Defying poverty, Tripura tribal artist gets Padma Shri for promoting rare musical instrument

Agartala (IANS) Poverty has not stopped nonagenarian Thanga Darlong -- all of 91 years -- from playing the rosem, a flute-like tribal musical instrument made of bamboo. This labour of love saw him nominated for the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest…

ISRO to launch defence satellite in March for DRDO

Chennai (IANS) In a special mission in March, the Indian space agency will launch an electronic intelligence satellite Emisat for the DRDO, 28 third party satellites and also demonstrate its new technologies like three different orbits with a…

Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X herald foldable smartphone era

New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) With the introduction of true foldable smartphones at the MWC Barcelona, South Korean giant Samsung and Chinese technology player Huawei have revolutionized the future of handheld devices.

Huawei "Mate…

Indian brand launches smartphone with pop-up selfie camera

Barcelona (IANS) Domestic smartphone-maker CENTRiC on Monday launched "S1" smartphone that features an 8MP pop-up selfie camera and in-display fingerprint scanner, costing $310 (approximately Rs 22,027).

The device, showcased at the…

Samsung reveals upgraded A series with 2 smartphones

Seoul (IANS) Following the launch of its flagship "Galaxy S10" and the world's first ever foldable smartphone "Galaxy Fold", Samsung on Monday revealed the upgraded Galaxy A series with two initial offerings in the mid-tier…

OPPO to launch phone with 10x zoom camera setup

Barcelona (IANS) To add more power to smartphone photography, Chinese smartphone maker OPPO has said it will launch a phone with 10x "lossless" zoom technology in the second quarter of this year.

The phone will have…

What led to dinosaurs' extinction?

New York (IANS) An asteroid or comet impact 66 million years ago reignited massive volcanic eruptions in India and may have contributed to the dinosaurs' extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, finds a study.

In the study,…

New MIT-developed MRI sensor to peek deep inside brain

New York (IANS) Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique to image calcium activity deep in the brain.

Calcium is a critical signaling molecule…

Japanese spacecraft lands on asteroid, takes samples

Tokyo (IANS) A Japanese spacecraft successfully touched down on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, which is some 340 million km from Earth, to take samples that could provide clues on the origins of the solar system.

The Japan Space Exploration…

Google remembers Irwin, the crocodile hunter

New Delhi (IANS) Google on Friday dedicated a doodle celebrating wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin's life and legacy, whom many grew up watching wrestling giant crocodiles in the Australian wilderness.

A zookeeper…