New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Idea Cellular Monday resumed 3G services services through intra-circle roaming (ICR), across 10 circles, the company said here. This came within a week of the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) allowing telecom service providers to provide 3G services beyond their licensed areas, quashing an earlier decision of the government. […]
Toronto, April 30 (IANS) Are astronomers being fooled by signs of life on exoplanets? This may well be the case if we believe a significant research, suggesting that the search for life on planets outside our solar system may be more difficult than previously thought. The presence of multiple chemicals such as methane and oxygen in […]
New York, April 30 (IANS) If you have not been able to reduce that stubborn fat around your belly, shun your dietician. Now, turn to your smart phone to help you reduce those extra kilos in a better, more professional way. Smart phone applications can help dieters integrate healthy behaviour changes into their daily lives, researchers […]
SAFETY on Melbourne’s West Gate Freeway has been improved following a $25 million smart technology investment. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss said that an electronic freeway management system, similar to the one on the Monash Freeway and the M80 Ring Road, has been installed on the city’s second […]
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 […]