The company today said that it will be offering a discount of ₹10,000 on all models of its The Serif smart TV that was launched in India last month at a starting price of ₹83,900. Samsung today announced that it will be offering lucrative deals and discounts on the purchase […]
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Hong Kong: An “SOS” message written on the beach of a tiny Pacific island pointed rescuers to three missing mariners, United States and Australian authorities said Tuesday. The three men had set out in a 23-foot (7 meter) boat last Thursday to make a 26-mile (42 kilometer) journey from Pulawat […]
Vodafone Idea has let go off around 1,200 – 1,500 permanent employees since May 2020 in a bid to cut its operational costs. Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) has laid off nearly 1,500 employees from across the country in a bid to cut its costs. The move follows an earlier decision […]
Saving the giant panda is one of the big success stories of conservation. Decades of efforts to create protected habitat for the iconic bear has pulled it back from the brink of extinction. But, according to a new study, while many other animals in the same landscape have benefited from […]
A new campaign called “Badvertising” is demanding an immediate end to adverts for large polluting cars. It says the government should clamp down on sports utility vehicle (SUV) car adverts in the way it curbed smoking ads. A car industry spokesperson said modern SUVs are the cleanest in history, and […]
WASHINGTON: America’s first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday (Aug 2), splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful mission, carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once […]
Official figures from Brazil have shown a big increase in the number of fires in the Amazon region in July compared with the same month last year. Satellite images compiled by Brazil’s National Space Agency revealed there were 6,803 – a rise of 28%. President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged agricultural […]
WASHINGTON: The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday (Aug 1) with two US astronauts on board, beginning their journey back to Earth despite a storm threatening Florida. NASA footage showed the capsule drifting slowly away from the ISS in the darkness of space, closing […]
The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are due to return on Sunday (Aug 2) after a two-month voyage that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. WASHINGTON: The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International […]
ABU DHABI: The oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Saturday (Aug 1) announced the startup of its Barakah nuclear power plant, a first for the Arab world. “UAE first nuclear reactor at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has achieved first criticality and successfully started up,” tweeted Hamad Alkaabi, the country’s representative […]