Cairo, July 25: The world’s largest solar powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2 has left the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on the last leg of its round-the-world tour, the BBC reported on Sunday. According to officials, the solar powered aircraft should take about 48 hours to reach Abu Dhabi – the place it began the circumnavigation in […]

New Delhi, July 25: Indian coffee production is likely to decline by around 8 per cent in the current fiscal owing to lack of timely rains, parliament was told on Monday. “It has been estimated that there is a likelihood of decline in Indian coffee production in 2016-17 by 8 per cent compared to that […]

New Delhi, July 25: Aimed at curbing call drops, 48,000 new telecom sites have been set up across the country by various operators as part of a 100-day plan which they committed to the government earlier. “They assured that the target for the 100-day programme, as committed to the (telecom) secretary, will be met. They indicated […]

New Delhi, July 25: Cricketer-turned-BJP politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday said he relinquished his Rajya Sabha membership as he was repeatedly being “asked to stay away from Punjab” which he was not prepared to do.“I resigned from Rajya Sabha because I was told to not turn towards Punjab and stay away from Punjab… Why should […]

New York, July 25: Verizon Communications, the largest US wireless communications service provider, was set to acquire Yahoo’s ailing core internet business for about $4.8 billion on Monday. The deal will allow Verizon to get Yahoo’s online assets including search, mail and instant messaging, along with its ad technology and land holdings, tech website Quartz reported. […]

Rio de Janeiro, July 25: An emergency task force of more than 500 workers has been contracted to fix problems at the Rio 2016 Olympic village, organisers said. The announcement came on Sunday after the Australian team refused to move into the complex, citing issues such as “blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring,” reports […]

New Delhi, July 25: A total of 174 villages in 12 states were electrified during the last week under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna, an official said here on Monday. “Of the total electrified villages, 15 are in Assam, 12 in Arunachal Pradesh, 82 in Meghalaya, 18 in Jharkhand, 15 in Bihar, 11 […]

London, July 25: Diabetes may be due to the failure of a privileged few cells, rather than the behaviour of all cells, suggests new research. “This study is interesting as it suggests that failure of a handful of cells may lead to diabetes,” said co-lead researcher Guy Rutter from Imperial College London. Type-2 diabetes occurs when […]

New York, July 25: A new megaraptorid dinosaur species discovered in Argentina’s Patagonia Desert may help scientists find out the evolutionary origins of the megaraptorids represented by Megaraptor, Orkoraptor and Aerosteon. The Patagonian region of Argentina has previously proven to be rich in fossils from the late Cretaceous epoch, including a number of megaraptorids whose […]

New Delhi, July 25: Big data analytics company Teradata on Monday announced the acquisition of London-based firm Big Data Partnership to broaden its open source analytics services across international marketplace, including in Asia. “Big Data Partnership brings exciting new capabilities and broadens our analytic services portfolio, enhancing Think Big’s expertise and giving our customers more choices […]