Vikas - Instablogs
Apr 3 2009
Viruses have been used to help build batteries that may one day power cars and all types of electronic devices. The speed and relatively cheap cost of manufacturing virus batteries could prove attractive to industry. Professor Angela Belcher, who led...
Apr 2 2009
Amid chanting of mantras, breaking of coconuts and a tilak ceremony, the desi Air Force One took to the skies on its inaugural VVIP flight on Wednesday, with President Pratibha Patil heading for Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
Apr 2 2009
Australian scientists have come up with an idea to treat high blood pressure and blood sugar by using radio waves to silence or destroy nerves in arteries supplying blood to the kidneys.
Apr 2 2009
Are men the weaker sex? Well, a new study has found scientific evidence that a male baby is born with more associated risks than his female counterparts.
Apr 2 2009
Maruti Suzuki has decided to stop selling its 800 model, that changed the face of the Indian car market, from 11 cities, including the four metros, from 2010 due to tighter emission norms. Maruti chairman RC Bhargava said the company will also stop...
Apr 2 2009
A difficult labour often presages the birth of a boy, which also comes with more risks than the birth of a girl, say experts. In a study of 66,000 births, Marek Glezerman,
Mar 28 2009
MESSING around with ecosystems is an unpredictable business. That proved true again this week when a group of Indian and German researchers gave their first report from the biggest ever experiment in geo-engineering: an expedition to pour iron into the...
Mar 28 2009
The release of 8X10 Tasveer, an Akshay Kumar-starrer supernatural thriller, is in trouble over a financial clash between the movie’s co-producers, Percept Picture Company and T-Series.
Mar 28 2009
India spends 1.2% of its GDP on health, but takes care of foreign patients — the country ranks second in medical tourism. In 2007, Indian hospitals treated 4.5 lakh patients from other countries against topper Thailand’s 12 lakh.
Mar 28 2009
Get ready to pay heavier fines for traffic offences. A new Bill to amend the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 has been given the final touches. If passed as one of the first laws enacted by the new government, as is expected, all traffic violations would invite...