Washington, May 15 (ANI): A team of private racketeers from Italy is planning to send robots to the Moon by the year 2012, which would resemble skittering spiders or crabs that could deploy as a swarm of mobile cameras and sensors on both legs and wheels.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Varun Gandhi’s hate speech, BJP’s attack on Manmohan Singh as “a weak prime minister” and the hitback by the Congress, shoe-throwing by a journalist to protest inaction over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. These were some of the enduring images of India’s 15th general elections, in which the chase for allies trumped any serious debate over pressing national and global issues.
London, May 15 (ANI): The United States has in place a detailed emergency plan to secure Pakistan’s mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads, in case the nukes are in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.
Washington, May 14 (DPA) US astronauts Thursday installed a new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope in the first of a series of spacewalks to upgrade the ageing instrument.
In the seven-hour, 20-minute long spacewalk astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel replaced Hubble’s camera with a more advanced model. The Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 will allow astronomers to see deeper into space and to take images in the three
Washington, May 14 (DPA) US astronauts Thursday began the first of five planned spacewalks to upgrade and repair the ageing Hubble space telescope.
In a planned six-and-a-half-hour long spacewalk that began at 12:52 GMT astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel are focussing on replacing Hubble’s camera with a more advanced model. The Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 will allow astronomers to see deeper into space and to take images in the three regions of the light spectrum - ultraviolet, visible and near infrared.
Washington, May 14 (ANI): Rihanna’s representatives have denied reports of her recording a new song, blasting ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, and they insist that the recording, which appears on Kanye West’s blog, is a fake.
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Twenty-year-old Gurpreet Singh, a Delhi student, still can’t get over his NASA experience that won him two awards for designing a vehicle which can run unmanned on the surface of the moon.
Excited about the achievement, Singh Thursday said educational institutes in India need to be better informed of such global events for students of the country to showcase their talent.
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) India’s market regulator is looking at tightening norms for buyback of shares by companies, its top official said here Thursday.
“In the recent past, many companies have announced they would buy back shares and after that did not act accordingly,” said Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman C.B. Bhave here.
New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): A Chinese computer technician involved in the stealing of sexually explicit photos of Canto pop star Edison Chen Koon-hei has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half months in jail.
London, May 14 (ANI): Lovesick Britons looking for low-cost ways to find potential partners have turned to the Internet.