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IIT-K’s Nano Drone Can Change Recce Game For Armed Forces

  KANPUR (UTTAR PRADESH): An engineer of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur has developed a nano “stealth drone” which could boost defence forces’ reconnaissance capabilities. The drone, which weighs just 239 grams, has been developed by aerospace engineer Vasanth. As per the government’s Drone Rules 2021, unmanned aircraft systems weighing less than 250 […]

EXC: No Internet, No Worry: India’s Digital Rupee To Transact Offline

  NEW DELHI: Can you pay someone digitally even if you don’t have access to the Internet? Well, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exploring possibilities of designing India’s upcoming digital currency in such a way that it can be transacted even when you don’t have access to the Internet. A senior official closely […]

IIT-Kanpur Develops Budget Smartwatch For Blind

  KANPUR: In his childhood, Prof Siddhartha Panda would often wonder how he could help his visually-impaired cousin live life with more ease. Nearly 35 years later, he met another man, a researcher with a similar mission. Together, they made a haptic smartwatch that could be a boon for people with impaired vision. Prof Panda […]

Tarun Vijay To Inaugurate Dalit Lit Fest In Nagpur

  NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand BJP leader and Chairman of National Monuments Authority, Tarun Vijay will inaugurate the prestigious Marathi Literature festival on Social Harmony in Nagpur, Maharashtra on July 2. This is the 19th edition of the literature festival which involves Dalit authors and non-Dalit creative writers whose writings are focused on promoting social harmony. […]

Electric Scooters: Haryana-Based Okinawa, Ather Top Charts; Accident-Prone Ola Sinks

NEW DELHI: Cab-hailing service Ola’s two-wheeler electric vehicle (EV) is bracing up for a more serious storm as Haryana-based Okinawa – another manufacturer of EV scooters – has left it behind in the number of sales, selling 4,000 more units this year till June this week. Okinawa Autotech has taken over both Bhavish Aggarwal’s Ola […]

UP’s Largest-Ever Budget Focuses On Youth, Employment & Infrastructure Development

  LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh finance minister Suresh Khanna on Thursday presented the state’s largest-ever budget of Rs 6.15 lakh crore, with a major thrust on employment, skill development and start-ups. In his 90-minute budget speech that was interspersed with chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’, Khanna said that the unemployment rate had fallen to 2.9 per […]

Trump To Be Back On Twitter, Suspension Be Reversed: Elon Musk

NEW DELHI: Micro-blogging website Twitter’s largest shareholder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that he would restore former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, while also calling the ban on him during then CEO Jack’s tenure as “morally wrong” and “flat out stupid”. “I told Jack Dorsey about this. He and I are of […]

Widen All State, District Roads To At Least 2 Lane: UP PWD Minister Jitin Prasada

LUCKNOW: In a major infrastructure push that is expected to ease transportation and movement, Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Jitin Prasada on Friday instructed senior officials to prepare an action plan to widen all state and district roads to at least two lanes in the next five years. In a review meeting attended by Minister […]

BJP-Ruled North Delhi MCD To Demolish Illegal Structures In Jahangirpuri

  DELHI: BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation is going to carry out a two-day anti-encroachment drive in Jahangirpuri area where violent clashes broke out allegedly following stone-pelting on Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra on Saturday. The encroachment removal drive will be conducted on Wednesday and Thursday. The development was confirmed by a letter from the MCD […]

No Talk With Muslims Of G, C Blocks Prevented Clash This Long: Jahangirpuri Locals

  NEW DELHI: At a ration shop near Kushal Chowk, barely 200 meters away from the mosque where the communal clash during Saturday’s Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra broke out in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, Amit Kumar, is charitable in his comments over harmony between Hindus and Muslims. But, with a pause and some caution, he has a […]

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