Canberra/Kuala Lumpur, April 26 (IANS) As the 14th day of the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 began Saturday, 95 percent of the underwater search area has been covered, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said in Canberra. Early into Mission 13 Friday the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 was recalled due […]
Aizawl, April 26 (IANS) A 100-seat medical college will come up soon in the northeastern state of Mizoram, an official said here Saturday. “Mizoram government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the union health ministry recently to set up the first ever medical college in the state,” a Mizoram health department official told reporters. […]
Vienna, April 25 (IANS/WAM) The basket of 12 crude oils of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stood at $105.20 a barrel Thursday, against $104.99 Wednesday, according to the OPEC Secretariat. The new OPEC reference basket comprises Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es […]
Washington, April 22 (IANS) Like so many interesting discoveries, this one happened largely by accident. An astronomer has discovered an ‘upside-down planet’ that reveals new method for studying binary star systems. A binary star system is where two stars are so close that their gravitational interaction causes them to orbit about a common centre of […]
London, April 21 (IANS) What if moon emits enough light to make the night sky brighter so that you do not need to switch on power to illuminate roads and streets? A Swedish cosmetics firm Foreo has a definite plan: to brighten the surface of the moon to achieve super night brightness! The idea is […]
New York, April 18 (IANS) In search for life on other planets, NASA astronomers have detected an earth-like planet orbiting the habitable zone of a cool star. Using the planet-hunting NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, researchers identified the planet as Kepler-186f that is 1.11 times the radius of the earth. “The discovery of Kepler-186f is a […]
New Delhi, April 18(IANS) The Supreme Court order Thursday that the national auditor CAG can audit telecom operators could open a Pandora’s box and lead to similar demand in other industries, unhappy service providers said. “Yes, whatever judgment Supreme Court has given to us we will abide by it. But it has certain other connotations […]
Tehran, April 18 (IANS/WAM) An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck an area near Shanbeh town of Bushehr province in Southern Iran Thursday. The epicentre of the quake was located at 51.61 degrees longitude and 28.54 degrees latitude. The quake occurred in the morning. No casualties were reported.
Bangalore, April 9 (IANS) India’s maiden mission to Mars is on course, with its spacecraft Orbiter crossing the halfway mark on its voyage to the red planet, four months after it left Earth Dec 1. “The spacecraft Wednesday at 9.50 a.m. crossed the halfway mark of its journey to Mars along the designated helio (sun)-centric trajectory […]
Chennai, April 9 (IANS) India’s Mars Orbiter has travelled over 340 million km and crossed the half-way mark Wednesday morning on its long journey towards the Red planet, the Indian space agency said. In a statement, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the Mars Orbiter had crossed the half-way mark along the designated helio-centric trajectory. […]