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With cricket World Cup fever in full force, LG has launched its limited edition Optimus One P500 phone to mark the event of the ICC World Cup 2011. This collector s item stylish phone is different from the normal edition phone it sports a shiny gold World Cup logo etched on it back. The Optimux [...]
The US has removed nine Indian space and defense related companies including those from ISRO and DRDO from its export control ‘Entity List’ in an attempt to expand high technology trade and strategic cooperation with India. The US decision meets a long pending Indian demand and is the first step to implement the export control [...]
India on Wednesday test-fired two Prithvi-II nuclear-capable ballistic missiles within an hour from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) as part of user trials by the Army at Chandipur off Orissa coast. “The surface-to-surface missiles mounted on mobile launchers were test-fired from the launch complex-3 in the ITR at around 0815 and 0915 hours”, defence sources [...]
India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’ has successfully completed air-to-air close combat missile firing tests on Tuesday, ahead of its clearance for induction into the IAF. The tests for firing of R-73 missiles took place at the INS Hansa naval air base in Goa on Tuesday where the LCA detachment is currently based as part [...]
India’s 20th nuclear power plant Saturday became operational at Kaiga in Karnataka taking the total installed atomic power capacity in the country to 4780 MW. The indigenously-developed 220 MW capacity Unit 4 of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station attained criticality at 8.07.22 am making India the sixth country in the world to have 20 or [...]
The signature kerosene and petromax lamps dotting hawker shops in parts of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are gradually being replaced with solar powered lighting devices being brought in by environment-friendly initiatives of an energy conscious organistaion. Around 300 hawkers in Faridabad, Palwal and Agra have in the past few years switched to solar lamps provided [...]
India is getting ready for two rocket launches next month with Russian and Singaporean payloads for strengthening space-based communication and remote sensing services back home. First to go up would be Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), carrying GSAT-5 Prime with 24 normal C-band transponders and 12 Extended C-band transponders to augment communication services vis–vis television, [...]
The first images via Google’s Street View service in Germany are live after months of wrangling over privacy. The first town to be mapped on the service is Oberstaufen, in Bavaria. Germany is the first country to have negotiated with Google to allow citizens to opt out before the service goes live. Almost 250,000 Germans [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday gave away the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2009 and 2010 to 20 scientists for their achievement in the field of science and technology. For the first time in the 53-year-old history of the Prize, three awards were bagged by women scientists for the year 2010. The Prize [...]
In what could open up the world for people suffering from neurological disorders, scientists have developed a new machine that allows such individuals to play computer games using just the power of their thoughts. Developed by researchers at the University of California and California Institute of Technology, the device has enabled people to move a [...]