World’s largest all-electric aircraft successfully takes it first flight The world’s largest all-electric plane took its maiden voyage successfully, which lasted 30 minutes. The eCaravan aircraft is a Cessna208 Caravan plane which was fitted with a 750 horsepower electric motor made by US-based startup Magnix and modified by aerospace engineering firm AeroTEC. The aircraft which…
Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream – including the problem of blindness, which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. Often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we…
A rocket capable of flying passengers from London to Dubai in under 29 minutes, shared flying cars that can be ordered up like we order a Uber and which nanoscale motes will float through our bloodstream collecting data are some of the innovations that await us in the next decade as the technology is accelerating…
Vijay Mallya, the high-flying owner Kingfisher Airlines, on Thursday, lost his leave to appeal his extradition to India in the UK Supreme Court, triggering a 28-day clock on his removal from the UK. The extradition case regarding the alleged bank fraud of Rs 900 crore in IDBI Bank/ The liquor baron also faces probe in…
There are now 230,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and 33, 164 people have died and 428 dead in the UK yesterday. Care homes in the UK account for 40 per cent of all Covid-19 deaths. UK follows the EU and US to approve Roche’s Covid-19 antibody tests. Game-changing tests are given go-ahead as…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the UK furlough scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus has been extended to October. He further said the government-backed workers and companies going into the lockdown, and would support them coming out and confirmed that employees will continue to receive 80 per cent of their monthly…
Navinder Singh Sarao, a mathematical prodigy turned trader , a Cheeky school boy tuned to supposedly master criminal, contrived to have himself hunted down by the FBI for crashing the US Stock market, from a computer in his bedroom in his parental home under a flight path in drab London suburbia in working-class neighbourhood of…
Protective screens and reduced hot-desking alternatives to social distancing where it is not possible are among measures being considered to let workplaces reopen. Reopening the economy will take more than modified working practices. Workers must be confident they are safe. Companies must be confident they won’t be sued if they get it wrong. And consumers…
Bill Gates: China did many things right and their criticism over COVID-19 is a distraction Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said “China did many things right at the beginning like any country where a virus emerges, and their criticism was a distraction. It does not affect how we act today”. He further said, “…