Indian nuclear scientists will take three steps to improve their experience and expertise before they start on the design of a 1,000 MW fast breeder reactor that will not only generate electricity, but produce more fuel than it consumes.
Building a new 120 MW test reactor powered by metallic fuel, setting up a 500 MW [...]
A $100 million Oman India fund that will invest in various sectors in both countries is expected to be launched shortly. Oman is looking forward to invest in India’s small and medium enterprises.
‘The joint investment fund whose corpus will be contributed equally by both countries will be launched soon,’ Oman’s Minister of Commerce and [...]
Do you love sushi and sashimi but don’t know where to get it? Now you won’t have to travel far as a 16-day food festival from the land of the rising sun has started at the Courtyard Marriott hotel here.
‘Nearly 15 percent of our guests are from Asian countries. They have been requesting Japanese [...]
The state visit of German President Horst Kohler early next month to India will see the two countries inking cooperation agreements in the areas of economy, technology and defence training.
‘We will sign an agreement on economy-technology cooperation worth euro 350 million ($508 million/Rs.23 billion) and one to fight terrorism,’ German ambassador to India Thomas [...]
Chennai, Jan 2 (IANS) The fishing community in Poompuhar, one of the coastal districts affected by the 2004 tsunami, is now looking forward to a new beginning in 2010, thanks to the setting up of a centre to process their catch.
The question of how to help those who lost their livelihood was debated at the [...]
Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu), Dec 25 (IANS) Collectively they are called tsunami children, those who lost one or both parents to the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit the state on Dec 26, 2004. Of them, 55 girls and three boys live in the Annai Sathya Government Orphanage here. They don’t want to think of that day [...]
Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu), Dec 25 (IANS) Lily, 14, was born in a fishing family in Vanagiri near Poompuhar, almost right on the beach. But she gets tense every time she hears the sea howl.
Her father Chinnathambi no longer wanders on the beach in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district — around 300 km from Chennai — after [...]
Chennai, Dec 24 (IANS) Thirty-nine year old Raghupathy Vaidyanathan, an executive in a city-based software company, will celebrate his ‘fifth’ birthday along with his wife and two children Dec 26 – the day he was ‘reborn’.
‘That was the day I and my family were reborn,’ he told IANS, explaining how he escaped death that stared [...]
Chennai, Dec 14 (IANS) With its product portfolio expected to jump to nine models soon from the current two and competition set to heat up the Indian car market next year, Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nissan Motors, Japan, is getting ready for the fight, first by beefing up its [...]
Chennai, Dec 6 (IANS) The Indian space agency is expected to take a major step in January towards realising its next generation rocket by ground-firing the world’s third largest – in terms of fuel mass and length – solid rocket booster developed in-house.
An Indian Space Reasearch Organisation (ISRO) official said: ‘The large solid propellant booster [...]
Chennai, Dec 4 (IANS) India’s heaviest rocket – the 49-metre tall, 414-tonne Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV), powered by the indigenous cryogenic engine, will be launched in January 2010, making it a member of the select club of countries possessing this technology.
Officials of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) say the space agency will start the new [...]
Chennai, Nov 29 (IANS) Workers at the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka are a shaken lot after the drinking water of a laboratory cooler was found contaminated with radioactive Tritium, suspected to be an act of sabotage.
Fifty-five employees drank the contaminated water on Nov 24 and were hospitalised. Many of them were discharged later.
The [...]
Chennai, Nov 10 (IANS) Though fakes affect genuine business, there is sometimes a positive rub-off in the form of spreading a designer’s fame, feels a young designer.
‘I consider fake designer wears as flattery for the designer. In India one has to live with it. I don’t have plans to copyright my designs now,’ Nishka [...]
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 needs, said
Madhavan Nair, who retired Saturday as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
‘Our programmes are based on the practical needs of the people like [...]
Chennai, Oct 28 (IANS) Armed with the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s (AERB) clearance for erection of major nuclear reactor components, officials of Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam (Bhavini) building the Rs.5,600 crore fast reactor near here are gearing up for constructing the huge main vessel.
India’s first indigenously designed breeder reactor — which breeds more material for [...]
Chennai, Oct 27 (IANS) After its maiden moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to cross another milestone in December – take India into the exclusive club of countries that have developed their own cryogenic engines to power satellites in space.
ISRO is hoping to end 2009 in style with the take-off of [...]
Chennai, Sep 24 (IANS) The sensational discovery of water molecules on the lunar surface by an instrument owned by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried by India’s Chandrayaan-1 has been termed by scientists as a ‘very precious find’.
‘Moon water is more precious than gold,’ an Indian space scientist told IANS, declining [...]
Chennai, Sep 24 (IANS) The sensational discovery of water molecules on the lunar surface by an instrument owned by the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried by India’s Chandrayaan-1 has been termed by scientists as a ‘very precious find’.
‘Moon water is more precious than gold,’ an Indian space scientist told IANS, declining [...]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 23 (IANS) Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) do not just rely on scientific calculations before a rocket launch – they also seek divine help.
Prior to every launch, the scientists make a visit to Tirupathi to have a ‘darshan’ of Lord Balaji seeking his blessings by placing a [...]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 23 (IANS) India Wednesday successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite, the Rs.160-crore ($32 million) Oceansat-2, to study oceans and climate, and six small European satellites on board a rocket that blasted off from here.
Under a clear blue sky, the 44.4-metre tall, 230-tonne Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), built at [...]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 23 (IANS) India Wednesday successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite, Oceansat-2, to study oceans and climate, and six small Europeans satellites on board a rocket that blasted off from here.
Under a clear blue sky, the 44.4-metre tall, 230-tonne Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) freed itself from the launch pad [...]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 23 (IANS) India successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six small Europeans satellites on board a rocket that blasted off from here at 11.51 a.m. Wednesday.
The 44.4-metre tall, 230-tonne Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) freed itself from the launch pad at the spaceport and lifted itself up, [...]
