 | Defence scientists at a premier facility here are eagerly awaiting the safe return Monday of a space vehicle that will play a crucial role in the country's first manned moon mission expected eight years hence.
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 | Rajasthan has finally begun relocating villages that fall inside the Sariska reserve, having drawn severe flak for the disappearance of tigers from the sanctuary. This will be followed by a re-entry of the big cats.
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 | Nearly 840,000 birds have been spotted at Asia's largest saltwater lake in Chilika in Orissa, says the bird census for 2007. A majority of these birds are migratory.
"The migratory birds had started arriving since the beginning of winter in... More |
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 | The Hindon in western Uttar Pradesh has become one of India's most polluted rivers due to callous industries as well as indifferent authorities and is causing serious diseases, says a new study.
A once clean river has been reduced to a trunk... More |
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 | The macabre rape and serial killings of children in Nithari village near here have found their echo in the virtual world too, with several blog sites getting flooded with angry reactions from netizens.
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 | Thousands of bees were killed and bee hives removed from the Barabati stadium here where a one-day cricket match between India and the West Indies will be held Jan 24.
Five experts removed the hives and killed the bees using bamboo sticks,... More |
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 | Digital cameras stem from computers as much as they do from the optical heritage of film cameras. It's no wonder then that today's digital camera users are bombarded with a plethora of acronyms, just as computer users have been for years.
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 | The world's largest and most prestigious wildlife and environment film festival, Wildscreen Festival, begins here Jan 19 and then moves on to Kolkata, Chennai and Pune.
Internationally renowned experts like Jane Goodall, primatologist and... More |
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The new Kerala IT policy, which proposes to give trade union rights to employees, has come under attack from the opposition and IT companies.
The state's Left Democratic Front (LDF) government has given a socialist spin to the IT policy draft... More |
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 | Russia Thursday launched an unmanned cargo spacecraft carrying fresh fruit, water, fuel and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), occupied by three astronauts including Indian American Sunita Williams.
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