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MOM and MAVEN to scan Martian sky together

Indian Space and Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission and American National Aeronautics and Space Administration's orbiter mission Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution or MAVEN will......

NASA's new spacecraft follows India's Mangalyan to Mars

Two weeks after India successfully launched its maiden Mars mission, America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched a new spacecraft to orbit the red planet to probe how it......

Spelling Bee spells winning word WRONG, claim experts

'Knaidel', the word that won 13-year-old Indian-American Arvind Mahankali the Scripps National Spelling Bee crown, may have been wrongly spelled, Jewish linguists have claimed. Arvind, from New......

US, India to collaborate on Mars exploration

India and the United States, after sending their own respective spacecraft into Mars' orbit, have now agreed to cooperate on future explorations of the Red Planet, which America said will yield......

Was Ravana the world's first aviator?

'Even among scientists and technology mavens -- typically communities that tend to view the world through the lens of logos or reason and not mythos, there is a shiny-eyed enthusiasm for the......

Sachin Bansal's firm buys IT consulting firm MavenHive

The two parties did not share the deal size but said MavenHive's two founders and 40-odd team members have joined the Bansal-owned firm. MavenHive was started by Bhavin Javia and Anandha Krishnan......

Ex-Microsoft CEO Ballmer to buy NBA's LA Clippers for $2 bn

Former Microsoft Corporation chief executive officer Steve Ballmer won the bidding war for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers franchise with a $2 billion offer, a record for a professional basketball......

What next for Greece and the troubled euro zone?

Like a cancer patient in remission, Greece now greets every little victory with disproportionate joy, in the knowledge that it has only postponed the inevitable. Thus, the financial mavens in......

The best way to influence consumers

For many big brands, investment in advertising is as big as the amounts spent in setting up factories and other infrastructure, says Madhukar Sabnavis. The beverage station was located in a......

Billionaire predictions

Is greed good? Absolutely not, according to some of the richest people in the world. "Wall Street people used greed as a credo until it devoured itself," says casino billionaire Phil Ruffin, who......

2016: The year Hollywood gave Bollywood a scare

Movies like Jungle Book, Conjuring 2 helped Hollywood capture its biggest share of the Indian box office this year. Hollywood expects to build on this in 2017 with films like Thor: Ragnarok,......

Saina ready for Chinese challenge at World C'ship

After winning three successive international tournaments, badminton maven Saina Nehwal is confident of conquering next month's World Championship in Paris. "Considering the way I am playing and the......