California

02 Mar

Majority of voters unwilling to run Indian-American Harris for president: poll

New York, March 2 (IANS) Even though US President Joe Biden has accidentally referred to Kamala Harris as President at least six times, a majority of voters are unenthusiastic about his Vice President's potential presidential run in 2024, according to a latest poll. According to The Telegraph, Biden's Indian-origin second-in-command has struggled to gain traction among Democrats nationwide amid her poor public approval ratings. But what shocks more is that the majority of these voters are from California -- a Democrat bastion and Harris' home state. Between February 14 and 20, a poll conducted by the Berkeley Institute of Government Studies…

06 Jul

SpaceX successfully launches 3rd satellite in 12 days

Washington: SpaceX launched a commercial communications satellite using a Falcon 9 rocket, its third flight in just 12 days. The rocket blasted off on Wednesday evening at 7.38 p.m. (local time) from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, delivering the satellite called the Intelsat 35e to a geostationary transfer orbit, reports Xinhua news agency. The satellite was deployed about 32 minutes after launch. The California-based company tried to launch the satellite on Sunday and Monday, but stopped twice in the final seconds of countdown. With a launch mass of over 6.7 tonnes, the Intelsat 35e is the heaviest satellite Falcon 9…