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  The space experiment by India’s 18-year-old student Rifath Sharook weighing just 64 grams will be launched as part of the payload of NASA’s next mission on June 22, 2017, but it will not be placed in any orbit, clarified NASA on Friday. Named after India’s former President and scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the smallest cube experiment was part of ...

Seema Verma, an Indian origin American consultant in Pence’s Medicaid program for the poor in Indiana, has been named by US President-elect Donald Trump’s as Secretary of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Trump said in a statement that her decades of experience will transform “our health care system for the benefit of all Americans.” Under the Indiana ...

French President Francois Hollande reached home with two major accomplishments from his India visit, one is nod for buying 36 French Rafale aircraft at Rs 60,000 to 66,000 crore (around 8 to 9 billion Euros), and the next big thing is to build a joint Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan 2 that will explore water sources and life traces, if any,on the ...

With maximum amount on platter, the $1.6 billion U.S. Powerball jackpot has gone to three winning tickets after the draw was held on Wednesday with the odds at 1 in 292 million. The winning number tickets with – 08 27 34 04 19 and Powerball 10 – were sold in Tennessee, California and Florida. Each winner will get one-third of ...

Microsoft and Google have agreed to dismiss their entire pending patent lawsuit against each other. There were about 20 different lawsuits in Germany and the United States involving issues as varied as mobile phones, wireless networking, video decoding and other technologies, reported by The New York Times Also, cases included Motorola Mobility (the smartphone maker that Google sold last year ...

The United States celebrates the Labor Day today, the first Monday of September and this year it falls on September 7.  It is a holiday in America in honor of the labor movement and a tribute to hard work that the US stood for all along in the last two centuries. The Labor Day Holiday is a Federal Holiday since ...

China might be the most populous country in the world, but in not more than seven years’ time it is predicted to lose the top spot to the current second spot holder, India, says a new UN report that was revealed yesterday. A report called “2015 Revision of World Population Prospects” that was produced by the UN Branch of Economic ...

They say dream big and live bigger, but when it comes to social network, ‘smaller is smarter’, suggested a new study. Research by physicists from City College of New York has projected that when it comes to important superspreaders of information “smaller is smarter.” This marks as a key change from the popular idea that “bigger is better,” and could ...

Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria, who interviewed Indian Prime Minister last week, has suggested that Modi is “far too shrewd” to be distracted by nationalist symbolism which would derail his growth agenda and embroil him in unwanted controversies. According to reports, Zakaria is said to be wondered in an opinion piece in the Washington Post if the problem with the new ...

Indian-American Richard Rahul Varma has been nominated as the new US Ambassador to India by US President Barack Obama, declared White House on Thursday. The 45-year-old Verma is a senior counselor at the business advisory company led by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Steptoe & Johnson law firm and the Albright Stonebridge Group. He was the former Assistant Secretary ...