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New Delhi: In a bid to democratise space, US-based Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) and Blue Origin Monday announced India as a partner nation in their human spaceflight programme. SERA will offer citizens from India a seat on Blue Origin’s future mission of reusable...

New Delhi: India's manufacturing activity picked up momentum in June on the back of rising consumer demand leading to the fastest rate of hiring in 19 years, according to HSBC's final India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, released Monday. “The Indian...

New Delhi: Aortic aneurysms, which is often asymptomatic, is the third leading cause of sudden cardiac death, said experts Sunday stressing the need for raising awareness on the fatal heart condition. Aortic Aneurysms are the ballooning of the major blood vessel aorta, which carries blood...

New Delhi: India has prepared a checklist of its entire fauna, covering 1,04,561 species, becoming the first country in the world to do so. Launching the "Fauna of India Checklist Portal" on the occasion of the 109th Foundation Day of the Zoological Survey of India...

New Delhi: Tech honchos Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and others hailed India’s historic win over South Africa in a nerve-wrenching final of the ICC T20 World Cup at the Kensington Oval in Barbados Saturday. Alphabet and Google CEO Pichai posted on X: “What a game,...

New Delhi: About 17 Indian startups have raised $196.4 million in funding across 17 deals this week. This represents a decrease of 75 per cent from the $800.5 million secured by the startups last week across 21 deals, reports Inc42. The largest funding round was...

Washington: Denying that NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are stranded on the International Space Station (ISS), the US space agency and Boeing officials have said they are currently “not in any rush to come home.” Amid multiple reports claiming that the two astronauts,...

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature to bring a 'communities tab' to iPad. As shown in the screenshot shared by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is introducing the communities tab on the iPad app. This feature was previously unavailable on iPad, as it...

Colombo: As many as 137 Indian nationals who were allegedly involved in a large-scale online financial scam across multiple locations in Sri Lanka have been arrested by police, according to a media report Friday. They were arrested on Thursday from the Colombo suburbs of Madiwela...

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel Friday announced a 10-21 per cent hike in prepaid and postpaid mobile tariffs, a day after larger rival Reliance Jio announced an increase in rates. The move assumes significance, as it marks the first major increase in tariffs by the telecom...