youngsters are now dying globally

In a complete reversal of a 50-year trend, more youngsters are now dying globally than toddlers. In a first-of-its-kind study — published...

Ashok Leyland in joint venture with Nissan

  Hinduja group flagship Ashok Leyland in joint venture with Nissan rolled out its first light commercial vehicle (LCV) – Dost – at half...

Koenigsegg will be in India soon

Swedish supercar maker, Koenigsegg will be in India soon. The company that came into being in the 1990s and managed to survive despite the ...

Apple's worker suicides

Citing worker suicides and injuries at Apple's supplier plants over the last two years, a Canadian-led international study has urged co...

amul to expand milk territory

In a strategic move aimed at grabbing a larger share of the growing demand for milk in the country, Amul's parent Gujarat Cooperative M...

EBay the online auction site / ebay buying

EBay has agreed to pay $2.4 billion for GSI Commerce, an online retail and marketing company, in a move that could help the online auction s...

Goa does not have its own forensic laboratory

On an average, one foreign tourist died per week over the last three years in Goa. Of the 161 deaths, the cause of death in 53 cases is not...

an artificial leaf own power station.

Scientists claim to have found the 'Holy Grail' of science in an artificial leaf that could turn ever British home into its own pow...

Smart Bird soar higher

One of mankind's oldest and most elusive dreams has been to recreate the effortless, swooping flight of a large bird. Now scientists ...

Infosys in Africa

Infosys Technologies is planting the seeds for a long-term IT services play in the African continent. The company's CFO V Balakrishna...

green cities India and japan

The Japanese government announced yesterday that it would sign a free trade agreement with India that would eliminate 94 percent of trade t...

sex as one of the grounds for seeking divorce

A husband, who cited denial of sex as one of the grounds for seeking divorce, has been granted separation by the Delh...

Baidu mobile os

As part of its quest to become Google of China, Baidu has already launched a Twitter-like service and announced plans to integrate apps and...

medically induced coma

Only ten days after giving birth, Stevie Caffrey collapsed. With her heart and kidneys failing, doctors put her into a medically induced com...

Indian military terrorism: Hot peppers

The Indian military is turning to no-tech resources to create new high tech weapons against terrorism: Hot peppers. But not just any hot pe...

organic farming in Himachal Pradesh

Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar advocated the use of organic farming in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, where, he said, farm pract...

accidentally found currency for staff

It could be a scene straight out of an old Bollywood thriller. A cupboard in a hospital, supposedly empty and not opened for almost a decad...

allow trees to grow /tree catalogs

Tree islands are patches of relatively high and dry ground that dot the marshes of the Everglades. Typically a meter (3.3 feet) or so high,...

India and New Zealand economy

India and New Zealand have seen a steady growth in bilateral trade, mostly in the tourism and education sectors, with business between the...

indian economy growth / size of indian economy

Rapidly growing Indian economy and the strides taken by Indian firms to go global have thrown up the need for "globalisation of Indian...

The Nokia E-Cu concept

The Nokia E-Cu concept phone doesn't need to plug in, it charges from any heat source. Just lay it on top of a radiator and it starts s...

FOG-to-Fuels

Blackgold Biofuels is operating FOG-to-Fuels, a pilot program to turn FOG into biodiesel at San Francisco's Wastewater Treatment Facili...

The victim, Shahrukh, arrived at Mother's International School

A few days after nine boys stabbed a teenager to death in Sriniwaspuri, a 15-year-old student who had come to Mother's International Sc...