New Delhi: What’s common between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge? They never missed an opportunity to quote poet ...

Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat has announced that its temporary satellite outage was due to a thruster issue. The company’s Badr-6 satellite’s payload was shut off for a few hours in February 2023 to ...

Arabsat's Badr-8 satellite separating from the Falcon 9 rocket shortly after lifting off from Florida. Credit: SpaceX webcast TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched the Badr-8 TV broadcast and telecoms ...

A few years before he died, Nobel prize winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was diagnosed with senile dementia. It got to the point where he could no longer recognise his sons and called ...

Like Amir Khusrau blending Persian, Hindi and Urdu words in his poetry, Badr (1935-2026) too was a lifelong builder of bridges, uniting Hindi (or ‘Hinglish’) and Urdu, Hindus and Muslims, India and ...