India Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman S Somanath on Saturday expressed satisfaction at the successful insertion of Aditya L-1 into the halo orbit around Lagrange Point 1 (L1) and said it was the “end of a long journey”. He added that the solar mission has reached its “final point” 126 days after lift-off. #WATCH | … Read more
Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Russian private mercenary group Wagner. | Photo Credit: Reuters With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover With Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, successfully landing on the surface of moon on Wednesday, the focus has now moved to the rover in its belly, Pragyan. Years of … Read more
Wall Street fell on Tuesday as evidence of a cooling economy exacerbated worries that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to rein in decades-high inflation may cause a deep downturn. All three major stock indexes were lower at mid-day after data showed US job openings in February dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years, suggesting … Read more
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after the satellite launch company failed to secure the long-term funding needed to help it recover from a January rocket failure. The Long Beach, California-based company lodged the filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware seeking a sale of … Read more
“Well I am first an Indian citizen and then a tech entrepreneur so therefore I would want India to make tremendous progress, not just in IT but in every sector,” says NR Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys.What about manufacturing as an industry because a lot of people are saying that manufacturing is positioned the way services … Read more
Indian equities might advance on Monday, snapping their three-day losing run, after the US markets rallied on Friday, cheering the lower than-expected jobs data in December and the contraction of the country’s services industry activity during the month. Analysts, however, do not expect a rally to sustain for long as traders will be tempted to … Read more
“There are no two thoughts about it. Everybody is agreeing how equity investors are going to make it. So one has to believe in equities and it is a proven thing to make long-term wealth. There is nothing like equity. I think it is going to be a wonderful year from that perspective,” says Porinju … Read more
Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it will launch a training program with the goal of sending its own astronauts, including a woman, into space next year. The kingdom is actively promoting science and technology as part of its wide-ranging Vision 2030 plan to overhaul its economy and reduce its dependency on oil. The plan, championed … Read more
The correction in domestic equity markets has remained a key concern for investors. Benchmark indices BSE Sensex and Nifty have plunged more than 10 per cent in the first half of 2022. The pain is more severe for broader markets where the midcap index has plunged more than 13 per cent, while the smallcap index … Read more
The successful experiment marks an important breakthrough in China’s technology to reuse spacecraft, which would provide the country more convenient and cheaper space round-trips for it to use the space in a peaceful way, Xinhua said. Source link