Sci-Tech

New Delhi: A war of words broke out between Ola founder Bhavish Agarwal and stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra Sunday on social media platform X over the after sales and service quality of the company's electric scooters. It started when Kamra responded to a post on...

New Delhi: About 21 startups in India raised nearly $93 million in funding across 16 deals this week, which included four growth-stage deals and 12 early-stage fundings. It is a big drop from nearly $461 million raised by 29 domestic startups last week, which included...

New Delhi: India conducted three successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile system at Rajasthan's Pokhran firing ranges. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Army for the flight tests of the fourth-generation...

New Delhi: India's services sector activity fell to a 10-month low in September as new businesses, international sales and output growth moderated, a monthly survey said Friday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services Business Activity Index fell from 60.9 in August to 57.7 in September,...

New Delhi: Driven by the positive response to its Mumbai and Delhi retail stores, Apple Friday said it is geared up to launch more exclusive, own-branded stores in the country where the iPhone maker is witnessing a surge in domestic sales as well as export...

Bhubaneswar: Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) here will organise a two-day Life Science Startup Summit – 2024 from October 4, an official said Thursday. The event will be an innovation platform to bring together researchers, investors, corporations, policymakers, and representatives from public institutions, academia and...

New Delhi: Scientists have detected the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Pluto's largest moon, 'Charon', which they said could help understand how icy bodies originated and evolved in the outer Solar System. Once considered the ninth and last planet of the Solar System,...

Bangalore: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has handed over the first AL-31FP aero engine, manufactured under the 240-engine contract, to the Indian Air Force at Koraput in Odisha. The contract for 240 AL-31FP aero engines for Su-30MKI aircraft was signed September 9, Bangalore-headquartered HAL noted in...

New Delhi: The government Tuesday launched the PM E-DRIVE Scheme, with an outlay of Rs 10,900 crore for faster adoption of electric vehicles, setting up of charging infrastructure and development of EV manufacturing ecosystem in India. The scheme shall be implemented from October 1, 2024...

Bengaluru: Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 landed within a buried impact crater, which is around 160 km in size and approximately 4.4 km deep, and likely to be older than the South Pole Atkin (SPA) basin, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This is revealed...