SpaceX Falcon 9 launches multiple Indian payloads into orbit (representational image) BENGALURU: Multiple Indian payloads, representing four space startups, reached orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off at 12:02 am IST on Friday (October 2) as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission.The mission carried satellites developed by Dhruva Space and TakeMe2Space, along with…
Passengers rush to Flydubai cockpit as plane goes into a dive Flydubai Flight 1073 was in the air when a wounded captain battled his copilot as the aircraft went into a dive, leaving passengers to rush to the cockpit and help regain control of the plane before it landed safely.Video footage showed passengers rushing towards…
Why do people get a day off in Australia? According to one Indian man living there, sometimes the answer is simply: why not have some fun?Aditya Khaneja, who says he has been living in Australia for 10 years, shared a humorous take on how public holidays in the two countries are decided. His Instagram video…
US dollar climbs to 17-month high US dollar seems to be having a good week, climbing to a 17-month high on Friday towards its third straight week of gains. The momentum comes as a global bond rout pushed borrowing costs higher and left the euro facing fresh losses.The dollar index, which measures the US currency…
Classrooms in parts of India are quietly grappling with an underlying problem that no curriculum revision can easily fix. Students raised on on-demand food delivery, constant social media reels and instant AI answers are finding it harder to sustain attention, tolerate boredom, or work toward rewards that don’t arrive at once.Teachers, as a result, are…
Ford CEO Jim Farley has made a clear distinction between the types of jobs artificial intelligence is likely to replace and the ones that will remain dependent on human expertise, arguing that skilled trades workers will largely be protected from the first wave of AI disruption. According to a report by Fortune, speaking during a…
India’s Lovlina Borgohain celebrates after winning a gold-medal bout against China’s Ziyi Bao. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHi: Birthday girl Lovlina Borgohain gave herself the perfect gift on Friday, scripting history by becoming only the second Indian woman boxer to win an Asian Games gold medal after the legendary MC Mary Kom.The 29-year-old Indian defeated China’s…
Dipke calls people to join Shivaji park protest NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is set to hold a “Jail Bharo Andolan” against chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park today, with founder Abhijeet Dipke making a fresh appeal to people to join the protest.In a new video, Dipke was seen…
Four traffic cops in Silchar were suspended for briefly halting an ambulance to clear a path for CM Himanta Biswa Sarma SILCHAR: Four cops managing traffic in south Assam’s Silchar were suspended Thursday for briefly stopping an ambulance ferrying a critically ill patient the previous day to let CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s convoy pass.The action,…
Kankipati Rajesh & Gaurav Dahiya GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat govt on Thursday ordered the compulsory retirement of two mid-level IAS officers — Kankipati Rajesh and Gaurav Dahiya — in a major disciplinary action against officers whose service records had come under scrutiny.Rajesh, a 2011-batch IAS officer, has been under suspension since July 2022 and faces alleged corruption…
