The launch of Chandrayaan 2, India’s ambitious second lunar mission, was aborted 56 minutes before the scheduled lift-off early on Monday. The cryogenic stage of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) MK-III-M1 was filled with liquid hydrogen at 1:34 am, when the…
Tech giant Amazon is going ahead with its plans of extending the reach of its Alexa voice assistant beyond people’s houses, into their cars. As per reports, the firm has decided on a radical expansion of Alexa into the embedded software of…
London: It was a day of pure luck, one could argue, as England defeated New Zealand to win the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 by the narrowest of margins, here at Lord’s. It had been raining overnight, so when the covers came…
A virtual money loss worth 3.5 billion yen or $32 million has been reported by a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. Tokyo-based Remixpoint said that the losses were first confirmed on Thursday. The company also deals in other businesses, such as energy, used car,…
A $100 million contract for 1,000 Barak-8 MRSAM missile kits has been won by Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS), a joint venture between India’s Kalyani Group and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Systems. The kits will be manufactured at a production facility near Hyderabad…
Green energy is literally going ‘green’ as Uttarakhand government plans to produce power from pine needles! Letters of Award has been issued to 21 companies, which may be able to produce a combined 675 kW of electricity. So far, these companies have…
According to Edited, a retail analytics firm, the worldwide beauty industry currently values $532 billion and is predicted to keep growing in the near future. The rising popularity of social media platforms is being considered one of the biggest influencers in the…
California, on Tuesday, became the first US state to start offering healthcare services to ‘undocumented’ citizens or ‘illegal’ immigrants under its Medicaid programme. Governor Gavin Newsom, who belongs to the Democratic Party, signed the SB-104 bill, which covers 90,000 such citizens between…
It is almost as if old demons that lay dormant rose from their slumber at Old Trafford, as India failed to defend a meagre but decent 239 against New Zealand at the first semi-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 on…
London: DTEK Oil & Gas has won a competition to develop Zinkivska Block as part of Ukraine’s largest Product Sharing Agreement (PSA) in history. As part of the agreement, $37 million will be invested by the company to start exploration and production…
