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Washington: Engineering teams from NASA and Boeing successfully completed a crucial hot fire test of the Starliner spacecraft’s reaction control system jets July 27, a notification released by NASA said Wednesday. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, assigned to the Boeing Crew Flight Test,...

New Delhi: India now has 117 crore mobile connections and 93 crore internet connections, Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said in the Lok Sabha Wednesday while noting that call rates in the country are one of the lowest in the world. Scindia said the cost of...

New Delhi: India is working on developing bullet trains in the country with indigenous technology, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Wednesday He said in the Lok Sabha that the bullet train project, first of which is under construction between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, is very complex...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that incentives worth Rs 9,721 crore have been claimed under the PLI scheme for nine sectors, including large scale electronics manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. In a written reply to a question, Goyal said...

New Delhi: Warming of the Arabian Sea is allowing the formation of deep cloud systems, leading to extremely heavy rainfall in Kerala in a shorter period and increasing the possibility of landslides, a senior climate scientist said Tuesday. Extremely heavy rain triggered a series of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said India is firmly on the path to becoming the world's third-biggest economy within next five years and that global investors are eyeing it as an investment destination, as he exhorted the domestic industry to seize the golden...

Bengaluru: Hiring for the power and energy sector in India is surging 9.01 per cent in H1 FY25, indicating a move towards a low-carbon future, driven by significant government initiatives, according to a report Monday. The employment outlook report, by TeamLease Services -- a staffing...

New Delhi: One of the four astronauts undergoing training for the Gaganyan mission will travel to the International Space Station as part of a collaborative effort with NASA, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has informed the Lok Sabha. In a written reply, Singh said NASA has...

New Delhi: About 17 per cent children in the age group of 0-5 years are underweight, while 36 per cent are stunted and 6 per cent are wasted, the Women and Child Development Ministry said Friday. Stunted, wasted and underweight are key indicators of malnutrition...

New Delhi: In yet another success story of India’s local manufacturing push, iPhone maker Apple has achieved record exports numbers in the April-June quarter in the country, reaching around $3.8 billion. Riding on the government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, Apple reached a new all-time high...