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Investigation into PSLV failures ‘ongoing’, next launch date in June: Minister

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Investigation into PSLV failures ‘ongoing’, next launch date in June: Minister

The investigation into the causes behind the consecutive failures of the Indian Space Rearch Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is ongoing, and an external team is also involved in the probe. Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI The investigation into the causes behind the consecutive failures of the Indian…

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Is it okay for an Indian scientist to have taken Jeffrey Epstein’s money?

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Is it okay for an Indian scientist to have taken Jeffrey Epstein’s money?

A decade ago, I heard a talk by an environmental activist in Chennai. This person almost always worked in settings with significant resource constraints and on activities that society had a tendency to overlook. Jeffrey Epstein had not been the well-known name it has become in India, and around the world, today. But the activist…

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Is it okay for an Indian scientist to have taken Jeffrey Epstein’s money?

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Is it okay for an Indian scientist to have taken Jeffrey Epstein’s money?

A decade ago, I heard a talk by an environmental activist in Chennai. This person almost always worked in settings with significant resource constraints and on activities that society had a tendency to overlook. Jeffrey Epstein had not been the well-known name it has become in India, and around the world, today. But the activist…

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Indonesia to restore access to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot

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Indonesia to restore access to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot

Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualise pictures of women and children using simple text prompts [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s…

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X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows

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X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows

The website tracks outages ​by collating status ⁠reports from a number of sources [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Elon Musk’s social ​media platform X ‌was back ​up after a brief outage affected more than 19,000 U.S. users on Sunday, according ​to outage tracking ⁠website Downdetector.com. The outage lasted about 45 minutes ​and ⁠was largely resolved…

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General relativity survives its most rigorous single-event test yet

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General relativity survives its most rigorous single-event test yet

This artwork imagines the event designated GW250114, which produced the clearest gravitational wave signal the LIGO instruments have detected to date. | Photo Credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)/LVK/URI On January 14, 2025, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGOs) recorded a cosmic tremor unlike any before. Named GW250114, the signal was the ‘loudest’ gravitational wave scientists had…

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IIT-Gn team builds precise sieve for industry with molecular ‘donuts’

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IIT-Gn team builds precise sieve for industry with molecular ‘donuts’

Ultra-precise “POMbranes” sieve out larger molecules (red) and allow only 1-nm species (green) to pass through, enabling sharp molecular sorting. | Photo Credit: CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute, Bhavnagar Imagine trying to filter sand from pebbles using a fishing net: it won’t work because the holes are too big and uneven. In chemistry,…

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‘Gorillas are what we want to be’: conservation leader Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

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‘Gorillas are what we want to be’: conservation leader Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Uganda’s history with mountain gorillas is inseparable from its political turmoil. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are restricted to Central Africa and number around a thousand individuals. They inhabit dense volcanic, bamboo, and montane forests at elevations of 2,200-4,300 m. Yet from Uganda’s independence in 1962 through Milton Obote’s centralisation, Idi Amin’s brutal dictatorship, and…

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Budget 2026-27: Space budget recovers but misses crucial private sector reforms

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Budget 2026-27: Space budget recovers but misses crucial private sector reforms

Union Budget 2026-27 The Indian space program has moved out of its post-pandemic slump and is entering a phase of sustained, if also cautious, consolidation. Since 2012-2013, the national space budget has grown by 182%. This sounds massive but most of the growth actually happened in the last decade, especially between 2014 and 2019. Allocations…

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Dedicated rare earth corridors in TN, Kerala, would promote mining: CII

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Dedicated rare earth corridors in TN, Kerala, would promote mining: CII

Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Industry body CII on Sunday (February 1, 2026) welcomed the Union Budget proposal to establish dedicated rare earth corridors in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha stating it would help India’s leadership in rare earth magnets. The Union Budget 2026 proposal towards establishment of Rare…

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