Bhubaneswar, March 12 – The Orissa government website has gone blank since last two days due to some technical snag and officials of the state government and the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which hosts the site, are blaming each other.
The Delhi excise department’s website appeared Thursday if one logged on to www.orissa.gov.in.
‘We can’t say it [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – Wondering whether your child is going to be good in sports? Here is a way to find out. A private laboratory chain in India Thursday launched a novel sports gene test that can provide answer to such queries.
The laboratory chain said that the answer to a child excelling or not [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – Sky gazers are set for a week-long celestial treat from Saturday with the start of Messier marathon, an annual astronomy event.
The event is named after French astronomer Charles Messier, who compiled a list of 110 relatively bright deep sky objects – galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. The list is known [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 9 – About 100 space debris experts who are taking part in the three-day meet of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination (IADC) Committee here Tuesday expressed concern in the increase in the space debris which is posing a serious threat to spacecrafts.
Inaugurating the meeting Tuesday B.N. Suresh, director of the Indian Institute of [...]
New Delhi, March 7 – India needs much better telecom and broadband connectivity not just to sustain high growth and empower citizens of this vast and diverse nation but also to break barriers of caste, religion and ethnicity, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
‘We want to make our country much more [...]
New Delhi, March 7 – The government has begun an ambitious programme to wire up the entire northeast and remote border regions with telecom, wimax and broadband connectivity and unleash an IT revolution in the region, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
‘I believe that the northeast can become a big centre [...]
Kanpur, March 6 – President Pratibha Patil Saturday buried a ‘Time Capsule’ on the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) campus on the occasion of its golden jubilee celebrations and also unveiled a nanosatellite developed by the institute.
The capsule, which is made of a special metal, contains pen-drives, chips, images and several other documents related to [...]
Bangalore, March 6 – India’s test of its new geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) has had to be aborted after 150 seconds.
‘The 200-second test, conducted at the liquid propulsion systems centre at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu Friday, was aborted after 150 seconds when a deviation in one of the 500 parameters was noticed,’ ISRO [...]
New Delhi, March 5 – The Municipal Corporation of Delhi Friday signed an agreement with leading IT company Tech Mahindra to facilitate the civic body’s paperless administration and enable its switch to e-governance.
‘MCD’s e-governance project implementation commenced today (Friday) with the signing of the agreement between MCD and Tech Mahindra. With this, MCD’s initiative towards [...]
Kolkata, March 4 – Telecom service provider Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL) Thursday announced the launch of DIALOG, a product that enables customers to connect to the internet on their television set.
Customers can access the internet without a desktop or laptop, transforming the TV set into a multimedia device with the help of DIALOG.
‘We are launching [...]
