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New Delhi: India has made notable progress in enhancing its competitiveness and making its manufacturing sector more attractive to global investors, an S&P Global report said on Monday. While manufacturing value added accounts for a modest 17.2 per cent of the country’s real gross domestic...

New Delhi: The government has received 70 applications for Rs 23,000-crore electronics component manufacturing scheme, and majority of applicants are small and medium enterprises, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. These applications have come within half a month of opening the window for the scheme "Electronics...

New Delhi: India's smartphone exports surged nearly fivefold to the US and about fourfold to Japan in the past three years, propelling the segment to surpass petroleum products and diamonds as the country's top exported goods, according to government data. The smartphone exports rose by...

Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday suffered a setback as its 101st mission, PSLV-C61 carrying the EOS-09 satellite, faced a technical malfunction in the launch vehicle. The malfunction led to the mission failure, and the satellite could not be successfully deployed. The...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): The 22-hour countdown for the launch of an earth imaging satellite on-board a PSLV rocket commenced in Sriharikota Saturday, ISRO sources said. The lift-off for the PSLV-C61 is scheduled to take place at 5.59 am from the first launch pad at this...

New Delhi: Indian startups collectively raised around $194.22 million this week across 28 deals. The funding spanned nine growth and late-stage rounds and 18 early-stage deals, with one startup choosing not to disclose its funding amount. Bengaluru continued to lead India’s startup ecosystem, recording 12...

Bhubaneswar: Amid reports of rise in COVID-19 cases in Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong, Odisha government Saturday said it is closely monitoring the situation and is in constant coordination with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The state has also reportedly ramped up...

Dehradun: The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, has formally cancelled a memorandum of understanding it had with Turkiye's Inonu University. The MoU provided a framework for potential academic and research collaborations, including student and faculty exchanges, a statement from IIT-Roorkee said Friday. "IIT-Roorkee stands firmly...

New Delhi: US-based company Axiom Space Thursday announced a delay to its Mission-4 (Ax-4), which intended to carry astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, set to become the first Indian ever to go to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission earlier scheduled for launch May 29, will...

New Delhi/Gopalpur: India achieved a significant milestone in its counter-drone capabilities with the successful test firing of its low-cost, hard-kill counter-swarm drone system, 'Bhargavastra', at the Seaward Firing Range in Gopalpur Wednesday. The system met all specified performance targets and is being hailed as a...