Sep 16 2008
Thirty two-year-old techie Abdus Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer alias Taufiq Bilal, the mastermind behind the Indian Mujahideen (IM) terror module, and the man most wanted after Saturday’s blasts, is still at large despite an alert to nab him. ( Watch...
Sep 13 2008
Google Inc, owner of the most popular web-search engine, may back out of a partnership with rival Yahoo Inc if the US justice department sues to block it, Stifel Nicolaus & Co’s Blair Levin said. A suit would give antitrust officials access...
Sep 13 2008
The black market network supplying Iran, North Korea and Libya with illicit nuclear technology had substantial and sensitive information on how to make atomic arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday. It also reported that Libya was...
Sep 13 2008
Indian Railways are willing to shut down the 200-km railway line passing through Dudhwa National Park, the largest tiger reserve in Uttar Pradesh, where trains have run over at least five tigers in the last eight years. “If the Uttar Pradesh...
Sep 13 2008
GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s head of biotech research is excited about a new generation of “slimline” antibody medicines that may be successors to current blockbusters such as Avastin and Rituxan. That’s no surprise, perhaps, given Ian...
Sep 13 2008
Scientists who tricked monkeys by swapping images of sailboats for teacups have figured out how the brain learns to recognize objects, a finding that could lead to robots that “see”. “One of the central questions of how the brain...
Sep 13 2008
Russia is looking into the possibility of building its own particle collider for research and other projects, a Russian scientist has said. Viktor Matveev said on Thursday that scientists around the world are currently considering a proposal by their...
Sep 13 2008
The Joy of Sex , the iconic 1970s book which became the bedroom (and elsewhere) bible for a generation, has been re-released in an updated version for the noughties. The original book, featuring a bearded man and his partner demonstrating the art of...
Sep 13 2008
The world’s biggest experiment ever to recreate Big Bang, continuing underground along the Swiss-French border, has energised Indian nuclear scientists and engineers to the hilt and for the right reasons. For starters, they put together crucial...
Sep 13 2008
In what would be a further blow for West Bengal’s industrialization plans, India’s fourth-largest software exporter Satyam Computer Services, after dilly-dallying for the last four years, has decided to quit Kolkata.A decision to not go...