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A huge task, says new ISRO chief Dr K Radhakrishnan on Saturday, 31st Oct 2009 took charge as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from Dr G Madhavan Nair. The 60-year-old scientist, who joined the ISRO as an avionics engineer in 1971, was a key person behind the Chandrayan I mission. Before his [...]

U.S. economy recoveringBig spending efforts to stimulate the economy by Barak Obama are working. This week’s positive job and economic growth figures proved that the US economy is on the recovery path. The U.S. unemployment rate remains stubbornly high at 9.8 percent, despite a $787 billion economic stimulus that Obama and his fellow Democrats, who [...]

No bar on Husain coming back to India, says Congress With noted painter M F Husain expressing his desire to return to India, Congress has welcomed it saying there was no bar on the painter coming back to the country. The 94-year-old painter has been living in self imposed exile for several years now after [...]

BSNL to stop pre-paid service in JK Public sector mobile service provider BSNL will stop the pre-paid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir as per the policy of the government of India. However, pre-paid mobile services could be converted to postpaid connections. Two new Customer Service Centre (CSC) will be opened at Kupwara and Dalgate [...]

Rajapaksa worships at Lord Venkateswara shrineSri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala. Rajapaksa, who flew in here by a special Sri Lankan aircraft from Nepal, offered prayers at the temple, accompanied by his wife Shiranthi Rajapaksa and an 80-member entourage. On his arrival at the [...]

China is Misleading World About TibetAccording to exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Chinese leaders are misleading the world about the situation in Tibet. Beijing was fooling the world into thinking the situation between the Tibetan people and the Chinese had improved. Chinese media is leading the propaganda that Tibetan culture had become popular [...]

Intel makes tiny microservers a standard an Francisco: In September 2009, Intel launched its back-to-the-future idea of tiny ‘microservers’. Now, the company plans to make the design into a standard others can use too. “The chipmaker will offer its design specification to the Server System Infrastructure Forum by the end of the year. If the [...]

Towards better US – Cuba relationsPresident Obama’s declaration of a “new beginning” in US-Cuba relations had raised Cuban expectations that this signalled an end to 47 years of economic warfare against their Caribbean island, known as the 1962 US trade embargo. Stringent sanctions that prohibit even the sale of vital medical supplies are still zealously [...]

MHA hits out at loose-cannon social activist The home ministry has criticised civil society activists who were defending Maoists by manufacturing human rights violations against the government. In a statement, the home ministry said it was time that some clear words were uttered against Maoists who indulge in wanton killings and destruction of economic infrastructure. [...]

Dalai Lama India’s guest: PM tells ChinaSingh told reporters at the end of his two-day trip to Thailand that he had “frank and constructive exchange of views” with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao in Hua Hin on Saturday.    Send article as PDF