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NASA Resumes Voyages To The Moon

Half a century after America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration stopped sending rockets to the moon, NASA's unmanned Artemis I mission lifted off from launch complex 39-B at Cape......

Biden signs significant US gun control law

United States President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a bipartisan gun safety bill in order to prevent the access of firearms to dangerous people and to invest in new mental health across......

China says Musk's SpaceX satellites had 2 close encounters with its space station

China on Tuesday alleged that US billionaire Elon Musk-owned SpaceX's satellites had two 'close encounters' with its space station in orbit, and has complained to the United Nations about the......

What's Raja Chari Doing In Space?

The mission was scheduled for October 31, but one of the astronauts fell sick (neither NASA or SpaceX will say who), so the flight was rescheduled, weather in the often turbulent Florida area......

Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin crew successfully completes spaceflight

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his crew successfully completed a spaceflight on Tuesday morning (local time). They were flying on the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company,......

Need to scale up and ramp down H-1B visas: Senator

In less than a week of Donald Trump being sworn in as the 45th US President, the "H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act" was introduced to prioritise American workers and restore fairness in visa programmes......

'Indian talent must for US' leadership in innovation'

The single greatest empowerment to our economic growth as we continue to move towards three per cent or four per cent GDP growth will be the resources that we need to fill hi-tech jobs, advanced......

War on fraud: US firms to pay $1 bn fine

As the US government intensified its crackdown on corporate fraud, America's leading investment banks and brokerage houses have announced they will pay a hefty fine totalling $1billion to settle......

'I was attacked for being anti-national'

'What the film shows is an India, which was headed in a completely different direction than where we are headed.' IMAGE: Anand Patwardhan with his mother Nirmala and father Balu in the documentary......

The 10 BEST SONGS of 2020

Sukanya Verma lists her favourite songs of the year. 2020 was a year of mayhem, not music. A bunch of tuneful treats though made the rough ride a little less agonizing. The Hindi film music scene......

How COVID-19 was born: The real story

Even now, the world knows less about the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 within China than anywhere else.76 Days is an attempt to fill some of those blanks.Indira Kannan reports from Toronto.......

Review: Rajma Chawal is comfortably dumb

'Wasn't there a single person below 30 in the whole production team? I wondered aloud at different points in the narrative,' notes Sreehari Nair. While watching Leena Yadav's Netflix film Rajma......

The Revenant, Mad Max, Star Wars sweep Oscar nominations

The nominations for the 88th Annual Academy awards were announced by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, directors Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee, and actor John Krasinski at the Academy's......

Indonesia Masters: Sen, Saina in second round; Srikanth exits

IMAGE: Seventh-seeded Lakshya Sen will take on Malaysia's Ng Tze Yong in the second round of the Indonesia Masters Super 500 badminton tournament. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images H......

India Open: Axelsen, Yamaguchi through to semi-finals

Two-time world champions Viktor Axelsen and Akane Yamaguchi stayed in contention for second successive titles after progressing to the semifinals of the men's singles and women's singles......

'Nobody recognised me'

IMAGE: Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli. Photograph: Virat Kohli/Instagram Virat Kohli revealed how he visited a well-known bakery in Bengaluru in March to get Anushka Sharma her favourite......

Sindhu, Srikanth move to second round of German Open

IMAGE: It was Sindhu's 15th win over the World No. 11 Thai player, Busanan Ongbamrungphan. Photograph: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters Top Indian shuttlers, including double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu......

World C'ships: Prannoy stuns Lin Dan to advance

IMAGE: HS Prannoy has now beaten Lin Dan in three of their five meetings. Photograph: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images Indian shuttler H S Prannoy stunned multiple-time Olympic and world champion Lin......

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