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May 30, 2025 5:02 PM

Centre issues norms to curb illegal sale of radio equipment on e-com sites

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, on Friday issued norms to curb the illegal sale of radio equipment on e-commerce sites. The Guidelines for the Prevention and Reg...

May 30, 2025 3:59 PM

Astronomers scrutinize a star behaving unlike any other

Astronomers have spotted a star acting unlike any other ever observed as it unleashes a curious combination of radio waves and X-rays, pegging it as an exotic member of a class of celestial objects first identified only three years ago. It is locate...

May 30, 2025 10:56 AM

Musk aiming to send uncrewed Starship to Mars by end of 2026

Two days after the latest in a string of test-flight setbacks for his big new Mars spacecraft, Starship, Elon Musk said on Thursday he foresees the futuristic vehicle making its first uncrewed voyage to the red planet at the end of next year. Musk p...

May 29, 2025 2:54 PM

NASA astronauts Butch and Suni emerge from recovery after long Starliner mission

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the U.S. astronauts left on the International Space Station last year by Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule, are on the up after returning to Earth in March, emerging from weeks of physical therapy to ramp up work wi...

May 28, 2025 9:34 AM

SpaceX’s Starship spins out of control after flying past points of previous failures

SpaceX's Starship rocket roared into space from Texas on Tuesday but spun out of control about halfway through its flight without achieving some of its most important testing goals, bringing fresh engineering hurdles to CEO Elon Musk's increasingly t...

May 27, 2025 10:17 AM

Scindia unveils ‘Innovate to Transform’ as theme for 9th edition of India Mobile Congress

Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday unveiled 'Innovate to Transform' as the theme for ninth edition of the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025, scheduled to be held from October 8-11 at Delhi's Yashobhoomi Convention Centre....

May 27, 2025 9:23 AM

New method developed to detect hidden properties in exotic materials

In a breakthrough that could boost research in next-generation technologies, scientists at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, have developed a novel method to detect hidden quantum properties in exotic materials using a concept known as t...

May 26, 2025 5:21 PM

Govt convenes stakeholders’ meet to curb ‘dark patterns’ on e-commerce platforms

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Pralhad Joshi will chair a high-level stakeholders’ meeting on Wednesday to address growing concerns over "dark patterns"—deceptive design practices that manipulate consumer behav...

May 25, 2025 5:46 PM

Musk-run X suffers outage, users in India unable to login and load new posts

The Elon Musk-run social media platform X suffered a global outage on Saturday, affecting users in India as well. Many were unable to log in or load new posts. According to outage tracking website Downdetector, thousands of users reported issues acc...

May 23, 2025 4:34 PM

Astronomers spot galaxy shaped like the Milky Way but is far more massive

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and gas running through its center - but far more massive, o...

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