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ISRO team suggests measures to restart oxygen production at Sterlite Copper
15 May 2021 1:26 PM GMT
Chennai, May 15: An expert team from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday visited Vedanta Ltd's copper smelter plant Sterlite Copper and suggested measures to set right the technical snag that halted oxygen production, the company said.Oxygen production at Sterlite Copper...
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Facebook to roll out campaign to fight Covid related misinformation
2021-05-14T10:32:10+05:30
New Delhi, May 14: Social media giant Facebook on Thursday announced plans to roll out a new campaign in India to educate and inform people about how to detect misinformation related to Covid-19.The campaign, to be launched in coming weeks, will encourage users to check the information they...
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Telecom industry cautions against rumours of 5G causing Covid
7 May 2021 3:57 PM GMT
New Delhi, May 7: The telecom and the related infrastructure industry have come together to refute rumours that 5G connectivity is causing the second wave of Covid-19. Industry bodies have cautioned the public against falling prey to such misinformation.In a joint statement on Friday, the...
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WhatsApp scraps May 15 deadline for accepting privacy policy terms
7 May 2021 1:59 PM GMT
New Delhi, May 7: WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts. WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company...
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NASA's Apollo 11 mission astronaut Michael Collins passes away
2021-04-29T14:26:55+05:30
Washington, April 29: NASA astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the historic mission of Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in 1969, passed away on Wednesday due to cancer. He was 90.During the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, Collins remained in lunar orbit while fellow crew members Neil Armstrong and Buzz...
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Google announces Rs 135 cr grant for Covid-hit India
2021-04-26T13:03:02+05:30
New Delhi, April 26: Google on Monday announced Rs 135 crore ($18 million) to help get urgent medical supplies, including oxygen and testing equipment, for India that is currently going through a devastating Covid wave.The donation includes two grants from Google.org, Google's philanthropic...
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NASA's Mars rover extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
2021-04-22T16:28:10+05:30
Washington, April 22: In a first, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has converted some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen, the US space agency has said.The task was accomplished by a toaster-size, six-wheeled robot aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen...
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IIT Guwahati team removes micro-plastics from sea water using hollow fiber...
20 April 2021 10:01 AM GMT
New Delhi, April 20: The researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati have developed a microfiltration process to remove microplastics from seawater in order to prevent the inclusion of plastic residues in edible salt extracted from it. The research has been published in...
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Tesla crash kills 2 in US, police say 'no one was driving'
2021-04-19T13:32:10+05:30
San Francisco, April 19: In what could be another Autopilot mode failure, two people were killed in a fiery Tesla crash in Texas with no one in the driver's seat.Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman told Houston television station KPRC 2 that the investigation showed "no one was...
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Indian expedition to Antarctica returns to Cape Town
18 April 2021 9:45 AM GMT
New Delhi, April 18: The Indian scientific expedition to Antarctica successfully returned to Cape Town last week after completing a journey of 12,000 nautical miles in 94 days, including stopovers, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said on Saturday.This achievement concludes four successful decades of...
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