NASA has selected Blue Origin to develop and deliver a new Mars telecommunications orbiter under a contract valued at up to approximately 700 million dollars. The firm-fixed-price award tasks the company with designing, building, launching and operating the Mars Telecommunications Network, a dedicated communications hub intended to provide reliable, high-bandwidth links between spacecraft at Mars…
Air Marshal (retd.) Jeetendra Mishra has been appointed as the first full-time Chief Executive Officer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, the body responsible for the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Trust on September 2, 2026. Mishra brings nearly four decades of experience from the…
Novak Djokovic’s first-round exit from the 2026 US Open was more than a surprising result. The 24-time Grand Slam champion, long celebrated for outlasting opponents through superior conditioning and mental fortitude, confronted an opponent he could not overcome: the accumulating limits of his own body. At 39, the Serbian star fell in five sets to…
Imagine telling your AI assistant to order groceries, find the best available deal, and complete the payment without asking you to approve every single transaction. That sounds futuristic today, but AI agents could soon get limited permission to make payments through UPI in India. A proposed framework being developed around agentic payments could allow artificial…
Onion prices have risen sharply across India, adding pressure on household budgets soon after a similar spike in sugar. By late August 2026, the all-India average retail price had climbed about 59 per cent year-on-year to Rs 43.53 per kg, while wholesale rates rose 68 per cent. In major cities and states such as Delhi…
India is moving towards a more tightly synchronised digital and infrastructure system, with the government making Indian Standard Time the common reference for several critical services. The move covers areas such as banking, digital payments, railways, telecom networks, power systems, government records and emergency services. The objective is simple on paper: important systems across the…
The draft electoral rolls published after the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision in Karnataka have shown unusually high levels of deletions. Statewide, approximately 1.08 crore names were removed, reducing the electorate from 5.54 crore to 4.46 crore—a contraction of 19.5 percent, or roughly one in every five previously registered voters. The scale and…
Three months before a catastrophic flash flood devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region, officials from both countries sat down in Kathmandu to discuss the very risks that would later unfold. On 27 May 2026, roughly ten Nepali officials and about a dozen Chinese counterparts, including representatives from the Tibet region, met to strengthen cooperation on monitoring…
MTV Roadies is preparing for its 21st season under a new title, Roadies REBIRTH. The announcement confirms the return of Rannvijay Singha as host and sets auditions for September in four cities. A Phoenix-themed logo and an early teaser have already begun building interest around what the makers describe as a fresh chapter for the…
Eating healthy does not always mean following a strict diet, counting every calorie, or removing your favourite foods completely. A better approach is to understand how to build a balanced plate that gives your body a useful mix of vegetables, protein, grains, healthy fats and other important nutrients. The idea is simple enough to use…