Ravi Venkatesan quits Infosys board
NEW DELHI : Ravi Venkatesan, the former co-chairman of Infosys Ltd, resigned from the post of independent director at India’s second-largest IT outsourcing company, a move many observers said was part of co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s board reconstitution. Infosys, in a filing to the exchanges on Friday, said that Venkatesan, who joined the board More...
NASA launches InSight spacecraft toward Mars
VANDENBERG: InSight aims to be the first NASA spacecraft to land on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012. “There is nothing routine about going to Mars, especially landing on Mars,” said Stu Spath, InSight More...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says His Own Data Was Shared by Cambridge Analytica
WASHINGTON /SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told lawmakers that his own personal data was included in that of 87 million or so Facebook users that was improperly shared with political More...
Over 5 lakh Indians’ data have been ‘improperly’ shared with Cambridge Analytica:FB
NEW DELHI : In a first revelation, Facebook has said that data of nearly 5.6 lakh Indian users may have been “improperly” shared with British political analytics company Cambridge Analytica (CA). Responding More...
India Launches GSAT 6-A Satellite, Big Boost for Armed Forces
SRIHARIKOTA : Indian Space Research Organisation’s GSLV-F08 mission carrying the GSAT-6A communication satellite blasted off from the Sriharikota spaceport on Thursday. The communication satellite was successfully More...
India Government sends notice to Facebook
NEW DELHI : After sending notice to the U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica last week,the Government of India has now sent a notice to Facebook amid controversy over misuse of its users’ data.The government has raised More...
IIT-Delhi the top ranked Indian varsity in world ranking
NEW DELHI : Six Indian universities turned up in the top 400 in the well-regarded QS World Universities Rankings for 2018. And predictably, five of these six are IITs. The only non-IIT Indian institution in the More...
Twitter is testing a new feature named Bookmarks.
SAN FRANCISCO? NEW DELHI : Twitter is testing a new feature named Bookmarks. The features users privately flag tweets for viewing at ease when they have time. The feature will reportedly help users keep a separate More...
Why China has blocked WhatsApp: Here’s the reason
SAN FRANCSCO :Instant messaging service WhatsApp has been largely blocked in China, the media reported. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a global observation network for detecting censorship, More...
India’s first ‘private’ satellite to launch today at Sriharikota
CHENNAI: In a new beginning to the private sector in space enterprise, ISRO is set to launch the first private sector-built navigation satellite IRNSS-1H from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Thursday More...