The monsoons are here, but is your car prepared to enjoy the rain? Or is it going to be a season of puddles, breakdowns and getting stuck in the middle of nowhere.

The magnetic superatom -- a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table -- may have potential biomedical applications such as sensing, imaging and drug delivery. The study, led by Shiv Khanna, physics professor, Virginia Commonwealth University along with collaborators at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad and Naval Research Laboratory in the US, was published in Nature.

A SWOT analysis of the 12 teams involved in the second Twenty20 World Cup in England.

Players are stepping on each other's toes, significant acquisitions are coming and opportunities still abound.

The citation said that he is being recognised for making state-of-the-art healthcare available to the common man at affordable prices, bringing quality medical care to rural areas by establishing a link between doctors and technocrats, using spin-offs of defence technology to create state-of-the-art medical equipment, and launching telemedicine projects connecting remote rural-based hospitals to the super-specialty hospital.

Industrial policy isn't dead. It's thriving in the statesand may be the start of a U.S. comeback strategy

Citroen's Sebastien Loeb clinched a record fifth world title in a row after surviving a late spin to finish third in the Japan Rally on Sunday. Loeb, dubbed the "Michael Schumacher of rallying" for his stranglehold over the sport, has won a record 46 races during a career that began in 1999.

Google.org announces it will help find ways to tap the heat under the earth's surface.

The violence that is rapidly engulfing large parts of Jammu and Kashmir, set off by a controversial government decision to grant a tract of land to a temple trust in Kashmir, threatens to totally disrupt the already tenuous inter-communal relations in the region.

A second successive podium finish eluded Karun Chandhok as the iSport International driver finished fourth in the feature race of the GP2 series at the Hungaroring on Sunday.

A chore is always a bore. But this one's not even simple.

The appliance maker seeks to buy Motorola's ailing cell-phone division to complement its telecom business; critics say it's not a good fit

The practicing Jew who discovered Vedic culture in India in the '60s, Cheb's recently released his album Devotion, his seventh album on Six Degrees Records, which was recorded and produced entirely in New Delhi.

The Left Front government in West Bengal will close down two public sector enterprises (PSEs), offload shares in nine PSE to hive them off as joint ventures, retain 13 enterprises and decide on three more using a line of credit from UK's Department for International Development (DFID) worth 23 million pounds.

Struggling US telecom giant Motorola is exploring the possibility of shifting part of the manufacturing facility it is closing in Singapore to India. China and Thailand are also on the radar. Top sources said India is high on the list since Motorola already has a plant in Chennai and a large domestic mobile phone base of over 120 million phones annually.

Lewis Hamilton avoided mayhem around him to open the F1 season with a pole-to-flag victory in a crash-strewn Australian Grand Prix.

BSE data suggest 2 demerger proposals a month in the last 2 years.

Researchers in the United States have carried out a study and found that material in part of the planet's lower mantle has unusual electronic characteristics, which make sound propagate more slowly, suggesting it is softer.

Force India's first day of winter testing was marred by red flags and spins from both drivers raising questions about the car's stability.

Though investment opportunities abound all the time and in almost all situations, they may not be very easy to identify. A shrewd and discerning investor will usually find opportunities for making money in places, and in situations, where a less discerning one will not. The best investment opportunities are often found in the most unlikely of places and situations.

Johnny Gaddaar director Sriram Raghavan on the blast he had making the film.

Powering your company's digital backbone isn't cheap. Here are some ways you can save.

The boldness of the nuclear deal could provide a much-needed boost of confidence to a country which, at 60, is only now learning to tightrope across the world stage without the safety net of the United Nations or the Non-Aligned Movement.

The systems are standard on most ordinary road cars to reduce wheelspin and make vehicles easier to handle in the wet.

Crumbling roads, jammed airports, and power blackouts could hobble growth.

Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him.

P M Ajayan, one of the top 50 scientific researchers in the US, holds forth on nanotech and how it can help India in energy and health care sectors.

New Delhi will spend in 2006-07 about the same on foreign arms as on education and health combined.

But yes a correction looks likely, not necessarily as sharp as the one witnessed in May.

Samvat 2062 is set to end with a bang. What can investors expect?

While researchers worldwide are trying to develop newer and better methods for producing CNTs, the age-old practice of making kaajal is the simplest and the cheapest way of making them, the IIT scientists say.

Real time gross settlement has turned out to be a bane for banks as they are losing interest in remittances business and their golden goose -- float money -- is being killed.

Siemens AG said on Tuesday that it will sell its struggling mobile phone unit to Taiwan's BenQ, capping months of talks about the unit.