A dense cluster of defunct satellites and fragmented metal orbits Earth. (AI-generated image) BENGALURU: Globally, 2024 continued to see a significant number of space launches, with 261 attempts and 254 successes, resulting in 2,578 operational satellites and a total of 2,963 objects placed in orbit, although the total objects placed in orbit is slightly lower…
Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday lauded the Sikh student who questioned Rahul Gandhi over the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 and said it was telling that the Congress leader was being “ridiculed not just in India, but around the world”.The student asked Rahul what…
NEW DELHI: Visiting director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the US was concerned about the persecution of minorities in Bangladesh and the Trump admin was committed to defeating “Islamist terrorism” globally. She told NDTV World that PM Modi also took this threat seriously and added that the two leaders would work together to identify…
Dalvin Modore walked as if there was broken glass beneath his feet, stepping gingerly, his frail shoulders hunched against the anticipation of pain. His trousers had become so loose that he had to hold them up as he inched around his small farm in western Kenya. Mr. Modore has tuberculosis. He is 40, a tall…
Microsoft Outlook down globally, thousands of users locked out of their accounts Global Microsoft Outlook outage UPDATED: Mar 2, 2025 07:09 IST This is a developing story. It will be updated. Published By: Karishma Saurabh Kalita Published On: Mar 2, 2025 Source link
The Trump administration is placing US Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential. A notice posted online Tuesday gives the workers 30 days to return home, upending the aid agency’s six-decade mission overseas. Thousands of USAID employees already had been laid off and programs worldwide shut down…
NEW DELHI: Domestic flights in India were the most packed globally last year, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA). Flights within India flew 86.4% full, followed by domestic flights of the US and China at 84.1% and 83.2%, respectively. The overall global average passenger load factor (PLF or how many seats get sold on…
People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the…
Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT is experiencing a global outage, affecting users across the world from accessing the popular chatbot. The outage has not only affected ChatGPT, but also OpenAI’s API and Sora platforms. “We’re experiencing an outage right now. We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix. Sorry and…
NEW DELHI: The Times Higher Education (THE) announced its first-ever Online Learning Rankings (OLR) 2024 today. This inaugural ranking evaluates higher-education institutions providing quality online education, categorising them into three tiers: gold, silver, and bronze. The OLR 2024 aims to measure the quality of online-learning globally, a domain of education that gained unprecedented importance during…