Washington, Dec 18 Executives of leading tech companies Tuesday pressed US President Barack Obama to “move aggressively” to scale back the National Security Agency’s electronic surveillance practice. The executives of the high-tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and AT&T, met with Obama in the White House Tuesday afternoon, Xinhua reported. “We appreciated the opportunity […]
Washington, Dec 18 US space agency NASA said Tuesday that a series of spacewalks will be necessary to repair a faulty cooling system on the International Space Station. Under the current plan, two US astronauts, Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, will venture outside the space station on three separate days of December — 21, 23 […]
New Delhi, Dec 18 Waste water treatment facilities can be hotspots for the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, making them immune to drugs that fight infection, a report said Wednesday. Compiled by 26 experts from around the world, including Chand Wattal who chairs the department of microbiology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the […]
New Delhi, Dec 6 The smooth conduct of India’s elections and the efficient use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and other technology are an eye-opener for many foreign delegations that came here to observe Indian democracy in action. “Despite being the biggest democracy and having a multi-party system, where the chances of problems in the […]
New Delhi, Dec 5 The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Thursday said it has issued 51 crore Aadhaar numbers and is in the process of completing its mandate of covering 60 crore people by the end of the current fiscal. “With generation of about 11 lakh Aadhaar numbers every day, the flagship programme appears […]
Bangalore/Chennai, Dec 1 Cruising at 32km per second, the Indian spacecraft to Mars is now in the sun’s orbit on its way towards the red planet after leaving earth’s gravity early Sunday, making India the first Asian country and fourth in the world to leap into interplanetary space. “The spacecraft (Orbiter) is on course to […]
Chennai, Oct 13 (IANS) The scrapping of moral instruction classes in the schools, the near absence of physical sporting activities and lack of adequate parental supervision at home are some of the reasons for students turning into killers or committing suicides, a cross-section of people in this southern metropolis say. The general lowering of tolerance levels […]
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Suspension orders will be handed over to the principal of B.R. Ambedkar College for allegedly abetting the suicide of a former colleague, the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) said Saturday. Pavitra Bharadwaj, 40, a former laboratory assistant at the college, set herself ablaze Sep 30 outside the office of the Delhi […]
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) First they set fashion trends with their on-screen and red carpet wardrobes. Now actresses like Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Malaika Arora Khan and Deepika Padukone are taking their creative instincts a step further by creating apparel lines for mass brands, which in turn are minting good business. Several labels are thus […]
New Delhi, Oct 1 Cloud computing has in the last few years caught the imagination of IT leaders in emerging nations like India, Brazil and China who are excited about its transformational and innovative potential while in developed markets it is mostly seen as a cost-cutting tool, says a global study. “IT leaders in emerging […]