A high level meeting of scientists held at the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota cleared the launch of PSLV-C17 on Wednesday. The Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) for PSLV-C17/GSAT-12 mission has scheduled the launch for Friday at 04.48pm. The LAB has [...]
Wasn’t it only a week ago that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was explaining to us yet again that we’re all sharing more and more things with more and more people because we need to spread more and more of our [...]
While corporate affairs minister M Veerappa Moily denied he was unhappy over being moved from the law ministry, the blame game over setbacks suffered by the government is not likely to be settled soon as the leader resents being held [...]
Pradeep Kumar, the outgoing defence secretary and the next Chief Vigilance Commissioner, says corruption remains a very major challenge and would have to be dealt at all levels. Kumar will be sworn in as the CVC on Thursday, almost four [...]
The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to hear a plea seeking direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to include industrialists Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani along with lobbyist Niira Radia as co-accused in the 2G telecom spectrum [...]
The government seems to have made up its mind about not trying to persuade solicitor general Gopal Subramanium to withdraw his resignation. Newly-appointed law minister Salman Khursheed made this clear on Wednesday while responding to a question about whether the [...]
First there was news. Then outrage. And then help. As TV channels flashed information about the bomb blasts, the news spread fast across the web. With confusion on the ground in Mumbai and phone networks choked, people used Twitter and [...]
Microsoft says that it has sold 400m Windows 7 licences. As I noted back at the end of April when Microsoft said it had shipped 350m licences, the takeup has gone better, proportional to the total number of PCs sold [...]
As the Google+ invasion continues, Facebook is feeling the heat. Although Facebook still has over 700 million users, some estimates say that Google’s social network is on track to top 20 million users by this weekend. That’s over 1 million [...]
Consumers increasingly trust websites due to a general improvement in the aesthetics of the internet, according to a new report. According to a study by the University of Melbourne internet consumers are 20% more trusting of websites than they were [...]
Salt is addictive in the same way as cigarettes or hard drugs, a study has found. The findings could help explain why many find it so hard to cut back on salt, despite warnings about dangers to blood pressure and [...]
As a part of the promotion of Aarakshan, the actor had to lecture students. But Lucknow University has denied him permission. Prakash Jha’s plans of taking Amitabh Bachchan to address students and teachers on the issue of job reservation to [...]