This blunt speaking son of the soil dares to point out the mistakes commited by the Govt in the past decades and challenges the govt policies eventhough he is apparently the next candidate to be the Chief of the Air staff. He has already started his job
IAF Vice Chief, Air Marshall Pranab...
Tuesday,24 November 2009
Kanak Gogoi, a 12th passed entrepreneur from Guwahati, has over a dozen innovations, from gravity-operated bicycle to a car which can run on air. But he regrets the government's negligence towards scientific innovations, and refuses to commercialize any of his...
Chandrayaan was a success: Mike Fincke
The Hindu , Front Page
Saturday, Sep 12, 2009
GUWAHATI: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Edward Michael Fincke said on Friday the Chandrayaan Mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was a success...
BEML delivers first standard gauge coaches for Delhi Metro
Saturday, Sep 12, 2009
Union Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa symbolically handed over the first indigenously developed 80-tonne aluminium wagon developed by BEML to the National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO)...
Kalari Payattu , The martial arts from Kerala
Kalaripayattu - The Orient's treasure trove, a gift to the modern world and the mother of all martial arts. Legend traces the 3000-year-old art form to Sage Parasurama- the master of all martial art forms and credited to be the re-claimer of...
25 Jun 2009
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday set in motion the process of providing a Unique Identification Number to India's citizens and appointed Nandan Nilekani. Infosys Technologies co-chairman Nandan Nilekani as head of an authority for this purpose.
The move to set up the UID...
Pakistan built up army against India with US military aid
6 Jun 2009, 1301 hrs IST, PTI
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has used a substantial amount of military aid from the US meant to fight terrorism to build up its army with modern weapons and
equipment for a conventional warfare against...
Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 23rd May 09
The prospects for Indias most promising defence export the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) have just been dealt an unexpected blow. Indias Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has turned down a Bolivian request for a line of credit to...
Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd (ASSL) of Bangladesh has delivered the first ocean going multipurpose ship Stella Maris to Demark on May 15. Bangladesh has now become an ocean going shipbuilding nation. ASSL established in 1983, is one of the largest shipbuilding & ship repairing yard in...
China to approach Infosys, TCS
GURGAON: China would approach Indian software majors such as Infosys and HCL to set up units in IT and BPO parks, which will come up in Jiaxing ci
ty, a Chinese official said today.
Jiaxing city plans to set up three to five IT/BPO parks and is now in the...
Project 17-A: French shipyard, DCNS, leads in race to be design consultant
Major global warship-makers are carefully watching the Indian Navys Project 17-A, potentially Indias biggest-ever naval purchase, a Rs 17,000 crore plan to build seven stealth frigates. And French shipbuilder, DCNS...
Chinese J-10 'benefited from the Lavi project'
By Robert Hewson
19 May 2008
Russian aerospace engineers have confirmed to Jane's that China's Chengdu J-10 fighter aircraft benefited from significant, direct input from Israel's Lavi programme - including access to the Israel Aircraft...
China censors Obama's reference to communism
21 Jan 2009, 1149 hrs IST, REUTERS
BEIJING: Websites in China censored US President Barack Obama's references to communism and dissent in his inauguration speech and state television
abruptly turned away from the broadcast once...