New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) An Indian American scientist was Saturday asked to vacate his government house here in three days, nearly two weeks after being sacked from a senior post at ...

By Syed Zarir Hussain Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 7 (IANS) The picturesque border town of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh is all set to welcome the Dalai Lama Sunday on a visit ...

By Ranjan Bhaduri Washington, Nov. 6, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The NASA's Mercury venture has given another insight to the scientists regarding the allegedly densest planet in our system. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which took its ...

Washington, Nov 6 (IANS) Three-year-old children who are exposed to more TV appear to be at an increased risk for exhibiting aggressive behaviour, according to new research. "Early childhood aggression can be ...

Washington, Nov 6 (IANS) From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study. The findings suggest that infants begin picking up ...

Srinagar, Nov 6 (IANS) Kashmir's opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) activists led by president Mehbooba Mufti Friday undertook a peaceful march to Lal Chowk to protest the decision to withdraw prepaid ...

By Shweta Srinivasan and Astha New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are doing a last round of checks of the computer-based system they will use for the first ...

New York, Nov 6 (IANS) Professor Yash Pal of India has won the annual Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science along with a Vietnamese professor, a Tunisian expert in water management ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The Delhi Metro's Airport Express Line that promises to take you from central Delhi to the airport in 18 minutes flat will also provide check-in facility at ...

Bhopal, Nov 5 (IANS) The government would roll out the first set of Unique Identification Cards (UIDs) in the next 12-18 months, Unique Identification Authority of India Chairman Nandan Nilekani has said. ...

Jammu, Nov 5 (IANS) Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah told Home Minister P. Chidambaram to reconsider the continuation of the ban on pre-paid mobile services in Jammu ...

Jammu, Nov 4 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday evening ruled out lifting the ban on pre-paid mobile connections in Jammu and Kashmir in the near future. Addressing a press conference in ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 4 (IANS) A study led by an Indian-origin researcher has found that a drug that raises levels of 'good' cholesterol can also help clear clogged arteries in ...

By Rajat Rai Lucknow, Nov 4 (IANS) About 50,000 pirated DVDs of Microsoft Windows 7 are estimated to have been sold here since the official launch on Oct 22, generating unaccounted business of ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) US scientists say a new mite discovered by their counterparts at the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) and christened Mangalaus represents "a new genus". The ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) English news channel NewsX has now made its videos available on mobile phones with just a 30-second delay from what is seen on the TV. The service ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Tuesday said it will conduct an entrance test again in next 10 days, after its online test system for engineering ...

By Shweta Srinivasan Pokhara (Nepal), Nov 3 (IANS) Ask them the capital of Belgium and each of the 25 students, bubbling with excitement, clicks away on Google search. Within seconds, uncertain only of ...

Moscow, Nov 2 (RIA Novosti) A carrier rocket with two European satellites has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space centre in northwest Russia, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said ...

Sydney, Nov 2 (IANS) An increased waistline is not only bad for your health but can lead to decreased bedroom activity, according to researchers. "I'm exploring the effects of being overweight or ...

New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The new industrial policy of Delhi would be technology driven, permitting hi-tech, sophisticated IT enabled services to boost revenues and deter polluting industries, a government official said ...

By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Oct 31 (IANS) India does not look at other Asian countries like Japan and China as competitors in the space sector as its programmes are based on its ...

Beijing, Oct 31 (IANS) China's space scientist Qian Xuesen, widely known as the father of the country's space technology, died here Saturday morning at the age of 98, Xinhua news agency reported. ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 31 (IANS) Eminent scientist K. Radhakrishnan Saturday took over as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre here and acknowledged the expectations ...

San Francisco, Oct 31 (DPA) The organisation that oversees the internet has authorised the use of non-Latin characters in domain names in a move that should help the web grow around the ...

San Francisco, Oct 30 (DPA) Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay $711 million in damages for bombarding Facebook members with unwanted messages, the social networking site said Friday. The ...

Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Eminent scientist Anil Kakodkar, who played a strategic role in clinching the India-US civilian nuclear deal last year, will retire as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ...

Seoul, Oct 30 (DPA) Plans are in motion to create fully "internationalised" Web addresses - those completely in non-Latin scripts like Korean or Arabic, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Oct 30 (IANS) A leading NASA scientist, credited with helping discover water on the Moon on India's Chandrayaan mission, who has been arrested on charges of spying for ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) In a unique revolution in the publishing world, two Indian books have made their debut in the virtual world. Converted into the e-book format, both these books ...