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Elon Musk in Twitter: According to a regulatory filing Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought a 9.2 percent interest in Twitter, totaling 73.5 million shares. Mr. Musk’s Twitter holding is classified as a passive investment, … Read more
Three Russian cosmonauts arrived on Friday at the International Space Station wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, which appeared to match the Ukrainian flag. The men were the space station’s first new arrivals since … Read more
A lawsuit filed on Friday accuses Google of systemic racial bias against Black employees, alleging that the search engine giant directs them to lower-level positions, pays them less, and denies them advancement opportunities due to … Read more
Researchers from India’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) and Australia’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have developed a mathematical model that predicts how COVID-19 vaccination antibodies confer protection against symptomatic illnesses. Nature Computational Science published the … Read more
On February 28, National Science Day (NSD) will be held to honor Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman’s discovery of the Raman Effect. In the year 1930, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery. The … Read more
India and France are close to finalizing a deal for the cooperative development of a 125KN engine for the indigenous fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) in construction. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) … Read more
On February 21, 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) released a draft policy proposal titled “Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy, 2022.” The policy aims to “dramatically transform India’s capacity for … Read more
A new report from a Beijing-based cybersecurity firm says hackers associated with the US National Security Agency (NSA) were found to have placed “covert backdoors” that may have given them access to sensitive information in … Read more
According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS), a payload on board the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, has discovered solar proton events that considerably increase the radiation exposure to humans … Read more
Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft has hailed India’s vaccine manufacturing capabilities and the efforts of the country’s producers to sell affordable vaccines to the rest of the globe. Mr. Gates stated … Read more