Notwithstanding the recent glitches on the Chandrayaan satellite, the Union Cabinet on Friday approved Rupees 500 crores for making of a whole new class telecommunication satellites by the Indian Space Research Organisation. This will now put ISRO’s capabilities closer with that of world’s top satellite manufacturers.
It was Mumbai’s date with the tides, the highest this season and perhaps the tallest in the last decade. The city waited with dread hoping the rain gods, for a change, would give Mumbai a pass.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may for the first time be grilled about his role in the 2002 riots. During the riots more than a thousand people were killed as a reaction against the death of Kar Sevaks on the Sabarmati Express. The high court has now cleared the way to investigate the government’s role [...]
There are reports of another honour killing in a village near Patiala in Punjab. On Wednesday in Haryana’s Jind, a man was beaten to death for marrying a girl against her family’s wishes. These murders are clearly marks of India’s shame.
All the six accused in the fatal attack on professor Sabharwal of Ujjain’s Madhav college in 2007 allegedly by ABVP workers were let off last week. Now there is more to the tale. Another twist in Himanshu Sabharwal’s tale, son of slain Ujjain college professor H S Sabharwal, Himanshu’s accountant Parvinder was found murdered in [...]
The protracted price negotiation for the Gorshkov aircraft carrier between India and Russia came in for sharp criticism on Friday from the CAG, whose latest report rapped the Defence Ministry for the cost escalation of Rs 7,207 crore ($1.82 billion) in four years.
Keep the elite national security guards strictly for fighting terror, that’s the message from the people a day after NDTV’s exclusive story on scaling down VIP security. “The money can be used to make our intelligence agencies more equipped and efficient. The VIP is after all a lay man himself if not elected by this [...]
A diplomatic controversy the government is working desperately to overcome. The inclusion of Balochistan in an India, Pakistan joint statement for the first time ever has even forced Congress party members and UPA allies to stay silent rather than come out in open support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
A well, the lifeline for 4,000 villagers of Dodusan, a border village in North Gujarat, has dried up. Sometimes a little rainwater accumulates and villagers race to collect the drops.
Mumbai-born, US-settled, Dr Vivek Rangnekar, professor of radiation medicine at the University of Kentucky, has in another breakthrough discovered that the Par-4 protein (mass killer of cancer cells) is produced within the human body itself and spreads through circulation to distant organs.