Thiruvananthapuram, March 9 – About 100 space debris experts who are taking part in the three-day meet of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination (IADC) Committee here Tuesday expressed concern in the increase in the space debris which is posing a serious threat to spacecrafts.
Inaugurating the meeting Tuesday B.N. Suresh, director of the Indian Institute of [...]
New Delhi, March 7 – The government has begun an ambitious programme to wire up the entire northeast and remote border regions with telecom, wimax and broadband connectivity and unleash an IT revolution in the region, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
‘I believe that the northeast can become a big centre [...]
New Delhi, March 7 – India needs much better telecom and broadband connectivity not just to sustain high growth and empower citizens of this vast and diverse nation but also to break barriers of caste, religion and ethnicity, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
‘We want to make our country much more [...]
Kanpur, March 6 – President Pratibha Patil Saturday buried a ‘Time Capsule’ on the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) campus on the occasion of its golden jubilee celebrations and also unveiled a nanosatellite developed by the institute.
The capsule, which is made of a special metal, contains pen-drives, chips, images and several other documents related to [...]
Bangalore, March 6 – India’s test of its new geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) has had to be aborted after 150 seconds.
‘The 200-second test, conducted at the liquid propulsion systems centre at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu Friday, was aborted after 150 seconds when a deviation in one of the 500 parameters was noticed,’ ISRO [...]
New Delhi, March 5 – The Municipal Corporation of Delhi Friday signed an agreement with leading IT company Tech Mahindra to facilitate the civic body’s paperless administration and enable its switch to e-governance.
‘MCD’s e-governance project implementation commenced today (Friday) with the signing of the agreement between MCD and Tech Mahindra. With this, MCD’s initiative towards [...]
Bangalore, March 4 – India successfully conducted the flight test of a new rocket that will drastically reduce the cost of its launch vehicles by using oxygen in the atmosphere to propel the spacecraft, a senior space official said Thursday.
‘The flight test of the advanced sounding rocket Wednesday demonstrated our capability to reduce the cost [...]
Kolkata, March 4 – Telecom service provider Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL) Thursday announced the launch of DIALOG, a product that enables customers to connect to the internet on their television set.
Customers can access the internet without a desktop or laptop, transforming the TV set into a multimedia device with the help of DIALOG.
‘We are launching [...]
Bangalore, March 4 – India successfully conducted the flight test of its new generation high-performance sounding rocket from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the space agency said Thursday.
‘The test was successfully conducted Wednesday at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, about 80 km north-east of Chennai,’ the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation [...]
Lucknow, March 2 – Uttar Pradesh’s first DNA laboratory with an additional lie-detector facility is coming up here.
Set up on the premises of the existing forensic science laboratory, the new facilities would become operational by the end of March, Inspector General of Police (Technical Services) R.N. Singh told IANS Tuesday.
Till now, DNA samples have to [...]
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