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Payment aggregator CCAvenue has seen an 18% jump in new merchant sign-ups in the October-December period, while merchant addition tripled in six months for Pine Labs’ Plural. The increase in the share is pursuant to Razorpay, Cashfree Payments, PayU and Paytm pausing new sign-ups following an order from the Reserve Bank of India which has also rejected payment aggregator licence applications of some of these players.

“Dubai is a gateway to the world, and its progressive government, multicultural workforce, and business-friendly policies make it a great fit for us, as we expand our footprint across the APMEA regions,”

Discussions are likely to be held with countries that don’t have extensive semiconductor manufacturing capacities and currently procure chips from nations such as China and Taiwan.

ISRO further plans to conduct the first runway landing experiment (RLV-LEX) of the reusable launch vehicle early next year from Aeronautical Test Range in Karnataka's Chitradurga, Union Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh told Parliament this month.

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South Korea, Japan and U.S. authorities had said Sunday they had detected a pair of ballistic missile launches by North Korea from its northwestern Tongchang-ri area, where the North's satellite launch pad is located. They said the two missiles flew about 500 kilometers (310 miles) at a maximum altitude of 550 kilometers (340 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. This could mean North Korea might have fired a missile or two to send the test-piece satellite into space.

The homegrown auto major Tata Motors said it would explore the possibility of partial divestment of its holding in subsidiary Tata Technologies Ltd through an initial public offering route.

India has differentiated itself. And I like to call India a cleaner white shirt in a dirty shirt world. I would like to see the investment cycle come back. We are seeing people still cautious on the investment cycle. And we are still too much driven by consumption as the core of our economy.

The Shenzhou-15 crewed spaceship will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced. The spaceship will take three astronauts -- Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu -- to carry out the spaceflight mission.

The Long March-7 Y6 rocket, carrying Tianzhou-5 which blasted off this morning from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan has successfully entered its designated orbit, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said.

Snap’s popularity is soaring, especially among Gen Z users — people born between 1997 and 2012. Spiegel himself told us in October 2021 that the app had crossed 100 million monthly users in the country.

Plus, the external hatch is electrically driven, which is the first of its kind to be used in global space station history. This auto door reduces the astronaut's labour and increases efficiency when transporting cargo out of the cabin, said Bai Hemin, a designer for the space station system at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST).

Scientific equipment in the Mengtian module, the second lab component of China's under-construction space station, will be used for studying microgravity and carrying out experiments in fluid physics, materials science, combustion science and fundamental physics, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said Artemyev didn't see an employee of the Star City cosmonaut training center who was crossing the road in the dark late Monday. It said in a statement Tuesday that Artemyev immediately provided first aid assistance to the victim, Anatoly Uronov, who was hospitalized with several fractures.

The transition, though completed successfully in the end, was far from a foregone conclusion because of its complexity and the scale of the Ethereum network, which is second only to Bitcoin’s.

NASA and its partners hope to continue operating the 24-year-old International Space Station until 2030, and the Russian announcement threw that plan into doubt. Speaking on Friday in televised remarks, Borisov said Russia will start the process of leaving the station after 2024 but the exact timing would "depend on the International Space Station's condition."

The proposal is likely to be taken up for detailed discussion with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology by the end of this week or the next week, the sources said.

Chauhan will also need to steer the long-pending public offer of shares at the National Stock Exchange (NSE), where he was part of the founding team but left it in 2000, for various roles at Reliance Industries group, before returning to the stock exchange arena as deputy CEO of the BSE in 2009 and then as CEO in 2012.

Two US tech lobbies – representing Meta, Google, Twitter and others – have expressed concern that the panel may not be independent since the government will control its formation

Earlier in the day, the spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. Minutes later, the official at the ground control declared the mission a great success, saying the spacecraft has reached its designated orbit.

Once ready, China will be the only country to own a space station of its own as the International Space Station (ISS) of Russia is a collaborative project of several countries.

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said work had begun on the fist module of a new station, after officials warned that Russia was considering pulling out of the ISS, one of the few successful examples of cooperation with the West.

Beating gender stereotypes, these space enthusiasts are building a new space economy through an array of downstream applications, combining the power of satellite data with machine learning and AI.