AUGUST 4, 2018
India has become the third Asian country after Japan and South Korea to get the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) status after the US issued a federal notification to this effect, paving the way for high-technology product sales to New Delhi, particularly in civil space and defence sectors.
India is the 37th country to be designated the STA-1 status...
AUGUST 4, 2018
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho is handed U.S. President Donald Trump's reply to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's letter, by a member of the U.S. delegation at the ASEAN meeting in Singapore on August 4, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Roller-coaster nuclear diplomacy between the United States and North Korea hit highs and lows on Saturday...
AUGUST 4, 2018
Ringing in change: T. Marichamy doing puja at the Ayyappan temple in Madurai.
Marichamy, a first non-Brahmin to come out of a state-run archaka training centre, is a happy man.
It is 12 noon and the small Ayyappan temple in Tallakulam is closing. The bell tolls softly to signal the end of the annadhanam (free) lunch and people slowly...
AUGUST 4, 2018
When @NASA_Orion ventures into deep space, both distance & duration will demand the spacecraft reliably operate far from home, keep astronauts alive and be light enough for @NASA_SLS rocket to launch - NASA
Scientists have identified a whole set of planets where life could have begun just like it did on Earth.
The researchers found that the chances...
AUGUST 4, 2018
India's ambitious mission to the moon piggybacking a lunar rover is postponed once again with a possible lift-off only in 2019. The Chandrayan-2 mission was earlier slated for October 2018 and is now rescheduled because of technical glitches. This delay may now give Israel an opportunity to edge past India with its moon landing.
Israel through a non-profit company...
AUGUST 4, 2018
PV Sindhu entered her second straight BWF World Championship final on Saturday after beating Japan's Akane Yamaguchi.
The Indian badminton ace will now face Spain's Carolina Marin in the final of the World Championship on Sunday.
In a hard-fought battle that lasted for 55 minutes, Sindhu defeated Yamaguchi 21-16, 24-22 in the semi-finals.
The victory also helped the 23-year-old to...
AUGUST 4, 2018
Issues that were affecting Facebook this evening appear to have been fixed.
The number of reports of faults with the platform on Down Detector has dramatically descreased from tens of thousands to a few hundred.
Meanwhile on other social networking sites such as Twitter, people have reported Facebook as working for them once again.
No official statement has been provided...
AUGUST 4, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 287 (Root 80, Bairstow 70, Ashwin 4-62, Shami 3-64) and 180 (Curran 63, Ishant 5-51, Ashwin 3-59) beat India 274 (Kohli 149, Curran 4-74) and 162 (Kohli 51, Stokes 4-40) by 31 runs
Cricket – England v India – First Test – Edgbaston, Birmingham, Britain – August 4, 2018 – Virat Kohli disappointed – Getty...
AUGUST 4, 2018
China is building rockets for its artillery units that will be propelled by “electromagnetic catapult” technology and can be used at high altitude locations in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), state media has reported, indicating the projectiles could be deployed against India.
Describing the innovation as “unprecedented”, the report said the catapult-propelled rockets can hit targets...
AUGUST 4, 2018
India will bring up proposed changes in the US immigration policy, including eligibility for Green Cards and various American visas, at the two-plus-two dialogue between the foreign and defence ministers of the two countries in September, people familiar with the Indian agenda for the talks said.
A total of 306,601 applications filed by Indian nationals for a Green...
