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Bhubaneswar: Director General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, has received the prestigious United Nations Sasakawa Award-2025 for Disaster Risk Reduction. Mohapatra, known as India’s "cyclone man," hails from Odisha. The official X handle of the IMD announced the news Friday. “Congratulations India!!...

New Delhi: Elon Musk's Starlink has received a licence from the telecom department for providing satellite internet services in India, a key milestone that will take it closer towards launching commercial operations in the country. Starlink is the third company after Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio...

Washington: As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. After Trump threatened to cut government contracts given to Musk's SpaceX...

Brescia (Italy): India and Italy have agreed to increase cooperation in areas such as manufacturing, auto, aerospace, energy transition, migration and mobility, an official statement said Friday. These issues were discussed during the meetings between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Italy's Deputy Prime...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported seven new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, official sources said Friday. The COVID-19 case tally rose to 30. However, Public Health Director Nilakatha Mishra said seven patients have recovered, leaving 23 active cases. Mishra said that the situation remains under...

New Delhi: Covid is growing milder with time, but an occasional surge in cases is expected because the virus that causes it is now endemic and constantly evolving, say scientists, while assuring that there is no cause for concern. Addressing worries over the rising incidence...

As the world observes Environment Day Thursday, many may be shocked to learn how many people died from heatwaves in Odisha in 2024.

New Delhi: The Indian services growth broadly steadied in May and was underpinned by healthy demand conditions, new client wins and greater staffing capacity, a monthly report said Wednesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index was at 58.8 in May, marginally...

New Delhi: India on Tuesday sought consultations with the US under the World Trade Organisation's safeguard agreement over American tariffs on auto components. This move comes shortly after India reserved the right to impose retaliatory duties on select US products in response to American tariffs...

New Delhi: Axiom Space's mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, has been postponed to June 10 at 5:52 pm IST, onboard SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The announcement was made during...