Sci-Tech

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Friday voiced concern over increasing space debris as a result of numerous satellites being placed in orbit and lauded ISRO for setting itself a target to make future space missions debris free by 2030. Murmu was speaking at the celebration...

New Delhi: NASA is expected to take a final decision Saturday to bring Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore back to Earth on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft or on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, the US space agency said. "NASA's decision on whether to return Starliner to Earth with...

Washington: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) June 6 and more than two and a half months later, their fate hang in balance as NASA mulls several options which can delay their return to earth to even...

New Delhi: Food safety regulator FSSAI Thursday directed food businesses, including e-commerce players, to remove claims of 'A1' and 'A2' types of milk and milk products from packaging, calling such labelling misleading. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said these claims do...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Thursday conferred the first-ever Vigyan Ratna Puraskar -– India's top most science award -- on noted biochemist and former director of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science Govindrajan Padmanabhan. At an award ceremony in the Ganatantra Mandapam of Rashtrapati Bhawan,...

New Delhi: A recent report revealed that e-commerce and tech startups, engineering and infrastructure, and retail are the top three industries in the country showing a strong intention to hire freshers in the second half of this year. The report also highlighted a 7% increase...

Bhubaneswar: Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment KV Singh Deo launched the e-farming app and portal to facilitate crop production and processing by implementing the digital survey policy in agriculture at Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) here Wednesday. The...

Bhubaneswar: A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has developed a solar-powered microwave pyrolysis reactor designed to recover valuable resources from both segregated and mixed waste materials, including biomass and plastics. The reactor uses microwave-assisted pyrolysis to rapidly convert waste into...

New Delhi: The European Space Agency (ESA) Wednesday said that its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has successfully completed its flyby of the Moon and the Earth, marking a double-first in space history. “ESA has successfully completed the world’s first-ever lunar-Earth flyby,” the ESA...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Wednesday questioned Amazon's announcement of $1 billion investment in India, saying the US retailer was not doing any great service to the Indian economy but filling up for the losses it had suffered in the country. He...