The Centre announced a liberalisation of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)’s affiliation-granting regime on Thursday, with Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar saying that the state government alone would henceforth certify a school's infrastructure while the CBSE w

Bengaluru, Oct 1: Mangalyaan or Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe, completed four years on job on September 24. It was put into the orbit around Mars on this date in 2014 and it achieved a number of feats then. It not only saw India becoming the first country to succeed in Mar

New Delhi: On September 10 the UPSC;s website was hacked - albeit for a few hours and then quickly restored - but hacked none the less. And the culprit has now been apprehended. The mastermind and the hacker, it is now known, is a 17 year old teenages. The 17-year-old teenage boy, accused of hacking

A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials said on Thursday. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, made an early di

WhatsApp has phasing out support for Apple devices running iOS 7 and older, The Mirror reported. This should not affect users who have WhatsApp installed on their device as it will continue to function until 2020. However, users will not be no longer be able to install the app. A new version of What

Elon Musk’s space transportation company SpaceX said it has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the moon aboard its BFR launch vehicle. “Find out who’s flying and why on Monday, September 17,” SpaceX said in a tweet on Thursday.   SpaceX has signed the world’s firs

Nokia 9 is supposed to be the next big flagship from HMD Global, if one goes by all the rumours and leaks. Earlier an image of the Nokia 9 was shared by Slashleaks showing a five camera set up on the phone. Now, another image has come from China, with a five lens set up at the back of the Nokia 9.

Bengaluru, Aug 28: India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 will now be launched between January and February 2019, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said on Tuesday. Sivan informed that the window for launch is in between January 3 to February 16. "In January 2019, we will have a major mission Chandrayaan

The Indian Institute of Technology has decided to consider putting an end to certain ‘unpopular’ courses due to lack of interest shown by students, and growing number of vacant seats in the last few years. Courses like agricultural engineering, biochemical engineering and pharma engineering, have no

India will soon launch a dedicated space and science television channel to make their benefits reach people across the country, a top official said on Sunday. "Within the next three to four months, there will be a television channel launched to reach even the rural parts of India on how space progra

You might soon be able to schedule emails by using the Gmail app, a new report surfaced online suggested. According to Android Police, tech giant Google is said to be working to add a new feature to its Gmail app which will enable Android users to schedule emails. The indication comes after Andro

WhatsApp status update: Under immense pressure from several quarters to control the spread of false news and rumours of horrifying incidents, Whatsapp on Friday announced a new measure to curb it. In a statement, Whatsapp said that it is launching a test to limit forwarding messages to five chats at

India’s telecom regulator has announced new rules that look set to escalate its ongoing battle with Apple. If enforced, the regulation could lead to deactivation of services of iPhone users in the country, unless Apple blinks first in a battle that has been brewing for quite some time. The Teleco

NEW DELHI: National Testing Agency (NTA), a national level examination conducting authority will organise NEET 2019 twice in Computer Based Test mode. According to the Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD), Prakash Javadekar, the NTA has started its work and will be conducting various entranc

Amid the pressure to curb fake news spread over its popular chatting platform, Facebook-owned Whatsapp is in a process of testing a new feature. The company is moving with the idea of adding a ‘Suspicious Link Detection’ feature. The feature aims to help its users to know whether the website links w

In a bid to rope in the expertise of private sector professions, PM Narendra Modi-led Union government has notified 10 positions of joint secretaries through ‘lateral scheme.’ Generally, senior bureaucrats are appointed as joint secretaries in several government departments. Any private sector profe

BALASORE: India on Sunday Successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Long Range Ballistic Missile Agni-5 with a strike range of 5,000 km from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. The surface-to-surface missile was launched with the help of a mobile launcher from lau

NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali has launched a messaging application, "Kimbho", pitching it as a challenge to popular messaging app WhatsApp,  which has over 1 billion downloads from Google Play Store. This "swadeshi messaging platform" comes after Patanjali launched Swadeshi Samriddhi sim c