While the Orion spacecraft beamed back incredible images of the Earth and the Moon during its closest flyby to the lunar world, not all is well with the mission. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has lost connection with one of its CubeSats launched onboard the Artemis-1 mission. CubeSats OMOTENASHI and…
Weeks, after it completed the construction of its Tiangong space station, the Chinese space agency, is set to launch three taikonauts into space. The Shenzhou-15 mission will be launched onboard the Long March -2F carrier rocket, which was recently brought into open view. While the rocket has been moved to the…
Three successive heatwaves and COVID-19 are likely to have caused more than 10,000 additional deaths in France during this summer, the health ministry said. A total of 10,420 excess deaths were registered between June 1 and Sept. 15 in France’s second hottest summer since 1900, data from the public health agency…
The Indian multilingual microblogging and social networking platform Koo was recently launched in Brazil. In addition, the platform also added language support for Portuguese, making the available in 11 native languages. Within the 48 hours of its launch in Brazil, the app occupied 1 million user downloads, 2 million…
Equity benchmarks ended with gains on Tuesday after falling for the past three days amid buying in index majors Infosys and Reliance Industries. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 274.12 points or 0.45 per cent to settle at 61,418.96. During the day, it jumped 321.79 points or 0.52 per cent to 61,466.63. The broader NSE…
China has locked down a major transportation hub in the south, as the country grapples with its largest Covid outbreak since April. More than 28,000 new infections were reported nationwide – nearing a record high since the pandemic began. Guangdong province and the city of Chongqing logged over 16,000 and…
Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has ended its Maharashtra leg and is all set to enter the Hindi heartland of Madhya Pradesh on November 23. According to senior party leader Jairam Ramesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will join the yatra and will participate for four days when it…
Kamala Harris visited Philippines for a summit recently. Prior to her visit rocket debris was found floating in the disputed sea. Filipino soldiers had the Chinese rocket debris. They were heading towards Pag – Asa Island. But it was alleged a Chinese coast guard vessel had forcibly seized  rocket debris. On…