Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight and reaches orbit

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

Science and Tech 16 Jan, 2025

Planetary parade of 2022 has Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn lined up, making a spectacular show

A wonder for all the sky watchers - a rare planetary parade is expected to line in the morning sky in the month of June.

Science and Tech 22 Jun, 2022

Jeff Bezos blasts into space on own rocket: 'Best day ever!'

Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.

Science and Tech 21 Jul, 2021

Man City win record-equalling fourth straight League Cup

Spurs had soaked up intense City pressure for most of the game to somehow stay in contention at Wembley Stadium.

Sports 26 Apr, 2021

Bezos says Blue Origin will take the first woman to moon's surface

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon's surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024. "This...

Mobile & Apps 06 Dec, 2020

Relevance of education

When I first embarked on my career, we had a co-worker, a rich man, a scion of industry. He had returned from Canada with an MBA degree. Those days an MBA degree was as valuable as a medical or engineering degree if not more. An MBA degree meant entry...

17 Dec, 2019

Bangkok tops Paris, London as world's most-visited city - MasterCard

BANGKOK: Thailand's capital, Bangkok, edged out Paris and London as the world's most popular city to visit, according to a survey released on Wednesday, welcome news for Thailand after worries over a drop in foreign arrivals. Bangkok was named...

Art & Culture 04 Sep, 2019

Amazon�s Bezos says he�ll send a spaceship to the moon

WASHINGTON: Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he’s going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there. Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a...

Mobile & Apps 10 May, 2019

Longtime Elvis Presley drummer DJ Fontana has died

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE: DJ Fontana, a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who rose from strip joints in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, to the heights of musical history as Elvis Presley’s first and longtime drummer, has died at 87, his wife said...

Travel Abroad 15 Jun, 2018

Stephen Hawking dies at the age of 76

KATHMANDU: British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 on Tuesday, according to the UK Press Association. Born on January 8, 1942, Hawking later went on to become a pioneer theoretical physicist and a known cosmologist of...

Women 14 Mar, 2018

LETTERS: No financial burden

There are a considerable number of people in Nepal who are suffering from several kinds of non-communicable diseases such as cancer, spinal injury paralysis and kidney failure. Not all of them are in a position to afford expensive treatment. The...

01 Feb, 2018

Blue moon

A blue moon rises over Balboa Park's California Tower in San Diego, California, US, January 30, 2018. Photo: Reuters