August 2026

2-3% rise in construction costs likely if crude stays high, report warns (representative image) Indian real estate sector is expected to remain broadly resilient despite geopolitical uncertainty stemming from the West Asia crisis, with healthy demand, stronger developer balance sheets and robust office leasing likely to cushion near-term pressures, according to a CareEdge Ratings report.However,…

Kanav Jain, a student from Broxburn, Scotland has been crowned UK Young Engineer of the Year for building a low-cost autonomous aircraft to deliver medicines to remote communities. His project titled ‘AeroAid: autonomous VTOL quadplane’ won at The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition held at The Big Bang Fair.According to a report…

The milestone was achieved on Wednesday by the Chinese private space company LandSpace China has successfully recovered the first stage of an orbital rocket on land for the first time, marking a major step in Beijing’s efforts to develop reusable launch technology and reduce the cost of putting satellites into space.The milestone was achieved on…

‘Not within four walls of law’: Pak law minister on Khan hospitalisation order The Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government will challenge the Supreme Court’s order directing the transfer of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to a private hospital, as law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar confirmed in a video message on Wednesday.According to news agency Reuters,…