Sci-Tech

Chennai: After marking a humble beginning in the Indian space programme with a tiny rocket supplied by the United States, ISRO would launch a 6,500 kg communication satellite built by the US in the next couple of months, the chairman of the space agency, V...

New Delhi: India's annual defence production has reached an all-time high of Rs 1,50,590 crore in 2024-25, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Saturday. This marks a growth of around 18 per cent over the previous fiscal's total of Rs 1.27 lakh crore. Under the leadership...

New Delhi: Electric passenger vehicle retail sales jumped 93 per cent year-on-year in July, led by Tata Motors, the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) said Friday. Total electric passenger vehicle registrations rose to 15,528 units last month as compared with 8,037 units in the...

New Delhi: India, currently OpenAI's second-largest market, could soon become its largest globally, CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday as the company unveiled its next-generation model, GPT-5, which will be available free to all users. Hailing India as an "incredibly fast-growing" market, Altman noted the remarkable...

New Delhi: As part of its digital transformation under IT 2.0, India Post has undertaken a massive nationwide rollout of the Advanced Postal Technology (APT) application, the Ministry of Communication said Wednesday. This transition from the legacy system marks a major step toward delivering faster,...

New Delhi: The production of electronics goods in the country saw six-time growth in the last 11 years -- from Rs 1.9 lakh crore in 2014-15 to Rs 11.3 lakh crore in 2024-25, as exports surged eight times from Rs 38,000 crore to Rs 3.27...

Da Nang (Vietnam): Over 84,000 online gaming account user details were leaked in India in 2024, the global cybersecurity and digital privacy company Kaspersky Tuesday said. The maximum number of leaks of gaming account user details was witnessed in Thailand, the minimum such instances were...

New Delhi: The Indian services sector growth touched an 11 month high in July, supported by a pickup in new exports orders and sharp rise in overall sales, a monthly survey said Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index was at...

Arindam Ganguly, OP Bhubaneswar: Odisha stands as ‘aspirant’ in NITI Aayog’s first India Electric Mobility Index (IEMI) 2024, which evaluates performance of states and UTs across three themes. In its report, the premier policy think tank evaluated all states and UTs in terms of 16...

New Delhi: Moody's Ratings Monday said curtailed access to the US market will diminish prospects for India to develop its manufacturing sector, but the country's domestic demand will remain resilient to these external pressures. US President Donald Trump has announced a 25 per cent duty...