Science, Environment and Technology

• India needs 100 million broadband connections, says Pitroda
• I see a day when voice calls will be free: Sam Pitroda
• Interceptor missile test in Orissa postponed
• Sky gazers gear up for Messier marathon
• Indian-American professor turns chicken feathers into fuel
• Indian-American professor wins $500,000 US science award
• Lights out! Earth Hour back in Delhi
• Delhi gets India's first remote controlled street lights
• Microsoft India unveils new platform for shared IT services
• 170,000 Olive Ridley turtles lay eggs in Orissa's Gahirmatha
• India aborts test of rocket to launch heavy satellites
• India tests cheaper rocket to reduce launch vehicle cost
• Awards to build up Australia-India science links
• Delhi Metro routes now on Google Maps
• India tests advanced sounding rocket successfully
• Pay traffic fines at kiosk close to you
• Now, top farm research institute backs Bt Brinjal
• Chandrayaan-I finds ice near Moon's north pole
• Budgetary boost to India's manned mission to space
• More funds given for ocean and weather research
• 'India's per capita carbon emissions to rise threefold by 2030'
• Indian American's Bloom Box churns out power from sand
• PM upholds moratorium on Bt Brinjal
• Act now, or you'll have e-waste mountain, UN tells India
• Indian American's Bloom Box promises to light up American homes
• Malicious software can invade smart phones, warns Indian American
• India-China aerial war games in 2012: IAF chief
• Himachal may go Costa Rican way on environment
• 1,000 solar rickshaws to ferry Commonwealth Games athletes
• 'India heading for record wheat production'
• ONGC to set up energy efficient crematoriums
• Punjab to set up two biomass-based power projects
• India to order 29 more combat jets for navy
• PM's council for clear policy on genetically modified crops
• '3 Idiots' UAV attracts eyeballs at DefExpo
• Remove misgivings regarding GM crops, says Pawar
• After juices, DRDO turns to bio-diesel
• Chandigarh to launch project to popularise CFLs
• India drafting new regime to auction hydrocarbon assets: Secretary
• Himachal to set up centre for climate change
• Global meet to discuss digitising libraries
• How do we perceive the human brain?
• Indian data on swine flu shamefully inadequate: Virologist
• India plans to build seed reserves for hard times
• Google, other sites suspended in Iran
• Internet to the rescue of long distance relationships
• Google plans superfast internet
• India has anti-satellite capability: DRDO
• Young Delhi women donating their eggs for quick bucks
• Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with new Buzz
• India to build intelligent satellite for surveillance
• India says 'no' to Bt Brinjal, pending scientific tests
• Rs.55 crore fund set up to help young scientists
• Northeast can become an IT hub, say US returned professionals
• Indo-German Max Planck Centre opens in IIT-Delhi
• PM congratulates Pachauri
• Digital photo searches made simpler
• Joint research to tackle climate change goals
• NRI makes s/w to boost airport security
• CII Prez congratulates Dr. Pachauri led panel
• New biotechnology strategy
• New biotechnology strategy
• President congratulates Dr. Pachauri led panel
• Scientists train Himachal farmers
• Hindi SMS service for advertising
• Solar energy transforming lives in Mizoram
• Sonia lays foundation stone of NIFTEM
• IITian developing system to detect terrorists
• Agni-I missile test fired
• Hegde to be editor-in-chief of new journal
• Earth-like planet likely forming
• Pearls from freshwater leafage and mussels
• Railways should use modern technology: R. Velu
• MS Swaminathan receives Lal Shastri Award
• New s/w converts speech into sign languages
• Sunita Williams arrives in Delhi
• Cockroaches are geniuses in the evening
• New e-vision sys for safer night-time driving
• NRI’s carbon nanotube to repair cracks in aircraft
• ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-I moon mission on April 9, 2008
• New software enables international calls through mobiles using Internet
• Greenpeace protest field trials of genetically modified brinjals
• Indian scientist reveals workings of enzyme system 'Mother Nature's blowtorch'
• NRI scientists’ software predicts political, economic and social group’s behaviours
• Cincom Synchrony signs partnership deal with Callcopy Suite
• Orissa's 'Green Man' effort to galvanise his village from cyclone
• Researchers find evidence of Noah’s Biblical flood
• India ready with missile that could be launched from submarine
• Scientists develop automated WiFi trouble-shooting system
• India's first DNA bank all set to roll new identification system
• India successfully launches GSLV-F04
• NRI scientist maps the Internet
• NRI geologist says India's monsoons more variable than previously thought
• ISRO to launch INSAT-4CR today
• GSLV-F04 to be launched on Sunday from Sriharikota
• Scientists wire seafloor to the Internet
• Improved technology to generate ‘hydrogen on demand’ for tomorrow’s submarines, cars
• Country ready to tackle terror outfits' Nuclear-Biological -Chemical attack
• NRI astronomer observes Einstein’s time-space warp around neutron stars
• Greenpeace demands law to govern e-waste in India
• Mobile telephony modernising Mizoram
• Soon, your body heat could power your cell phone
• Saturn's moon has a warm, shifting interior similar to Earth: Study
• Your finger is now your credit card!
