ISRO carries out successful Gaganyaan main parachute test NEW DELHI: In another big step towards India’s first human spaceflight mission, Isro has successfully conducted a key test on the main parachutes for the crew module of the Gaganyaan programme. The test was carried out at Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) drop zone in…
Elon Musk takes a swipe at Tom Holland, calls him a ‘cuck’ over The Odyssey, sparks confusion over the Spider-Man actor Elon Musk has once again found himself at the centre of controversy after insulting historian Tom Holland over his praise for Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming film The Odyssey. The billionaire’s post quickly sparked confusion online,…
Porbandar: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Navy crashed into an open field at Dharampur village during a training sortie shortly after taking off from an air enclave, near Porbandar, Gujarat. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: An uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) Drishti-10 crashed near Porbandar in Gujarat during a training sortie on Wednesday afternoon,…
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined. That discovery changed the course of…
NEW DELHI: In a significant step towards building the country’s first indigenously designed light transport aircraft, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), India’s premier research and development agency for aviation, has completed the design phase of the 19-seater Saras MkII aircraft.Announcing the development in a post on X, space, science and technology minister Jitendra Singh called it…
NEW DELHI: India’s higher education system is still expanding, but the latest numbers suggest it is not expanding fast enough to make the National Education Policy’s 50% Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) target by 2035 look comfortably within reach.The education ministry’s All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2023-24 report, released on Wednesday along with the…
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Zakir Ganai, was killed in Shopian after a six-day operation SRINAGAR: Security forces in J&K shot dead “category A” Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zakir Ganie during a gunfight in Shopian district’s Chanapora Wednesday, nearly 10 months after the last such encounter in the region.The joint operation by J&K Police, the Army and CRPF was launched…
SRINAGAR: The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was never in the interest of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, chief minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said, backing the suspension of the treaty by India.“We opposed the Indus Water Treaty from day one. We stated that if there was any biggest betrayal of India and Pakistan with Jammu…
Emmys 2026 nominations (Image Credits IMDb) The 78th Emmy Awards nominations are finally out, offering an ideal mix of fan-favourite debuts, deserving artists who stood out for their work, and returning veterans. Announced on Wednesday morning by Emmy winners Liza Colón-Zayas (‘The Bear’) and Jeff Hiller (‘Somebody Somewhere’), the nominations have already sparked plenty of…
Image Credit: Esa Kapila, via Aalto University’s LinkedIn Artificial intelligence is now fast becoming an important component in scientific investigations, and its recent achievement may have very significant effects on the advancement of technology. Scientists devised a way to utilise artificial intelligence in scientific research, which has not only resulted in the discovery of two…