India's CCI again fines Google $114M for its Play Store policies

The internet giant has been charged with abusing its dominant position through its Play Store policies | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Scammer Call Centres Busted

NEW DELHI The two call centres, which were detected during the nationwide crackdown led by the Centr | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

H-1B visas could soon be stamped inside U.S.

Many Indian professionals, either new or waiting for the renewal of H-1B visas, are facing uncertainty due to long visa application appointments, with the current wait period being more than a year | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

A shadow library ban pits publishers against free information activists

Shadow libraries like LibGen and Sci-Hub have become a thorn in the flesh for large publishers who wield control over nearly half of all scientific literature and make a hefty profit from selling journals to university libraries | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

FDA authorises first Covid-19 shots for infants, preschoolers

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends how to use vaccines and its vaccine advisers are set to discuss the shots Friday and vote on Saturday. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Covid-19: Supreme Court upholds individual’s right against forcible vaccination

Bodily autonomy and integrity are protected under Article 21 of the Constitution, holds Supreme Court | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Father, daughter die after e-bike goes on flames in India

(PHOTOS: C_Venketachalapathy)VELLORE | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Mid air collision of two aircrafts taking off simultaneously averted in India

Radar controller intervened in time, DGCA investigating lapse | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants

The three reactors now being shuttered were first powered up in the mid-1980s. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Pyramid Investment Scheme dupes $165 each from a million in India

Accused includes three government school teachers from Telangana | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

United Arab Emirates to Switch Weekends to Saturday and Sunday

“The extended weekend comes as part of the UAE’s government efforts to boost work-life balance and enhance social well-being,” the statement added. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 2 years ago

Heart attacks among youngsters on the rise

Doctors say high-intensity exercise is one of the precipitating factors in general | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

India-Made Spray Linked to Rare Illness in U.S.

Deadly bacterium found in spray used by victims. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

China to require foreign vessels to report in ‘territorial waters’

‘55% of India’s trade via South China Sea, the Malacca Straits’ | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Snist physicist finds solution for Riemann Hypothesis

Millennium problem in mathematics was waiting for proof for the last 161 years | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Facebook temporarily blocks posts with hashtag ResignModi

The social media giant said these posts were temporarily blocked due to a mistake and were not taken down on government orders. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Biden administration denies ‘outright ban’ on vaccine raw materials

Poonawalla, on April 16, had asked Mr Biden to “lift the embargo” on raw materials to assist the production of COVID-19 vaccines. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Biden urged not to accept India, South Africa’s proposal on Covid-19 vaccine

Mike Lee, Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst and Todd Young, in a letter to President Biden, urged him to reject the upcoming proposal at the World Trade Organisation | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Can insect pet food cut dogs’ carbon pawprint?

British firm offers eco-friendly snack | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency

The law will "create a facilitative framework for creation of the official digital currency to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India" | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

India asks WhatsApp to withdraw changes in privacy policy

They raise ‘grave concerns’ over implications of the choice and autonomy of Indian citizens, it says | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Research – smoking, vegetarianism could be ‘protective’ against Covid

Research suggests smoking, vegetarianism could be ‘protective’ against infection | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

India becomes first country to culture U.K. variant strain

"U.K. variant of the virus, with all signature changes, is now successfully isolated and cultured at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) from the clinical specimens collected from UK-returnees," the ICMR said. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

L&T crafts a building – with a 3D printer

700 sq. ft. structure in Kancheepuram used indigenous concrete mixture. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Scientists discover oldest known human-made nanostructures in India

Research reveals that these coatings are made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which have enabled the layer to last more than 2,600 years | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Volkswagen takes on Tesla with first ID.4 electric models in China

The models mark the start of a major push by Volkswagen into the electric vehicle market in China to take on the likes of Tesla and Nio Inc. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 3 years ago

Tata Group to unveil India's first CRISPR-based Covid-19 test

‘World’s first diagnostic test to deploy a specially adapted Cas9 protein to successfully detect the virus causing COVID-19’ | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Giraffe chess is played with 68 squares

Proddatur-born Giraffe Chess eliminates the scope for draw | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Facebook should be treated as co-accused in riots: Delhi govt. panel

Assembly Committee accuses the company of major lapses, to summon officials | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Trump signs order against hiring H1B visa holders for federal contracts

Trump told reporters that his administration will not tolerate firing of hardworking Americans in the pursuit of cheap foreign labour | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Paul Erdős, a legendary mathematician in Madras (2019)

A charming story of the Hungarian genius Paul Erdős and how he encouraged young students | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

What is zero budget natural farming? (2019)

Will this form of chemical-free agriculture increase farmers’ incomes? Where are the pitfalls? | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Personal details of 2.90 crore Indian job seekers on dark net

Leaked data mentions two popular job sites | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Notes on a digital currency plan, made in China

The expansion of the central bank’s pilot is the first such serious initiative in the world | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Indian Govt. work from home draft: 15 days work from home a year

Draft consultation paper floated to adopt best work from home practices for Central government employees | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

India: PM announces 21-day lockdown as Covid-19 toll touches 10

Govt. allots ₹15,000 crore to beef up infrastructure for treatment of patients | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Humans affect genetic connectivity of four mammals

Four wide-ranging mammals — jungle cats, leopards, sloth bears and tigers — were studied in central India | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Infosys to pay California $800K to settle worker, tax fraud charges

The State of California had alleged that between 2006 and 2017, approximately 500 Infosys employees were working in the State on Infosys-sponsored B-1 visas rather than H-1B visas | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander Vikram

NASA released an image taken by its LRO that showed the site of the spacecraft’s impact and associated debris field, with parts scattered over almost two dozen locations spanning several kilometres. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

International drug racket operating on Dark Web busted

Two peddlers in the city arrested; 2.75 kg of marijuana, 100 e-cigarettes, hashish oil, ganja chocolates and jelly worth over ₹1 crore seized | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

Indian IT Giant Cognizant to Hire 23k Students in 2020

Announcement comes at a time when Cognizant has said that it would be cutting as many as 7,000 jobs in the next few quarters | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 4 years ago

How will you save two year old boy falls into abandoned borewell

The boy, Sujith Wilson, was apparently playing close to his house when he slipped and fell into an abandoned borewell | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

IIT Madras registers initial success with iron ion battery

The iron ion battery is cost-effective and can store a high amount of energy | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

Modi vows to more than double India’s non-fossil fuel target to 450 GW by 2022

“We must accept that if we have to overcome a serious challenge like climate change, then what we are doing at the moment is just not enough” | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

India Secretly Armed Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance

Former envoy has a word of caution on Delhi’s role in a post-U.S. Kabul | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

India's Moon Lander Found

It must have been a hard landing, says K. Sivan | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

ISRO Chandryaan 2’s orbiter life is now 7.5 times due to economic fuel usage

ISRO chairman K. Sivan said that the orbiter’s life is now 7.5 years instead of the earlier one year as its fuel has been used economically. | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

India's GDP Growth Slows to 5% in April-June

April-June growth pace weakest since 4.3% of Jan-March 2013 | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago