Balasore (Odisha): Four flight trials of high-speed expendable aerial target ‘ABHYAS’ were successfully carried out by the DRDO from the Integrated Test Range at Odisha’s Chandipur between January 30 and February 2, official sources said. The trials were conducted with four different mission objectives in a revised robust configuration using a single booster designed by Advanced…
Mumbai: Technology giant Microsoft’s country head Puneet Chandok on Wednesday said India is a “credible” and “unstoppable” force now. Speaking at an event on artificial intelligence organised by the company, Chandok, who is the president at Microsoft India and South Asia, said 100 new startups are getting incorporated in the country everyday. The comments come…
Hyderabad: The city-based Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG) has set yet another milestone by developing the Hemospray technology for stopping upper GI bleeding. Thus they have become the first in India, to accomplish this unique and innovative treatment. AIG Hospitals indeed is one of the World’s largest Gastrointestinal (GI) Centre of Excellence. This cutting-edge endoscopic spray stops…
New York: Google might have fired over a thousand employees in the week since January 10, but CEO Sundar Pichai has told his employees to brace for more layoffs through 2024. The Verge reported this on Wednesday, citing an internal memo. The reason Pichai mentioned in the memo were ambitious goals and a need to invest…
Pune: `Ugram’, an assault rifle developed by the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) in collaboration with a private firm was launched on Monday, officials said. The weapon, developed at the Armament Research and Development Establishments (ARDE), the DRDO’s Pune-based laboratory, is designed to meet the Indian Army’s `GSQR’ (General Staff Qualitative Requirement) of a…
New Delhi: When Narayana Murthy once visited the US for client work during the initial days of Infosys, a temperamental American businessman made him sleep on a large box in a windowless storeroom surrounded by cartons though his own home had four bedrooms. Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has come out with a biography covering…
New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Wireless Personal Area Network as also Wireless Local Area Network (WPAN/WLAN) registration to all entities engaged in such businesses. DoT has said that non-compliance may lead to withdrawal or disconnection of telecom resources obtained from the authorised telecom licensees. Accordingly, it said, all…
New Delhi: India demonstrated the capability of the Akash missile system to engage four aerial targets simultaneously at a range of 25 kilometres, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said on Sunday. It said India became the first country to have such a capability using a single firing unit. “India became the first country to…
San Francisco/New Delhi: India and the US have signed an agreement to promote innovation through increasing cooperation among startups, address regulatory hurdles, and share best practices on fundraising by entrepreneurs, an official statement said on Wednesday. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) on enhancing innovation ecosystems through an innovation handshake under the framework of India-US Commercial…
New Delhi: India is unlikely to go in for hyperloop technology for ultra high-speed trains in the near future as the technology is at a ‘very low level’ of maturity and may not be economically viable at the current juncture, NITI Aayog Member V K Saraswat said on Sunday. Saraswat, who is heading a committee to…
