School-level schemes get a boost while minority higher education scholarships take a hit, ETEducation

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The Merit-cum-Means Scholarship for Professional and Technical Courses, which provides support to minority students in engineering, medical, and management courses, has seen its funding fall drastically The Union Budget 2026–27 shows a clear difference in how the government is spending on education. School-level programmes, aimed at preventing dropouts and encouraging innovation, have kept their funding […]

General relativity survives its most rigorous single-event test yet

This artwork imagines the event designated GW250114, which produced the clearest gravitational wave signal the LIGO instruments have detected to date. | Photo Credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)/LVK/URI On January 14, 2025, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGOs) recorded a cosmic tremor unlike any before. Named GW250114, the signal was the ‘loudest’ gravitational wave scientists had […]

NASA hit by fuel leak during practice countdown of moon rocket

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early hours of February 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. | Photo Credit: AP NASA ran into a leak while fueling its new moon rocket Monday (February 2, 2026) in one […]

ISRO tests thrust chamber for LOX-Methane Engine

3D Printed Single Element Thrust Chamber. Picture: isro.gov.in The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has conducted the testing of a sub-scale thrust chamber for LOX-Methane Engine which would be inducted in the next generation of launch vehicles. The test was conducted at the Thrust Chamber Test facility at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri on January […]

Delhi govt to SC, ETEducation

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Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for the Delhi government, told the bench that the law will not be enforced in the current academic year New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday told the Supreme Court that a new law which regulates fees in private schools in the national capital will not be implemented […]