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Here comes the sun watcher, India’s Aditya-L1 Sometime in 2019 or 2020 India will send ISRO’s solar mission Aditya-L1 to a vantage point in space, known as the L1 Lagrange point, to do imaging and study of the sun. This launch will happen in the early part of the next solar cycle - an...

India has potential to be $10 trillion economy: McKinsey MD Dominic Barton Despite bitter competition, the leaders of competing consulting firms grudgingly admit that Dominic Barton ‘saved’ McKinsey. In 2009, just after his election to the firm’s corner office, Barton bore the brunt of the Rajat...

Delhi-Chandigarh 200-kmph rail corridor to cost Rs 11,000 crore: French report It will cost about Rs 11,000 crore ($1.7 billion) to increase the train speed up to 200 km per hour on the Delhi-Chandigarh route so that a passenger can travel the distance in two hours, according to the draft final...

Rigid alliances will be avoided: India Many of the assumptions that guided our thinking in the past are no longer valid, says S. Jaishankar A week after joining the first official-level meeting of the new quadrilateral grouping in the Asia Pacific region, India on Monday stressed that it will...

Tamil Nadu to Set up India’s 1st Offshore Desalination Unit, Cost an Estimated Rs 2000 Crore! In a bid to ease its water woes, Chennai may just be on its way to becoming the first in India to set up an off-shore desalination plant. To facilitate the same, a deep-sea site that is 40 km from the...

India's first indigenous submarine INS Kalvari to join Navy fleet in December INS Kalvari, a diesel electric conventional submarine will be joining the Indian Navy fleet on the 2nd week of December, top Ministry of Defence sources have told India Today. Kalvari means 'a deep sea tiger shark'...

In 24 hours, Mumbai airport handles 969 flights; sets new world record Creating a new world record for single-runway operations, Mumbai airport handled 969 take-offs and landings in 24 hours on Friday. It broke its own record of 935, said a Mumbai International Airport Ltd spokesperson (MIAL)...

First LPG carrier to arrive in Bangladesh in December The vessel, named BEXPETRO 1, with an LPG carrying capacity of 2700 MT will be the first Bangladeshi ship to directly procure LPG at source The purchase of Bangladesh’s first LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) carrying vessel is being processed by...

Kochi Takes Crown For Indian Port Growth High throughput growth at Kochi port (Conchin Port) on India’s west coast has meant it is now the fastest growing Indian port, according to The Hindu. The International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTI) registered its highest ever monthly throughput...

UK Drops Out of Top 5 Economies, Only One Spot Above India Now London: Britain has officially abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy. Treasury chief Philip Hammond acknowledged the slide on Wednesday, noting the new ranking in a series of statements meant to highlight the...

Pre-monsoon dust aerosol loading reduces over north India Though the aerosol burden over north India is three times more than the global mean value and has been increasing at about 3% per year for the past few decades, the amount of dust aerosol during the pre-monsoon period has decreased by...

India to step beyond renewable goal with China-scale tenders In a bid to exceed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s climate pledges, India announced that it will tender enough renewable energy projects over the next three years to surpass 200 gigawatts of green capacity build by 2022. India...

Rs 15 crore bank deposits made post demonetisation declared benami Cash deposits of Rs 15.39 crore made in a Delhi bank post demonetisation have been held as 'benami' property by a special court even as the depositor and the beneficial owner of the stash are "untraceable". The deposits were...

Deaths as major explosion flattens part of Chinese port city Buildings collapse and vehicles destroyed as explosion in eastern port city of Ningbo leaves more than 30 casualties A factory explosion in a port city south of Shanghai on Sunday killed at least two people and injured at least 30...

At least 30 injured from Zhejiang neighborhood explosion More than 30 people were rushed to the hospital after an explosion in East China's Zhejiang Province Sunday morning. The blast happened in the Limeng neighborhood in Ningbo at 8: 50 am on Sunday. Many nearby neighborhoods were affected...

Talgo chief meets Rail Ministry, offers to manufacture in India Minister Piyush Goyal today met José María Oriol, the CEO of Talgo, who offered to build the light-weight, energy efficient Spanish Talgo trains in the country under the 'Make in India' initiative, ministry officials said. The...

Indian Navy Ready to Receive Multiple Maneuverable Warhead Tracking Vessel The vessel’s X-band precision tracking radar can track the inbound flight trajectories of multiple maneuverable warheads apart from monitoring the trajectories of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched...

When something bad happens, only one party isn't affected. Everybody local is displaced due to fear mongering and environment. This will help those still residing in Rakhine province irrespective of religion. Displaced person is displaced person. Relief work isn't done from lenses of religion...

Re-invest in countries that generate revenue: Prasad Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday called for global consensus on creating an ecosystem where technology giants are required to "reinvest" a sizeable portion of their revenues on the development of digital...

Indian outbound market to GCC expected to increase 50% by 2021 The India stand at ATM 2017, with 25 Indian participants in total including two regional tourism boards. (Supplied) Around nine million Indians are expected to travel to the GCC by 2021, according to the latest figures from Colliers...