QRSAM: First Layer In IADWS The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Aug 23 successfully carried out the maiden flight-tests of the Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS). Held off the coast of Odisha, the test validated the country’s first fully indigenous multi-layered air defence shield.During the demonstration, IADWS engaged and destroyed three aerial…
Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has announced his retirement from the Indian Premier League (IPL). Ashwin broke the news on the social media platform X, stating that he will now explore playing in leagues around the world. For cricket fans, this marks the end of an era, but it is also a chance to reflect…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday commissioned two advanced multi-mission stealth frigates, INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, at the Eastern Command of the Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam, marking a major boost to the country’s maritime strength.Indirectly, referring to the United States, Rajnath said, “One country has the F-35 (fifth-generation fighter jet) flying in…
Following its drubbing by Indian forces during the four-day conflict, Pakistan has announced the creation of a new Army Rocket Force Command (ARFC), which is reportedly inspired by China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF). Unveiling the plan on the eve of Independence Day, Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, on August 13, announced the creation…
Marc Andreessen’s journey from UIUC to Netscape and the future of computing. (Getty Images) Marc Andreessen recently predicted that a revolutionary device will emerge to make smartphones feel “old and primitive,” signalling the next transformation in consumer technology. Speaking on the TBNP podcast, the venture capitalist suggested that eye-based, voice-operated, or environmental computing interfaces may…
TOI explains: How Nisar was built & why it’ll take 90 days before any data comes in NEW DELHI: The India-US Earth observation satellite, Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar), is set for launch on July 30 from Isro’s spaceport in Sriharikota aboard the GSLV-F16 rocket. But the mission’s real work begins after it enters orbit….
From a remote village in Himachal Pradesh to the helm of a $25 billion global cloud security company, Jay Chaudhry’s story is one of academic brilliance meeting entrepreneurial vision. At the heart of his success lies a rare combination of technical depth, business acumen, and global perspective, refined through three world-class institutions: IIT-BHU, the University…
What if leadership wasn’t forged in corridors of power, but in quiet libraries, late-night study groups, and classrooms where the stakes were ideas, not elections? Before Rishi Sunak found himself juggling the UK economy and navigating global politics, he was a student making choices that would quietly define the way he thinks, leads, and governs.His…
Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the bodies of the people it had made disappear. Source link
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez As billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s marriage to journalist Lauren Sánchez unfolds today in Venice, attention is once again drawn to the staggering journey of the man who transformed the way the world shops, reads, and even thinks about space. The ceremony, which had to be relocated due to protests over…