India on Wednesday made history by successfully placing its spacecraft in orbit around Mars, becoming the first country in the world to succeed in such an inter-planetary mission in the maiden attempt itself. At 7:17 am, the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor ...

India's space agency successfully fired the main engine of the Mangalyaan spacecraft headed for Mars on Monday to carry out a course correction and put it on track to enter the red planet's orbit on September 24. The Mars Orbiter Mission has entered the ...

Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (TAQA) is pulling out of a $1.6 billion deal to buy two Indian hydroelectric power plants from Jaiprakash Power Ventures because of "a change in strategy". A company official, who declined to be named under briefing rules, did ...

Instagram, the photo sharing app, is adding editing tools that go beyond the vintage-looking filters that made it popular. The Facebook-owned app said in a blog post on Tuesday that users will be able to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and other ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office on Tuesday, a day after being sworn-in by President Pranab Mukherjee. Modi was received at South block office of the PMO by newly appointed Principal Secretary Nripendra Mishra and some other officials.

The company is said to have been investing heavily for the promotion of these devices in wireless carrier stores and advertising, improving financial costs for marketing and development. LG and Motorola will most likely opt for the first phones whereas ...

Based on the Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system, the handset was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and its pre-bookings started on March 29. "We are very encouraged by the pre-booking response for the S5 which is three ...

Based on the Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system, the handset was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and its pre-bookings started on March 29. "We are very encouraged by the pre-booking response for the S5 which is three ...

The wait for the Samsung Galaxy S5 finally comes to an end. This new flagship smartphone from the Korean firm is going to be available worldwide starting Friday. The MRP of the Galaxy S5 is Rs 54,300. However, as reported earlier, the best price listed on ...

Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the company has said, after an online dating service urged a boycott of the company's web browser because of a donation Eich made to opponents of gay marriage. The software company came under ...

Joe Belfiore, vice president of the operating system group at Microsoft, holds a pair of mobile phones featuring the new Windows 8.1 operating system during the company's "build" conference in San Francisco on April 2, 2014. PHOTO: REUTERS.

Taiwan's HTC Corp has unveiled a new flagship smartphone, the One M8, an upgrade to the award-winning HTC One, that it hopes will claw back some of the market share lost to Samsung Electronics. The HTC One M8 has a 5-inch display, slightly larger ...

Finnish handset maker Nokia on Monday said its $7.2 billion deal with software firm Microsoft is expected to be delayed by a month and will now be finalised by April due to pending regulatory approvals from some antitrust authorities in Asia. The handset ...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said recovery in developed economies is on track although slowing activity in big emerging markets means global growth will be only moderate at best in the near term. Exceptionally ...