Kolkata engineer designs wonder rickshaw (With Images)
June 15th, 2012 - 2:34 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 15 (IANS) A Kolkata engineer has designed a cycle-rickshaw that uses passenger load to push the vehicle and reduces the puller's drudgery by using bumps on the road ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Design your own workspace for better health and productivity
September 8th, 2010 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 08 (ANI): A new research from the University of Exeter in the UK has suggested that employees who have control over the design and layout of their workspace are not ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Hataria holds nerves to win Formula Rolon race
July 18th, 2010 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
Coimbatore, July 18 (IANS) Sarosh Hataria, the 30-year old from Chennai and in Meco Racing livery, survived an errant car and a red flag stoppage to win the Formula Rolon race in ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
NASA’s eco-friendly, cheaper airplanes to hit runways by 2050
May 19th, 2010 - 5:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 19 (ANI): In a bid to cut costs and pollution spewed by today's aircrafts, researchers at MIT are designing a completely new type of airplane for NASA that will enable ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
82 percent of projects tardy, exceeded costs: Survey
March 11th, 2010 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) About 82 percent of the infrastructure projects during April 1992-March 2009 overshot their scheduled completion dates while 41 percent faced cost over-runs, said a survey released ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Turkish Airlines orders twenty Boeing 737 airplanes
March 8th, 2010 - 3:32 pm ICT by BNO News
SEATTLE (BNO NEWS) -- Turkish Airlines has ordered 20 Next-Generation Boeing 737 airplanes in a deal valued at $1.6 billion, the companies said on Monday.The order, valued at $1.6 billion at current ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Obamas fleet of copters to cost 1.8 billion dollars more
March 6th, 2009 - 5:01 pm ICT by ANI
The defense contractor building a fleet of new presidential helicopters has privately advised the Pentagon that its total cost has gone up by at least 1.8 billion dollars in the past ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Punjab ropes in JNU dons to reform state
February 8th, 2009 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Feb 7 (IANS) The Punjab government Saturday announced the setting up of a commission of eminent personalities, including academics and retired bureaucrats, to help reform the state.
Setting up the Social ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
U.S. physicist develops electrifying theory
August 17th, 2008 - 2:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 17 (ANI): A theory that may help build future superconducting alternating-current fault-current limiters for electricity transmission and distribution systems has been developed, thanks to the efforts of a physicist ... Read more...
Posted in National |