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A federal judge rejected an emergency request on Tuesday to stop billionaire Elon Musk and his department of government efficiency (DOGE) from firing federal employees and accessing agency data.This move bolstered US President Donald Trump’s plan to cut government spending, as he called for large-scale reductions across several departments and agencies. Thousands have already lost…
NEW DELHI: In its quest for self-reliance within the space sector, Isro has announced the successful development of a 10-tonne ‘vertical planetary mixer’, the largest of its kind for solid propellants globally. This innovative equipment has been designed and manufactured in collaboration with the Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) in Bengaluru.Solid propulsion plays a crucial…
KOLKATA: A Pocso court in Kolkata on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for raping a seven-month-old infant on Nov 30 last year and leaving her fighting for life, terming the case “rarest of rare”.“There cannot be any other punishment that the court can think of,” judge Indrila Mukherjee Mitra said in her verdict…
Netflix CCO Bela Bajaria presents at the company’s 2024 upfront event Netflix is making waves again, and this time, it’s setting its sights on the biggest prize in live sports—the NFL’s Sunday afternoon games. The streaming giant is reportedly interested in bidding for the rights to these highly coveted matchups, potentially taking over from longtime…
NEW DELHI: Canva – one of the world’s top graphic design software companies and a key competitor to Adobe – saw as many as 5.3 lakh presentations being made daily in India just in 2024. The usage was equally big when it came to making resumes, social media posts, or even pitch decks.Cameron Adams, co-founder…
NEW DELHI: Led by record production of iPhones, India’s mobile phone exports surged nearly 50% in the first 10 months of this financial year with the value of shipments estimated at Rs 1.5 lakh crore during April-Jan, compared with Rs 1 lakh crore in same period last year.The surge has been primarily led by a…
The TOI correspondent from London: Fugitive Indian businessman Vijay Mallya’s barrister told a London court that the banks pursuing Mallya are “acting in bad faith” and not being transparent as he made a failed attempt to adjourn Mallya’s appeal hearing against his bankruptcy order in the London high court on the first day of its…
Oman vs USA (@usacricket on X) NEW DELHI: The United States successfully defended the lowest-ever total of 122 in a non-curtailed ODI match, defeating Oman by 57 runs in their Cricket World Cup League 2 encounter. This total stands as one of the lowest successfully defended scores in men’s ODIs, excluding matches with a revised…
Devendra Fadnavis (File photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Davendra Fadnavis on Tuesday directed the state cyber police to approach Wikipedia to remove “objectionable” content about Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, son of the revered Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.Fadnavis said distortion of history on open-source platforms such as Wikipedia would not be tolerated. “I have asked…
After spending over eight months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth on March 19, 2025. The two astronauts have been stranded in space since June last year due to technical issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was supposed to…