The space technology startup TeamIndus has announced the launch of Lab2Moon, a competition to challenge young minds across the globe to think beyond our planet and create an experiment to fly on board the TeamIndus spacecraft to the Moon in 2017. TeamIndus is the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, and with this announcement, marks the first non-government experiment to fly to the moon since 1976. With the new Lab2Moon competition,... 

New Delhi: Strongly condemning the attack on Istanbul airport, American Ambassador Richard Verma said on Wednesday that the US would continue to work with partners, including India, to defeat terrorism. “Let me take a moment to discus the horrendous event that took place in Istanbul last night. The United States condemns in the strongest terms the attack on the Ataturk International Airport,” Verma said. “Our heartfelt condolences... 

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today cleared the Seventh Pay Commission that would hike the salaries and allowances for over one crore central government employees and pensioners by at least 23.5 per cent. Implementation of new pay scales recommended by the 7th Pay Commission is estimated to put an additional burden of Rs. 1.02 lakh crore on the exchequer annually or nearly 0.7 per cent of GDP. The hike, however is the lowest in last seven decades. The... 

The missile is a product of joint venture between India and Israel. BALASORE: India is likely to test launch a newly-developed surface-to-air missile developed jointly with Israel from a defence base off Odisha coast today. “Preparation for the maiden test has reached final stage and if weather permits it will be conducted from the Integerated Test Range (ITR) tomorrow,” said an official of the ITR at Chandipur, about 15 km from Balasore. The... 

JUBA: The world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, has cancelled its fifth independence celebrations as it struggles to end a civil war that has left thousands dead and ravaged the economy, the government said on Tuesday. The IMF has warned the economy is in ruins with soaring inflation at almost 300 per cent and the currency slumping by 90 per cent this year. “We decided not to celebrate the July 9 Independence Day, because we don’t... 

Republicans accuse the Barack Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses. WASHINGTON: Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee faulted the Obama administration today in a report on the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The panel’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, and other Republicans accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses. Democrats say the panel’s... 

WASHINGTON: The US has welcomed India joining as the 35th member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), saying New Delhi has demonstrated “a sustained commitment to nonproliferation”. India became the 35th member of the global anti-proliferation bloc. Elizabeth Trudeau, director, Press Office, at the US State Department, to a question also said that all the MTCR members, including the US, agreed that India’s membership... 

The latest editorial piece in Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece has targeted Modi for not fulfilling  the promises he made during the election campaign in 2014. Narendra Modi had promised to reclaim black money during his election campaign in 2014. In a fresh editorial piece, Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana raised some crucial issues which were promised before the 2014 General Elections by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the piece, Sena lashed out... 

Well, England just exited the Football Euro Cup. British politicians, political commentators, journalists, EU diplomats, investment bankers, credit rating agencies, Nobel Prize economists, the IMF and even the World Bank are shocked and up in arms against the result. File image of David Cameron. How could it happen despite arguing against it over the past few months? Most refuse to believe it actually happened. Surely, the rules of the game need... 

Executive claims Surface Phone will be category innovating Microsoft has been rumoured to be working on the Surface Phone for quite some time now,and it is expected to unveil it in early 2017. Now, the company’s Corporate VP of Windows Kevin Gallo has shed some more light on what Microsoft has in mind when it comes to its future smartphone offering – thought to be the much-awaited Surface Phone. Gallo told The Register that the next...