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Foreign Telecom vendors’ refusal to share design details delays TTSCC

Foreign telecom equipment vendors have refused to share their design details with the India’s telecom equipment testing lab- Telecom Testing and Security Certification Centre (TTSCC) for it may conflict with...

August 12, 2013

Amazon’s Jeffrey Bezos to buy Washington Post

The Washington Post, an American daily newspaper, has announced its sale to Amazon founder and CEO Jeffrey P Bezos. Bezos has agreed to buy the newspaper assets of...

August 8, 2013

Agni V missile expected to be operational by 2015

According to Tessy Thomas, director, Agni Missile Project, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), two or three more successful test firings, the Agni V missile is likely to be operational by 2015. Salient...

August 6, 2013

Research links Climate Change to Human Conflict

As per a latest study from University of California, Berkeley which analysed 60 studies on climate change, by 2050, human conflict could rise by 50% due to the...

August 6, 2013

India to launch indigenous Aircraft Carrier project

India will launch its biggest ever Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) project, in terms of size and complexity of design, on August 12 at Kochi. Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)...

August 4, 2013

Mechanism behind brains ability to pay attention unveiled

Researchers from Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the University of California Davis have decoded the cellular mechanisms behind human brain’s ability to pay attention to relevant information...

August 3, 2013

MPA signed for the construction of Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

Five countries participating in the project TMT- Canada, China, India, Japan and the U.S. have inked Master Partnership Agreement (MPA) for the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope...

July 31, 2013

By 2016, India to be the 3rd largest automobile market: IHS

As per IHS Automotive, a global market information provider India will become the 3rd largest automotive market in the world by 2016 ahead of Japan, Germany and Brazil with...

July 31, 2013

Bradley Manning faces 130 years of imprisonment

Bradley Manning has been prosecuted by the U.S. government for being the whistleblower behind Wikileak’s publication of confidential State Department cables and video evidence of U.S. military attacks in...

July 31, 2013

Variations in structure of brain arteries cause Migraine

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that variations in arterial anatomy of brain lead to the asymmetries in cerebral blood...

July 31, 2013

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