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Preparations are underway for the upcoming launch of Vikram S, India's first privately made rocket, on Friday, at Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre by India's first space startup, Skyroot, said S Somanath, Chairman, Indian Space…

Nykaa did not enter the fashion business to justify its valuation but because it saw a new opportunity to engage with customers, the company’s chief executive Falguni Nayar told us in an interview. Nayar, who was adjudged ‘CEO of the year’…

Mumbai-based ISMC Analog, one of the applicants under a government plan to set up semiconductor fabrication units in the country, is close to sealing a debt deal with a five-bank consortium led by State Bank of India (SBI) for its…

The central government is expected to decide by February which company would build, and which state would house, a semiconductor fabrication plant, said Karnataka's IT minister CN Ashwath Narayan. He was speaking at a curtain raiser on the…

In late April we reported that Flipkart was opening up its logistics arm Ekart to other ecommerce companies. Now Amazon India is following suit with a new vertical called Amazon Shipping. A pilot is underway and the company is expected to…

Recently, astronomers found three asteroids hidden in the Sun's glare. While all three could be potentially dangerous, one of the near-Earth asteroids has been classified as a 'planet killer' and named '2022 AP7'.  In the…

A few years ago, Snap, the parent of photo-sharing app Snapchat, was said to be uninterested in India. Now, with US tech companies in turmoil, Snap is looking to drive up user engagement and advertising revenue by tying up with creators…

With a view to nurture the growing interest of deep space tech startups in India, India Space Congress, 2022 (ISC'22) announced a number of initiatives to showcase excellence by engaging with 'iDEX 75 Space Challenges' which was announced…

Study claims that a powerful solar storm is capable of destroying most satellites orbiting around the Earth. Know how it can affect us. In February 2022, an unprecedented tragedy befell the Elon Musk led SpaceX. It was conducting its…

NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for preventing an asteroid from…