• Rubik's Cube can now be solved in 26 moves, say researchers
• NRI scientist demonstrates new technology to improve computer chip cooling
• NRI scientist’s search engine ranks tables by title, document content and text reference
• Indian origin astronomer spots black hole burping Gamma Ray Burst
• Indian American professor develops technology to prevent Minneapolis type bridge collapses
• India’s first Arctic expedition flagged off
• Liquor used as pesticides in Punjab
• Soon, download songs by singing to PCs
• NRI scientist’s discovery could see pencils powering tomorrow’s computers
• Human activity changing rainfall pattern world over
• Technique to study particles travelling at one third of light’s speed
• Sibal awards IRIS 2006 winners for pioneering innovation
• Gigabit wireless technology could soon make wired comps, DVDs a thing of the past
• Sibal inaugurates ‘Emerging Technologies Gallery’ at National Science Centre
• Young innovators receive India Innovation Pioneers Challenge Awards
• Fourteen Indian entrepreneurs awarded for innovative technologies
• Soon, a nanobattery to power nano devices
• Now, a ‘smart wardrobe' to downloads songs to your ‘electronic shirts’
• Indian origin scientist attempts to build artificial muscles from carbon nanofibres
• Ujjain Ashram adopts eco-friendly burial process
• Now, seven simple hand gestures to switch your TV on
• National Strategy Paper on climate change by November
• IBM unveils fastest supercomputer
• Kalam to launch National e-Courts Project today
• Boffins create ‘intelligent’ search engine
• Work on new generation Indian missiles in progress
• Boom in Internet shopping may be adding to CO2 emissions
• India working on new generation missiles
• Indians survived volcanic super-eruption 74000 years ago
• Chickens also use Earth’s magnetic field to sense direction
• Earth is smaller by some millimetres than previously assumed
• IAF’s world microlight expedition running behind schedule
• Ex IITian’s high density capacitors stores up to 7 times more energy
• Scientists build world’s first heat transistor
• Physicists’ mathematical model explores what happened before Big Bang
• Middle of the Pacific contains clearest ocean waters on Earth
• Indian researcher finds human urine grows better fish food
• West Antarctica involved in Antarctic Ice Sheet growth
• Kalam calls for development of reusable space transportation system
• Now, a technology to enable viewing of 3-D content on PDAs, iPods
• Huge Dust Storm Breaks Out on Mars
• Double supernovae explosions detected in a galaxy within six weeks
• Soon, an aeroplane that changes shape in accordance with flying speed
• Sony’s liquid cellphone that won’t crack up from a crash
• Boffins find way to safely store hydrogen for use in future cars
• First glimpses of a star’s weather
• Now, science and technology to work for the poor
• Rising sea levels could disintegrate Antarctic ice sheet
• Nano-particles may help compress computer memory
• Indian projects win top Ashden Awards
• Being employed on the moon can cause depression
• Mars rover tool ready for testing at Los Alamos lab
• It doesn’t need ‘rocket science’ to knock off satellites in space
• Boffins achieve breakthrough in understanding formation of ice
• Antarctic icebergs serve as ‘hotspots’ for ocean life
• Sunita authors book from Space!
• Web-based software to trace grape exports to EU launched
• Kalam asks BrahMos developers to work on Mark-II version
• Gorillas have perfect table manners
• Scientists identify broad neural response behind speech reception
• Liquid telescope on moon now a step closer to reality
• Researchers find why certain home shapes and roofs hold up best in hurricanes
• Now, FISH on a chip for quicker, cost-effective cancer diagnosis
• Plants on Earth-like exoplanets would most likely be black
• Parents increasingly monitoring what their kids watch
• YouTube set to go global
• Scientists discover how enzymes work
• Indian origin astronomer’s new technique for observing cosmic objects lying close to stars
• IIT Delhi scientist finds climate models consistent with ocean warming observations
• Indian origin scientist questions existence of black holes
• Intel plans to use carbon nanotubes to extend life of its chips
• Researchers prove the mighty Amazon is longer than the Nile
• Researchers find new sub-atomic particle
• Nanak Dev researchers identify 5 new lectins useful for killing cancer cells
• Now, an affordable device to reap dozens of litres of fresh water from the air
• Scientists develop artificial blood vessels for vascular grafts in mice
• Mickey Mouse was a lion in the ‘Iron Age’!
