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“Italy is going to Mars!” Italian Space Agency president Teodoro Valente said on X [File] | Photo Credit: AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to carry Italian experiments on its Starship megarocket during planned future missions to Mars, according to a new deal announced on Thursday. “Italy is going to Mars!” Italian Space Agency president…
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A few weeks back, India’s Finance Ministry declared the Indian economy to be in a “Goldilocks situation” — a rare alignment of moderate growth, subdued inflation and supportive monetary conditions. Analysts too, taking a narrow, quarterly view of the Indian economy conceded, marking this as a “mini-Goldilocks moment” for its macroeconomic position, spurred by 7.6%…
A Special Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai on Thursday began hearing a review of a May 2 verdict of the court, which rejected a resolution plan submitted by JSW Steel for Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd (BPSL). The apex court judgment had further ordered the liquidation of…
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U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on August 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters After doubling tariffs on India to 50% over Russian oil imports, U.S. President Donald Trump indicated that he may even pause trade talks between the two countries until the oil issue was ‘resolved’. Speaking to…
ISRO/NRSC used Cartosat-2S data to assess the devastating Aug 5 flash flood in Dharali & Harsil, Uttarakhand. Source: X/isro The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) National Remote Sensing Centre has done a “rapid assessment” of the damage caused by the flash floods in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand using very high-resolution images from the Cartosat-2S satellite….
Kamolika Peres Gupta, Vice President, India and SAARC, Autodesk | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Autodesk on Thursday (August 7, 2025) said its customers in India can now store and manage their data within the country. Until now, there was no local storage option available for the country, and therefore, customer data was stored outside the…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (August 7, 2025) demanded the immediate resignation of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, calling him “highly conflicted” due to his ties to Chinese firms and raising questions about plans to turn around the struggling American chip icon. Reuters reported exclusively in April that Mr. Tan — himself or through…
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How does your body protect itself? How does the immune system fight threats? And how much do you know about this process? Take this quiz and find out. Science Quiz: On the immune system 1 / 6 | A number of organs and cells make up your body’s immune system. What are the small, bean-shaped…
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). | Photo Credit: Reuters Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty staged a comeback on Thursday (August 7, 2025), mainly due to buying in the last hour of trade, even as U.S. President Donald Trump slapped an additional 25% duty on Indian goods, which weighed on investor sentiment. Rebounding around 926 points…
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Scott Wang, Vice President, Asia Pacific, for the World Trade Centers Association. Photo: Special Arrangement The increasingly inward looking attitude of countries around the world didn’t happen overnight, and is a result of the unequal growth that emerged from the ‘golden’ period of globalisation in the 1990s and 2000s, according to Scott Wang, Vice President,…
