- Friday, May 02, 2025
TWO spacecraft that would aid ISRO in demonstrating space docking, a critical technology for future space missions got separated successfully and were placed into the desired orbit late on Monday, ISRO said. "PSLV C60 mission accomplished as of SpaDeX spacecraft is considered," said Mission director M Jayakumar. ISRO chief S…
BILLIONAIRE Gautam Adani's group on Monday announced its exit from FMCG joint venture Adani Wilmar by selling its entire stake to the Singaporean partner and in the open market for over $2 billion (£1.59bn) in a first major deal since the US bribery indictment. In a statement, Adani Enterprises Ltd…
AUSTRALIA took seven wickets after tea on day five to win a classic fourth test against India by 184 runs and snatch a 2-1 series lead heading into the final match in Sydney. India were coasting on the back of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant's partnership through the entire middle…
JIMMY CARTER, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as US president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday. He was…
ELON MUSK has received support from President-elect Donald Trump on his stance on H-1B visas, a day after the tech billionaire vowed to "go to war" to defend the programme used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US. Musk, who along with Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has been…
THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has searched the premises of an assistant director of the ED in Shimla, who managed to give a slip to the agency during a trap operation, officials said. The assistant director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) posted at Shimla and his brother Vikas Deep,…
THE PASSING away of former prime minister Manmohan Singh reignited discussions around the 2019 film “The Accidental Prime Minister”. The movie, starring Anupam Kher as Singh and Akshaye Khanna as Sanjay Baru, faced renewed criticism after journalist Vir Sanghvi labelled it “one of the worst Hindi movies ever made” in…
THE MADRAS High Court on Saturday directed constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged sexual assault of a woman student in the Anna University campus in Chennai recently. All three members of the SIT will be women police officers. The court also directed the state government…
BILLIONAIRE Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has acquired technology-driven and oncology-focused healthcare platform Karkinos, which is currently facing insolvency proceedings, for ₹3.75 billion (£34.93m), the firm said on Saturday. Reliance Strategic Business Ventures (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of India's most valuable company, completed the acquisition of Karkinos Healthcare Pvt Ltd with…
MALAYSIAN prime minister Anwar Ibrahim wrote a moving tribute to Manmohan Singh Friday (27), recalling how the Indian leader offered scholarships for his children while he was in prison. On X, he described the former prime minister, who died Thursday, as “the midwife of India’s emergence as one of the…
