrum for satellite services, saying he is looking forward to serving Indians. Reacting to Scindia's statement that satellite spectrum will...

New Delhi: India’s Generative AI (GenAI) ecosystem saw the total number of startups surging 3.6 times, from over 66 in the first half of 2023 to more than 240 in the first half this year, a Nasscom report said Wednesday. India now ranks sixth globally...

New Delhi: As battlelines are being drawn over the modalities of allocating satcom spectrum, TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti Wednesday said the consultation process is currently on and that the telecom regulator will consider all inputs put before taking a considered view. The regulator's comments...

New Delhi: The world's richest person Elon Musk has taken on Indian billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal over the allocation of spectrum used in wireless communication using satellites, calling their demand for the auction of such airwaves "unprecedented". While Ambani's Reliance Jio has...