• Rising US trade with India, China can affect global carbon emissions: Study
• Quantum computer gets closer to reality
• Nanoparticles not as effective in protecting frozen cells as CPAs
• Researchers successfully convert plant sugars into building blocks for fuel, plastic
• New mutation linked with muscle weakness identified
• Plasma rocket engine tested for a record time
• ‘Tenth planet’ outweighs Pluto by a hefty 27 percent
• Scientists simulate effects of blowing dust on Mars
• 'Wurst' ensures proper functioning of the respiratory system in fruit fly
• Nanoparticles laden bacteria may make early diagnosis of diseases possible
• Ex-IITian develops model linking human activity to climate change
• All out Indo-Pak nuke war will release 5-mln-tonnes of carbon soot into atmosphere
• Cyborg computer chips now closer to reality
• Kalam calls for development of satellite systems for entire humanity
• India committed for environmentally sustainable development strategies: PM
• Awareness marches, rallies mark World Environment Day
• Cook your chapati and keep it fresh for a year
• Sethusamudram project is based on scientific studies: Sibal
• INSAT- 4CR to be launched in September
• Climate change best assessed from Moon
• Spitzer telescope captures images of 1000 galaxies
• Moscow University honours Brahmos Aerospace CEO
• Mayawati readies to head single-party-govt. in UP after 14 yrs
• India committed to scientific research, technical cooperation in Poles: Pranab
• Government approves launch of Nano Mission
• CII, IISc sign MoU to create an ecosystem of innovation in India
• Budget cuts putting US Earth-observing satellites in jeopardy: AAAS report
• Energy independence is India's top priority, go for thorium, says Kalam
• Indian women would soon land on the Moon: Kalam
• Space has no borders, Kalam tells Strasbourg students
• Virgina scouts for R and D partners in India
• Total lunar eclipse visible in India on March 4
• India for medium unmanned aerial vehicles
• US, Russian military fleet to showcase in Aero India
• Safe return for India's space vehicle
• PSLV-C7 launched successfully
• India set for PSLV-C7 launch
• Indian American on Discovery space mission
• Prithvi missile test fired
• India for manned space mission in 2014
• Solar Fridge for vaccine storage developed
• India conducts cyrogenic rocket test
• India's Chandrayaan-I mission in 2008
• Diabetics controllable wheat crop developed
• India to host first annual Asia biotech meet
• India developes low cost bird flu drug
• ICAR scientists develop bird flu vaccine
• GSLV carrying INSAT 4C launch fails
• DRDO to conduct more test trials of Agni-III
• India's GSLV launch in July likely
• Indian scientists test fires Prithvi missile
• ISRO, NASA sign deal on India's moon mission, Chandrayaan-1
• US Indian in NASA mission to ISS
• Rare view of Uranus for 3 days
• IRS can identify quake vulnerable zones globally
• India adopts biotech crop
• Science Safari in Nat Geo to exhibit Indian science
• Fetal nerve cells cultured for AIDS study
• INSAT 4A successfully launched
• Tsunami Early Warning System by 2007
• ISRO to launch Insat 4-A for DTH services
• India to invest on stem cell research
• First Indian indigenous warship underway
• Kalam asks scientists to forecast quakes
• Scientists warn of more earthquakes
• Indian astronomers discover celestial clock
• India joins EU-led Galileo satellite system
• India and US to sign Science & Tech agreement
• India gearing up for `Chandrayaan'
• NIO files patents for compounds isolated from green mussel
• India eye on intercontinental ballistic missile
• Tsunami and Andaman eruptions
• First batch of human brain stem cells formed
• Genetic decoding of rice completed
• NASA to train Indian astronaut
• Kalam asks scientists to design & develop LCA
• IISc to start research unit on earth sciences
• Indian scientist won World Food Prize
• First Trieste Science Prize to Indian
• Gold ores in India
• India developing Superconducting cyclotron
• IIT Delhi, develops battery-operated electric bus
• 'Vigyan Rail' begins cross-country journey
• IT spending by Indian cos to increase 17 pc in FY 06: IDC
• 'Indian Ocean could see another tsunami'
• India ahead of China in satellite tech
• India to launch two satellites
• ISRO not affected due to fire
• Sharon approves Israel's participation in India's moon mission
• 'Second generation atomic reactors soon'
• India to launch Brazilian satellite
• Trishul test fired in Orissa
• 'Chennai, Mumbai to go under sea by 2020'
• Maruti rolls out new-look Zen
• India's first underwater 'satellite' mission readied
• Write emails in hand in any Indian language
• Delhi wakes up to 'reddish' morning due to short lunar eclipse
• PSLV places Resourcesat-1 in orbit successfully
• INSAT-3E launch a boost to telecom, television services
• Ariane carries INSAT-3E into space
• India invites other space agencies to join moon mission
• India to become 7th country having super conductor cyclotron
• INSAT-3E launch postponed by 3-4 weeks
• 2002 was the second warmest year
• India, US to Sci &Tech agreement
• University hostel hall named after Kalpana Chawla
• Akash test fired
• A complex RIDSAT under construction
• Indian moon mission to get underway soon
• SC orders UP to keep areas adjoining Taj clean and green
• 23 Defence scientists awarded
• First orbit raising operation carried out on GSAT-2
• India Harvests First Biotech Cotton Crop
• Lakshya successfully test-flown
• TCS developing India's first bioinformatics software on Linux
• Canada may participate in Indian moon mission
• Country needs a biotech policy: Kalam
• Indian wins prestigious international award for conservation
• India Test indigenously produced Torpedo -- Detail Story
• Cabinet approves launching of INSAT-4A, 4B
• Second Indian woman chosen for NASA space mission

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