RK Pachauri, Former TERI Chief Dies at 79
NEW DELHI : Environmentalist RK Pachauri, a former TERI chief under whose chairmanship the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, died on Thursday after a prolonged cardiac ailment. He was 79. Pachauri had been admitted to the Escorts Heart Institute in the national capital on Tuesday. In a More...
Parliament panel for apps to prevent sexual abuse on children’s access to pornography
NEW DELHI : The Ad Hoc Committee of the Rajya instituted by Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu has made several far reaching recommendations to prevent sexual abuse of children and to contain access to and transmission More...
India’s first manned mission to space finished, 4 IAF pilots selected for training
NEW DELHI : The year 2020 is going to be a very crucial period for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for two of its most important missions–Gaganyaan, the Indian human spaceflight programme and More...
Medanta: Reigning as Mother of all Super Speciality centres
GYAN BHADRA NEW DELHI : Almost three decades ago at the International cardiology conference held in San Diego city, world renowned cardiac surgeon and CMD at Gurugram-based medanta-medicity More...
Technology has opened up myriad job opportunities
NEW DELHI : The advent of technology and the world wide web in the new millennia has opened up myriad job opportunities. New skills have been added to job descriptions. Today, technology and social media are playing More...
ISRO to attempt second soft landing soon, says Sivan
NEW DELHI : The Indian Space Research Organisation will put in all efforts to demonstrate soft landing in space in the near future and Chandrayaan 2 is not the end of story, ISRO Chief K Sivan said today. He said More...
Chandrayaan 2 mission will make India 4th country after the US, Russia and China
SRIHARIKOTA (Andhra Pradesh): The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched a billion dreams into space on Monday with the lift-off of the Chandrayaan 2 lunar probe. The mission, launched onboard the More...
Ravi Venkatesan quits Infosys board
NEW DELHI : Ravi Venkatesan, the former co-chairman of Infosys Ltd, resigned from the post of independent director at India’s second-largest IT outsourcing company, a move many observers said was part of co-founder More...
NASA launches InSight spacecraft toward Mars
VANDENBERG: InSight aims to be the first NASA spacecraft to land on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012. “There is nothing routine about going to Mars, especially landing on Mars,” said Stu Spath, InSight More...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says His Own Data Was Shared by Cambridge Analytica
WASHINGTON /SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told lawmakers that his own personal data was included in that of 87 million or so Facebook users that was improperly shared with political More...