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. […]
Beijing, April 9 (IANS) Large, pictorial warnings on tobacco packets leads to greater motivation among smokers to quit and lowers motivation among non-smokers to start up, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has said. “Evidence from around the world shows that large, pictorial warnings significantly increase effectiveness of pack warning labels by increasing knowledge, awareness and […]
New York, April 5 Not happy with the current network providers to your mobile phone? You might soon get a better option – Google! After providing the world’s most popular phone software and offering one of the fastest broadband speeds in the US, Google is now planning to become your mobile network operator. According to […]
Washington, April 4 The government acknowledged Thursday that the US Agency for International Development launched a project in Cuba to create a Twitter-like social network to increase Cubans’ access to information but rejected describing the programme as covert. “Suggestions this was a covert programme are wrong,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said during his […]
Washington, April 4 New gravity data from the Cassini spacecraft showed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, harbours a large, possibly regional subsurface ocean with a rocky seafloor. The study, published Thursday in the US journal Science, indicated that a roughly 10-km-thick layer of liquid water lies beneath 30 to 40 km of crustal […]
London, April 3 (IANS) The secret about when the midnight romance under a full-blown moon night on earth began is out. A heartening discovery by an international team of planetary scientists has revealed that the moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system. “We were excited to find a ‘geological clock’ […]
Bangalore, April 3 (IANS) Agitating workers of auto maker Toyota India resorted to an indefinite fast as a stand-off with the company’s management continued 10 days after a week-long lockout was lifted March 24. “As the management is not ready to consider our demand that it should not insist on signing a conduct letter to resume […]