For the first time a 'sounding' rocket designed by students of the Indian Space Research Organisation-sponsored Indian Institute of Space Technology has been launched successfully in......
'Modiji's programmes are efficient and with foresight, and needed for the country.''I also like his way of functioning. So, in whatever way I can, I would like to contribute.' IMAGE: G Madhavan......
If the American president sneezes, the whole world gets to know," says P S Goel, director, Satellite Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation. "But if India launches a GSLV (geosynchronous......
'We are calling for democratic accountability even as we talk about Digital India.' 'We are not against Digital India and it is important for India, but the government should not see what is......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in France for a dialogue with leaders of the European Union and a summit with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In the first part of the interview with senior......
The Railways have their own training centres for its manpower requirements and now they are planning to come up with a railway university. A research centre on developing bullet train technology......
Former IIT-ian and corporate head honcho Nabankur Gupta feels IIT is the only recognised and sustainable Indian brand. Speaking on the Pan-IIT Global Conference to be held in Mumbai in the third......
Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......
Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......
It is almost six in the evening when I rush in to meet Professor M Kumaravel in his office at IIT Madras. But the senior faculty member brushes all excuses of being held up by his colleagues aside,......