- Thursday, March 06, 2025
From launch vehicles to space tourism, India's space sector start-ups are set to soar after Skyroot Aerospace's maiden suborbital flight from the spaceport at Sriharikota on Friday (18). The Vikram-S rocket, developed over the past two years and built using 3-D printing technology, reached an altitude of 89.5 kilometres (km).…
The Nepal Army has given a contract to a Chinese firm to build a key phase of an expressway linking Kathmandu, the country's capital, with the southern plains, overlooking a bid made by India's Afcons Infrastructure, according to The Economic Times. The development took place less than 10 days before…
Over 300 students from state-run schools in Lucknow, the capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, took part in a children's convention on climate change on Friday (18) and handed over a charter of demands seeking inclusion of climate change in the curriculum to senior government officials, the…
All payments at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-New Delhi will go fully digital from April 1, 2023, with the premier hospital introducing smartcards in addition to UPI (Unified Payments Interface) and card payments at counters. "AIIMS New Delhi introduces #SmartCard in addition to UPI and card payments at…
England might have prepared well for the football World Cup kicking off in Qatar in another couple of days but after reaching the venue, their players have discovered a challenge that their management would have little expected. The challenge is nothing but noisy camels. [caption id="attachment_136331" align="aligncenter" width="675"] England captain…
At a time when a brutal murder of a young woman allegedly by her live-in partner has left India shocked and fresh gory details are emerging almost every day, a minister from the country's Narendra Modi government has come up with a controversial statement. Kaushal Kishore, a junior minister in…
India's Tata Group is considering a plan to integrate its four airline brands under Air India Limited, Bloomberg reported citing informed sources. The large conglomerate is also mulling scrapping the Vistara brand -- Singapore Airline Limited's official affiliate in India, the sources added on the condition of anonymity, the report…
The Supreme Court of India cautioned a lawyer today for appearing before it without the case file, saying a lawyer without a brief is like Sachin Tendulkar without his bat. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli noticed a lawyer appearing before it without…
Leaving 10 Downing Street was a political hammer blow for Boris Johnson but is doing no harm to his depleted bank balance. The former prime minister was paid more than $325,000 for just one speech at a US insurance industry event, according to an updated list of British MPs' register…
Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (18) received a death threat ahead of his party's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' (Unite India March) entering the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in the country's Hindi heartland. The 52-year-old former president of India's grand-old party, which is trying to regain…
