In shipping, a push to slash emissions by harnessing the windAlmost all nations have come to an agreement to stop adding emissions from shipping to the atmosphere by the year 2050, a target that large...
05 Oct, 2023, 10.07 AM IST
How ‘Just-in-Time’ manufacturing is reasserting itself globallyIn most industries worldwide outside of aerospace manufacturing, the supply chains are almost back to normal and their conditions are furth...
11 Sep, 2023, 11.24 AM IST
Billions for bar service? Fed bond buying now tied to service sector reboundThe service sector accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic output. Decimated during the pandemic, it is taking on an even more outsi...
18 Dec, 2020, 06.38 PM IST
Eighty years after Hindenburg, startup pitches hydrogen flightHydrogen has its own challenges to overcome in the air, of course. Ever since the Hindenburg burst into flames while docking in 1937, part ...
27 Aug, 2020, 09.14 AM IST
PMC Bank probe finds another ghost account operatorThese ‘ghost accounts’ are suspected to have been operated by entities with the knowledge of arrested bank officials, sources said. These a...
23 Nov, 2019, 10.32 AM IST
VR for health, gadget-vending machines at work: Tech that will affect you in 2019Spending on AR and VR products and services is forecasted to reach $27 billion this year.
29 Dec, 2018, 03.37 PM IST
Flying trains could be coming your wayWith the futuristic concept, passengers would board a train-like tube at a neighborhood station and have their retinas scanned for security...
12 Jul, 2018, 02.16 PM IST
China’s COMAC chases Xi Jinping’s dream to challenge Airbus, BoeingDespite delays to the C919 program -- the first test flight has been postponed at least twice since 2014 -- COMAC’s message to the world: W...
31 Oct, 2016, 01.52 PM IST
City smart, city beautiful: Our urban spaces must not only be better planned but also showcase a sense of public aestheticsIt is not as if Indian cities alone inherited an ugly past. New York's master plan of 1811 was bland, monotonous and, as time quickly revea...
10 Nov, 2014, 04.11 PM IST
Sky’s the limit for pro kite flyers nowIncome for kite-flyers has spiked 600% in the past three years, as even charity organisations, politicians and local personalities create a...
15 Jan, 2014, 07.38 PM IST
Japan to lift grounding of Boeing 787s this week: MinisterJapan today said that their transport ministry will lift the grounding of troubled Boeing 787 jets as early as this week.
23 Apr, 2013, 01.14 PM IST
- Boeing says 2011 profit hurt by 787, defense cuts
The airplane builder and defense company also says its fourth-quarter profit fell to $1.16 billion, down 8 percent from the same time last ...
26 Jan, 2011, 07.05 PM IST
- HAL plans to produce flaperons for Boeing
BOEING signs an agreement for the production of flaperons with aerospace firm HAL for Boeing’s 777 series commercial jetliner.
23 Oct, 2009, 02.12 PM IST
- Cessna Aircraft plans 1,300 more layoffs
Cessna Aircraft Co, the nation's largest builder of corporate jets, said on Friday it is laying off another 1,300 workers, raising the numb...
12 Jun, 2009, 10.40 PM IST
- Bombardier may unveil 'greener' aircraft: report
Canada's aviation giant Bombardier could unveil its CSeries, a fuel-sipping "greener" rival to smaller aircraft made by industry leaders Ai...
13 Jul, 2008, 07.00 AM IST