NEW DELHI: At least fourteen Indians were among 717 people killed and over 860 others injured in a stampede on Thursday when Haj pilgrims jostled their way to perform symbolic stoning of the devil in Mina at the holy Mecca, marking the culmination of the annual pilgrimage. HAJ TRAGEDY: MEA helpline numbers for Indians “Our…
Some evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole was discovered by an Indo-American-led team of astronomers from the University of Maryland (UMD) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The mass black hole is said to be about 5,000 times the mass of the Sun and will probably be an additional candidate to the list of…
Washington : The US space agency is seeking innovative ideas from students for generating a novel technology that can help land heavy manned spacecrafts safely and swiftly on the surface of Red Planet. Called inflatable spacecraft heat shields or hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD) technology, this will generate a new class of relatively lightweight deployable…
New Delhi: Ever since the West Bengal government released the top secret files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the debate over the veteran freedom fighter’s mysterious death has intensified further. Researcher and writer of ‘India’s Biggest Cover-up’, Anuj Dhar has come forward with a new theory that Bose might have stayed in China around…
NEW DELHI: Air India could soon be operating the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight. The airline is planning to link the IT hotspots of India and US — Bengaluru and San Francisco (SFO) — which are almost 14,000 km apart. At present the longest nonstop commercial flight is operated by Australian airliner Qantas between Dallas…
Bengaluru: The Indian space agencyISRO is all set to launch its first space observatory ‘Astrosat’ aimed at studying celestial bodies on board a PSLV rocket on September 28. ISRO’s PSLV-C30 will carry the 1.5 ton satellite to place it into a 650-km orbit following its takeoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shriharikota, at 10…
