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NEW DELHI: India’s private space sector will soon take wings as spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace is just days ahead from becoming the country’s first private player to launch an orbital-class rocket, fully designed and developed by it, from Indian soil.After sending India’s first private single-stage suborbital rocket Vikram-S at a peak altitude of 89.5 km…
A member of the NT Legislative Scrutiny Committee claims opponents of the government’s child protection reforms are putting the pride of adults before the safety of children, ahead of the bill returning to parliament next week. First-term government backbencher Clinton Howe is a member of the scrutiny committee that recently published its report into the…
NEW DELHI: A day after a report of alleged breach of sensitive data of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KNPP), space, atomic energy, science and technology minister Jitendra Singh asserted on Thursday that there was no breach of sensitive data from the largest nuclear power plant of the country.Rubbishing reports of breach of sensitive data…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is sticking to encouraging low-altitude military flyovers after a fighter jet buzzed a Florida beach during a show this week, raising new scrutiny after the Pentagon has dismissed a series of safety reviews of such flights. In the latest maneuver, video spreading widely on social media shows a jet…
Jason Day felt he should have been well in the red figures, Min Woo Lee ended up having to applaud his own gritty streak, and Adam Scott must have found it a tough old birthday slog. Yet at the end of a day of what might have been for Australia’s seven-strong contingent at the 154th…
File photo: Ships in Hormuz NEW DELHI: India’s maritime regulator, Directorate General of Shipping, has directed shipowners, ship managers and recruitment and placement service (RPS) agencies to avoid deploying Indian seafarers on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz until further orders, reports Dipak Dash.The regulator issued the advisory Wednesday night after recent incidents involving attacks…
An isolated community 500 kilometres south-east of Perth fears for the future of its school as the community struggles to retain teachers. Munglinup farmer and parent Matt Bell said the primary school, which has 12 students, was vital to keeping the community viable. The farming town resides in the state’s south and has a population…
NEW DELHI: In an important clarification to its two-year-old judgement against ‘bulldozer justice’, Supreme Court said its ruling does not bar use of bulldozers to remove rampant illegal constructions and encroachments on public land following compliance with the procedure laid down in municipal laws.Refusing to adjudicate individual contempt petitions alleging demolition of houses, mosques and…
Rideshare giant Uber has reversed its decision to impose a $5 fee on passengers requiring extra assistance, after advocates and service providers labelled it discriminatory and a “disability tax”. Last month, the ABC reported the company started charging extra for its Assist service in May, telling customers the move was to improve reliability and reduce…
A critical piece of the “defining technological achievement” of the 20th century will be at the centre of Powerhouse Parramatta’s opening exhibition. Weighing 4.5 tonnes, boilerplate #1224 was a test command module used for the Apollo space program that landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. The boilerplate was subjected to 102 ignition…