Even as the institute for gold artisans-a collaborative effort by the World Gold Council (WGC), the Swarna Shilp Bachao Committee (SSBC) and National Institute of Fashion Technology - is set to get

In a series of critical operations carried out from the Insat Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka, deployment of two solar arrays and two antennae on board Insat-3B satellite was

TNPCB notice to US supplier: The TN Pollution Control Board(TNPCB) has sent a notice to a US-based supplier of ethylchloroformate, which created a toxic leak scare in Manali, after geting denatured

According to a writ petition filed by Suresh Kumar and Magandas, neglect by public institutions namely the Pollution Control Board (PCB), Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and others has forced them

Hoping to put an embarrassing recall behind it, General Motors Corp. said that it had developed a fix for the fire hazard that forced it to take all its first-generation electreic vehicles off the

A day-old Insat 3B was put into its first intermediate orbit at 14,214 km on Thursday.This was the first post-launch orbit manoeuvre. Lasting 64 minutes, it went on as

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to provide bank loans to the owners of tannery factories at Hazaribag to set up Chromium recovery and Re-Use Units and a Central

The spectacular demise of the Iridium satellite phone system-barring any last minute rescue-is a cautionary tale that technology by itself does not ensure success.

NASA issues denial: US space agency NASA has "categorically denied" a report alleging it knew in advance of a fatal design flaw in the Mars Polar Lander (MPL) that disappeared in space in December

A leap forward in India'a space programme : India's space programme rocketed into greater heights with the successful launch of the Insat-3B satellite by the high tech Ariane-5 rocket from the