A group of students from SRM University won second prize in a competition held last month. They successfully launched CanSat, a model satellite to read atmospheric conditions. The American Astronautical Society (AAS) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) organized the competition called Planetary Atmospheric Entry Vehicle at Texas. It
According to a UN report, major global companies have India as their third favored destination after China and US. It is expected that investment flows can increase by over 20% this year and the next. The FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) flow in India has risen by 30% to around $32 billion in
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as already faced a lot of disgrace by being termed as a robot, remote controlled, puppet and a lot more. After facing such criticism from his fellow countrymen, outsiders are also hitting him now. He has long been lauded for his pivotal role in liberalising the Indian economy.
There may be lack of jobs in India or anti-outsourcing policies coming up in USA. Still there are opportunities. For skilled and talented Indians looking for work, there is a new and interesting vast market out there called freelancing which is blooming and paying well. The global online market is
Ramilaben Govindbhai Patel has never been to any kind of college but at the age of 43, she still makes more money than many CEOs make. She made a total profit of Rs. 1.10 crore during the year 2011-12. And the interesting part is that she made all this money
Till now we had only heard of botnets on PCs that usually spam us from hacked email accounts from unknown places. But now they have gone mobile. Terry Zink, Microsoft researcher claims that he has discovered evidence against an illegal botnet has hijacked smartphones running on Google’s Android operating system and used
Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday,took back his decision of allowing all MLAs to purchase cars worth up to Rs 20 lakh from the local area development fund. Within a period of three weeks, it’s the second time he has been forced to revoke his decision within
Researchers have demonstrated that how a drone could be remotely commandeered by tricking its GPS signals. Last year, one of USA’s drones disappeared in Iran. Iranian government has claimed that they had steered it off by interfering with its GPS signals. Such a GPS spoofing attack was considered theoretical till now.
The discovery of God Particle for the understanding of formation of universe has an interesting connection with India. A large number of Indian scientists from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad and Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, were involved in the experiment over
Indian-Australian actress, Pallavi Sharda to be against Ranbir Kapoor in their upcoming movie, Besharam Pallavi Sharda has finally got her first big break in Bollywood in the upcoming movie, Besharam. But its not the first time when she is acting in a Bollywood movie. She has been seen earlier in
The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry today called the anti-Naxal operation that took place in Chhattisgarh completely unacceptable and targeted the state’s BJP government. In total, 19 people were killed in this operation which are suspected to be common villagers. The Tribal Affairs minister, V Kishore Chandra Deo has said about raising
This operation has been described as a great success in the battle against Naxalism. On Friday, CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) and the state police of Chhattisgarh killed 19 people. Officials say that all these people were Naxals. But there are a series of challenging allegations by opposition parties and
When the common man is already dying under the burden of inflation and corruption, the new service tax regime will make it more difficult for him to survive. The government of India is rolling out a new tax regime based on negative concept list. The definition of ‘Services’ has been
Researchers from Rice University, Texas have invented an interesting paintable battery which could be literally used anywhere. Another interesting fact is that, the battery is rechargeable and can can store a charge of 2.4 volts upto 6 hours. The battery was sprayed onto a variety of surfaces, including ceramic bathroom
The time of booking of Tatkal tickets is revised by the Indian Railways. The changes will take effect from 10 July. This has been done in order to prevent touts from cornering tickets. Now the booking of Tatkal tickets would be allowed only one day in advance. And the booking will
Arvind Kejriwal, Team Anna member, today said that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was protecting his cabinet colleagues by not allowing prosecution against them. When asked if Narendra Modi is corrupt too, Kejriwal said, “I don’t have evidence which shows that Modi is corrupt, but at least Modi is protecting his cabinet colleagues,
Today, P A Sangma virtually dared UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee for a debate ahead of presidential polls, saying democracy needs debate. In a democracy, people have the right to choose their leader and there should be a debate as economy is sinking and scams are growing. Sangma said, “Who is responsible for all this
For starters, she’s an Indian model/actress who has a strange karmic connection with Deepika Padukone It is interesting that even after the presence of big stars like Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone, the third actor in Homi Adajania’s Cocktail has managed to get everyone’s attention. She is Diana Penty, an Indian model. Most
At Google I/O 2012, Google revealed that Android 4.1 would arrive on Nexus devices in “mid-July”, however it is still not clear that which companies would be pushing it to their products. When everyone was expecting Android 5.0, they got 4.1, just a 0.1 leap ahead. It’s the similar feeling that
When it came into news that Microsoft is removing the start button from its new Windows 8 for good, many fans of its functionality were unhappy. Microsoft has now explained it to the world that why it has removed the start button which was there in every version of Microsoft
Gaining access to your home, gym, office and other buildings that you regularly visit could become as simple as waving a hand at the front door in the future. A Hunsville, Ala.-based company called IDair is developing an interesting system that can scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away. By merging with other
New and interesting bio-fuel cells of the future will generate power from glucose sugar present inside snail’s body. This could be achieved by drilling holes through the shell and implant enzyme-coated electrodes in the hemolymph (or snail blood) that naturally collects between the snail’s body and shell. This battery is also based on
Google’s latest and interesting X Lab project is about something that is performed by the internet public everyday. At Google’s Mountain View’s secret lab, they joined together 1,000 computers totaling 16,000 cores to form a neural network with over 1 billion connections, and sent it to YouTube looking for cats. Unlike the popular
A team of scientists from Stanford are planning to sit Stephen Hawking down in a room, place a device on his head, and literally hack his brain to figure out what is going on there inside it. The scientists have developed a tool called iBrain and they will do this at a conference in
If you believe that the WiFi at your home is fast then you need to think again. Scientists are working on a new method for wireless data transmission and they can now transfer data at a super fast speed of 2.5 Tb/p. If the super speed of 2.5 Tb/s doesn’t
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