Days after the Indian Air Force announced that it will induct women as fighter pilots, the Navy has decided to allow women pilots in various streams. However, for now they will be shore-based till necessary infrastructural needs are addressed. The Army and Navy are also looking into the issue of appointing women in combat roles….
KOLKATA: A senior Indian scientist has claimed that the malaria cure artemisinin, the discovery of which fetched a Chinese scientist the Nobel prize in medicine this year, has roots in India. Hyderabad-based Sunil Kumar Verma has fuelled a debate on the basis of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist Youyou Tu for…
The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched a pilot project of a ‘station-based e-catering’ service allowing passengers to order meals as per their choice, which will be delivered at stations from popular private caterers. In the first phase of the project, all trains passing through 45 specified railway stations, including nine in…
The country’s retirement system ranks last in the global pension index, says a study by global consulting major Mercer Still, the National Pension System (NPS), which was launched by the government in June as part of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, will help the country improve its index, the study said. The country’s index value…
The front page of a leading daily has a clutter breaking advertisement from Nestle‘s stable today, bringing readers up to date on the Maggi Noodles ruling. The advertisement further goes on to reassure them that they will be able to eat their favourite noodles soon. To be able to break clutter in the festive month…
India would launch six satellites from Singapore, including a dedicated 500 kg earth observation spacecraft, in mid-December, a top space official said on Friday. “The 500 kg dedicated satellite (TeLOS-1)will be a commercial launch for Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd while five other smaller satellites are from Singapore universities,” Indian space agency’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation…
BENGALURU: A tiny chip designed in Bengaluru, the size of a postage stamp, might hold the answer to connecting India’s rural population to the Internet, an ambitious goal being chased by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft. The chip, called Pruthvi, powers a system which can use television White Space — or wasted spectrum…
Vijayawada: Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has urged each citizen to buy “e-bricks” at Rs. 10 each for new capital Amaravati. The website “My Brick My Amaravati” was launched by Mr Naidu on Thursday in Vijayawada, which has been his makeshift base since Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated and a separate Telangana was…
NEW DELHI: Making the most of mobile platform and its increased penetration, Railways today launched facilities for booking of paperless unreserved tickets as well as platform tickets to cut queues at the reservation counters. The initiatives are mostly targetted at the Mumbai suburban sections to begin with where 75 lakh passengers use the local train…
On Day 2 of his campaign blitzkreig ahead of first phase of Bihar Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi escalated his fight against Lalu, Nitish combine. Accusing Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of backstabbing former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) is an ally of the NDA, he said people will punish both…
