U.S.-based Delta Airlines will soon become the world’s first air carrier to produce its own jet fuel. Delta announced it is buying a oil refinery near Philadelphia from...
The Government has instructed all cell phone manufacturers to include radiation tags in mobile handsets to display Specific Absorption Rate, SAR value by the first of September 2012....
The government has finalized the contours of a $10-billion (over Rs. 50,000 crore) infrastructure debt fund (IDF) with 50% participation from a foreign bank and a multilateral agency,...
The 1993 constitution declares Russia a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government. As a federal republic, it adopts the combination of a presidential and...
China successfully launched 2 more satellites for its proposed Beidou Global Navigation and Positioning Network being built to counter the US Global Position System (GPS). With these two...
The Defence Ministry has barred 2 Indian and 4 foreign firms for 10 years from all business dealings due to their engagement in abnormalities in the recent past....
Manu Raju an Indian-American journalist was among the journalists, who have won the White House Correspondents Journalism award for 2012. Manu Raju was honoured with the Merriman Smith...
The Northern Railway has introduced Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVM) for buying platform and second class journey tickets with smart card. The ATVMs will be unmanned and operated...
India and Japan have agreed to launch dialogue mechanisms on cyber and maritime security. The dialogue b/w the two nations will be held at the level of foreign...
Addressing the 3rd Conference of Heads of Election Management Bodies of the SAARC nations in New Delhi, the Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi held that practices like ‘paid...
