Buoyed By Agni-III Success, DRDO Seeks To Complete N-Triad By '11 By 2010-2011, India hopes to gatecrash into a very exclusive club of countries, which have both ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles) as well as BMD (ballistic missile defence) capabilities. Only the US and Russia strictly qualify for this club as of now, if all the three capabilities

A day before the review meeting for the under-construction Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, Times City took a drive from Moolchand to Delhi Gate only to find that the part of the corridor which has already been constructed as per the earlier design will have to be razed for trials to begin. After the Moolchand crossing, lane segregation has been completed till CGO complex in accordance with the design of Pilot A.

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Way Paved For Preparing Detailed Project Report On Light Rail Transit System Too TIMES NEWS NETWORK The monorail and light rail transit (LRT) system have moved a step forward. Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS) put forward a techno-economic feasibility study on the projects before Delhi government on Thursday paving the way for beginning a detailed project report (DPR) to assess its execution. The three lines of LRT and three monorail corridors are estimated to cost Rs 5,738 crore and Rs 6,893 crore respectively.

Yangon: The first of the UN's relief planes landed in Myanmar on Thursday as a US diplomat warned that the toll in Cyclone Nargis could be over 100,000, signalling a humanitarian crisis way beyond the military junta's estimates so far. Worldwide condemnation of the junta also grew, for keeping US aid planes at bay, even as thousands of hungry people swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in the swamped Irrawaddy Delta.

After a year of slowdown, April came as a promising month for the Indian automobile industry. All segments

Commodity market regulator Forward Market Commission on Thursday raised doubt over government's decision on Wednesday to ban futures trading in four agricultural commodities to control inflation. Its chairman BC Khatua said it is quite unfortunate that government banned four items despite there is no firm evidence that inflation is linked to futures trading. Khatua, however, assured investors that he would make efforts to bring back all eight banned commodities on the exchange platform.

Huge Numbers Of Aggressive Birds Are Causing Blackouts, Even Attacking Kids Martin Fackler Kagoshima (Japan): Fanning out in small teams, the men in gray jumpsuits scour the streets and rooftops with binoculars, seeking to guard this city from a growing menace. They look for telltale signs: a torn garbage bag, a pile of twigs atop an electric pole or one of the black, winged culprits themselves. "There's one!' a shout goes up. Sure enough, one of their quarry flies brazenly overhead: a crow, giving a loud, taunting caw as it passed.