Mumbai, Sep 3 – An Indian-origin US official Friday said that providing information on the web to increase access to official data is a priority for the American government. ‘We created data.gov in 2009 with an aim to increase access to government data as close to the authoritative source as possible,’ said Vivek Kundra, US [...]
Bangalore, Sep 2 – India is inching closer towards building the world’s largest solar telescope in Ladakh on the foothills of the Himalayas that aims to study the sun’s microscopic structure. The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) project has gathered momentum with a global tender floated for technical and financial bidding by the Bangalore-based Indian [...]
Chandigarh, Aug 30 – Job seekers in Haryana will not have to go to employment exchanges to get their names registered. An online facility is being activated from Sep 1. Haryana’s Labour and Employment minister Mahender Pratap Singh said Monday all the services of the department, like registration of job seekers, registration of employers and [...]
Bangalore, Aug 30 – India’s second moon mission in 2013 will carry five scientific instruments on board the spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 that will also have a lander and a rover to ride on the lunar surface, the space agency said Monday. ‘Russia will provide the lander and the rover is being built by our scientists and [...]
New Delhi, Aug 30 – BlackBerry phone maker Research in Motion (RIM) Monday gave in to the Indian government’s pressure and said it would consider setting up a server in India to help security agencies monitor its encrypted data. In doing so, RIM got a two-month extension for continuing its services, the home ministry said. [...]
Ranchi, Aug 30 – Jharkhand Police have sought help of Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a campaign against Maoist rebels. Jharkhand Director General of Police (DGP) Neyaz Ahmad met Dhoni at his home in Harmu housing colony Monday. The Jharkhand police chief termed the meeting a courtesy call. However, according to informed sources, [...]
New Delhi, Aug 30 – A robot performing surgery sounds like a scene out of a Hollywood sci-fi flick. But fiction is fast turning into reality in Indian operation theatres where high-precision robotic surgeries – a less cumbersome procedure than conventional operations – are gaining acceptance. Leaving behind the days of low technology methods, doctors [...]
Hyderabad, Aug 29 – A Cyber Lab here was Sunday inaugurated to train police officers in tackling rising cyber crimes. An initiative by the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) and Data Security Council of India (DSCI), the cyber lab has been sponsored by Andhra Bank. Inaugurating the lab, Andhra Pradesh Director General [...]
New Delhi, Aug 26 – The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has been conducting regulatory inspections in radiology departments of hospitals and universities to safeguard against radioactive exposure, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said here Thursday. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, the minister said last year, the board conducted inspections in [...]
New Delhi, Aug 26 – Two Indians figure in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious Technology Review’s 2010 TR35 list for their outstanding contribution in the fields of energy, biomedicine, communications, information technology, transportation and the web. Indrani Medhi, based at Microsoft Research India’s Bangalore lab, was named for her field research to design text-free interfaces [...]
New Delhi, Aug 26 – A majority of Indian companies are confident of dealing with the cyber security threats, says a survey released by financial advisory firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd. Unlike last year when many companies had done less investments on security due to economic downturn, organisations have gradually started to focus [...]
Bangalore, Aug 26 – Around 25 universities are aspiring to launch satellites built by their students but the Indian space agency says its hands are full as it has to launch four more student satellites by the end of next year. University students across India are clearly ignited by the successful launch last month by [...]
New Delhi, Aug 26 – India has no immediate plan to drag the United States to the WTO court on the hike in visa fee and will try to resolve the issue bilaterally, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said here Thursday. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will visit US next month to take up the [...]
London, Aug 26 – Sad and anxious mothers tend to have smaller babies who are more likely to die in infancy. The study, which focused on women living in rural Bangladesh, provides the first finding of its kind in a non-Western population. Karolinska Instituet, Sweden and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) assessed mental health of [...]
New Delhi, Aug 26 – More needs to be done to attract women to the fields of science and technology, US Assistant Secretary of State for Scientific Affairs Kerri Ann Jones said here Thursday. ‘Women are under-represented on the top level in the field of science and technology, this needs to be addressed,’ said Jones [...]
Hyderabad, Aug 25 – Humane Society International (HIS), an animal welfare group, wants a ban on the genetic engineering and cloning of farm animals aimed at boosting egg, meat or milk production. The society has urged India’s GM regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), to prohibit genetic engineering to save animals from suffering. Thanking GEAC [...]
New Delhi, Aug 25 – The nuclear liability bill was tabled in Lok Sabha Wednesday by Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan. ‘We have brought new amendments to clause 17. We have agreed to the (concerns of) principal opposition party, BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and the Left parties,’ Chavan said in the [...]
Bangalore, Aug 25 – The second international space exhibition and conference began here Wednesday with global space agencies and vendors showcasing their latest technologies, products and services. Organised by the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the four-day Bengaluru Space Expo 2010 focuses on commercialisation of space, remote [...]
Kolkata, Aug 24 – West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Tuesday inaugurated Kolkata’s first cyber crime police station set up with technical support from software giant Infosys Technologies. Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said the opening of the cyber crime police station at the police headquarters at Lalbazar was a big step in [...]
New Delhi, Aug 20 – Hand-held biometric devices and Internet kiosks are part of the rural development ministry’s new strategy to ensure greater transparency and accountability in implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The ministry also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to [...]
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