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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

Simons Investigators Awards 2013 to four Indian-Americans

Four Indian American Professors Kannan Soundararajan, Rajeev Alur, Salil P Vadhan and Senthil Todadri are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have won...

July 31, 2013

WikiLeaks party launched by Julian Assange to contest Australia polls

Julian Assange (42), an Australian citizen and founder of WikiLeaks has launched his Australian political party WikiLeaks via a video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The party was...

July 30, 2013

German ‘Whistleblower Prize’ to Edward Snowden

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who uncovered the most extensive US global electronic surveillance programmes, has been awarded German “Whistleblower Prize” for year 2013 worth $3,900 in absentia....

July 27, 2013

Hezbollah's military wing added terrorist list by EU

The EU has decided to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations. It was made clear that it would maintain contact with all...

July 25, 2013

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