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New Delhi: IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has undertaken a key experiment to decode muscle health in space -- crucial for astronauts undertaking long space missions as well as for people with muscle loss on Earth. Shukla last week scripted history by becoming the first...

Puri: Cyber crime unit of the Odisha Crime Branch has identified 23 fake hotel websites and sent them for immediate blocking. Of these, 15 websites have already been taken down, and efforts are underway to block the remaining ones, Crime Branch sources said Monday. The...

New Delhi: Union Cabinet Tuesday approved the Research Development and Innovation Scheme with a corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore to spur private sector investment in research. The scheme, approved by the Cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aims to encourage...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted Tuesday that the Digital India initiative launched a decade ago bridged the digital divide between haves and have-nots, and democratised opportunity, stressing that it has become a people's movement. In a post on LinkedIn, he said while decades...

New York: US President Donald Trump has issued a deportation warning for Tesla and Space CEO Elon Musk who also served as his former advisor, saying the tech billionaire may need to "close up shop" and move back to South Africa in absence of electric...

New Delhi: India's industrial production growth slowed to a nine-month low of 1.2 per cent in May 2025 due to poor performance of the manufacturing, mining and power sectors, according to official data released Monday. The factory output, measured in terms of the Index of...

A viral video shows tree branches "raining" liquid like a sprinkler system, sparking hilarious reactions online. But what's really happening?

New Delhi: Indian IT majors are aggressively repositioning themselves as AI-native firms, focusing on high-margin applications and integration over high-risk, capital-intensive foundational research. A deep dive into the FY25 annual reports from the industry behemoths --- TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra -- indicates that...

Mumbai: In the backdrop of curbs over the use of loudspeakers, half-a-dozen mosques in Mumbai have registered on a dedicated mobile phone application which relays the 'azan', or call to prayer, directly to the faithful in real-time. The app, Online Azan, has been developed by...

New Delhi: India's Shubhanshu Shukla and other astronauts on the International Space Station relished delicacies such as 'gajar ka halwa', 'moong dal halwa' and 'aam ras' as they began their 14-day stay on the orbital lab. Shukla shared these details in an 18-minute interaction with...