Updated: Jan 14th, 2026 The Israel Foreign Ministry has announced that Israel has cut ties with multiple United Nations agencies and international organisations, citing a decision taken after the United States withdrew from dozens of global bodies. In a statement shared on social media platform X, the ministry said that following a review prompted by...
Updated: Dec 24th, 2025 In yet another historic feat, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully launched LVM3-M6 rocket, carrying United States’ new generation BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite. “Mission Success. The LVM3-M6 mission has successfully placed the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into its intended orbit,” said ISRO in an X post. The communication satellite,...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday said it is ready to launch the BlueBird Block-2 satellite on December 24. The launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center will place the BlueBird Block-2 satellite, also referred to as BlueBird-6, in Low Earth Orbit. BlueBird communications satellite, developed by the US-based AST SpaceMobile, will be...
Updated: Dec 22nd, 2025 Scientists at the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could change how we understand and treat cancer, and also pave the way for personalised therapies, the Ministry of Science and Technology said on Wednesday. The framework, developed in collaboration with Ashoka University,...
Updated: Dec 12th, 2025 Meta India on Friday announced the appointment of Aman Jain as its new Head of Public Policy. He will take charge early next year and will report to Simon Milner, Meta’s Vice President of Policy for the Asia Pacific region. Jain will also join the company’s India leadership team as part...
Updated: Dec 8th, 2025 Image: Phys.org A reexamination of ancient Chinese records has helped scientists resolve a 2,700-year-old astronomical puzzle and produce new estimates of how fast Earth rotated in 709 BCE. The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, combine historical geography with modern eclipse modelling to reinterpret what is considered the earliest datable...
Updated: Dec 24th, 2025 Pakistan has finalised one of its largest-ever defence export agreements, signing a multi-billion-dollar arms deal with forces based in eastern Libya, as per reports. The agreement is being seen as a significant step in Islamabad’s efforts to strengthen defence exports and move towards a more self-reliant, export-driven economy. According to reports,...
Updated: Dec 2nd, 2025 Scientists may have detected the first direct signature of dark matter, nearly 100 years after Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky first proposed its existence. A new study by Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), suggests that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space...
US President Donald Trump unveiled plans to begin construction of a new class of massive battleships as part of a broader effort to rebuild US shipbuilding capacity, strengthen deterrence, and restore what he described as American military supremacy. “Today, I get the great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy...
Updated: Nov 27th, 2025 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reported encouraging signs of recovery in the Antarctic ozone layer, which reached an estimated annual peak of 8.83 million square miles on September 9. While still substantial, scientists noted that this year’s ozone hole is smaller than in many earlier years...