Slowly but surely pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of the conspiracy behind Mumbai terror attacks are falling into place.
Bhuvan, India's response to Google Earth, will be launched in March 2009 and will provide high resolution imagery data of the order of five metres which would be of great help for real-time exercises, including disaster management and military operations.
China is worried over the images of its key defence and nuclear sites on Google Earth, fearing that terrorists might use them. The communist nation sought United States' help in getting the image resolution reduced, according to a diplomatic cable.
Here's good news for Internet enthusiasts. Ethnic sounds - right from the Brazilian rain forest to Arctic ice sheets - will now accompany the location-sighting venture on Google Earth.
The availability of three dimension images of sensitive installations on 'Google Earth', has raised concerns among global space policy makers about the security aspect, a space policy analyst said in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The sources said the Centre had decided in 2007 to frame a policy on this issue and Wednesday's meeting was the first move in this connection.
Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos plans to launch a prototype AI data centre in orbit by the end of this year, aiming for commercial viability by 2027, according to co-founder Srinath Ravichandran.
We cannot simply have a 60-65 per cent import dependency in LPG, the bulk of which comes from just one volatile region -- West Asia, points out R Jagannathan.
Nair has said that India needs to have a dialogue with Google.
The government's Budget announcements providing tax holiday for data centres, setting up of city economic regions (CERs) and funding to improve infrastructure in Tier-II and -III cities may give an indirect boost to India's realty sector, said industry executives.
Budget 2026 sticks to fiscal discipline, shuns populist measures despite five key state elections coming up, but ends up rattling stock markets with a higher transaction tax on derivatives trading.
'The real story of 2025 is that India officially stopped being a 'market of the future' and started acting as the world's primary economic engine.'
Officials have in the recent past expressed concern over Google Earth's display of pictures of key Indian installations.
Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface.
Google Earth's display of pictures of key Indian installations including military bases, offices of the prime minister and the President, as well as nuclear facilities, had raised concerns from various quarters in the recent past.
Google is in talks with the Indian government on masking maps and images of sensitive installations in the country.
Shailesh Rao has also served as a director for Google based at the company's headquarters in California and was instrumental in the launch of Google Maps and Google Earth globally.
"We are proud of what is happening in India and share Prime Minister's vision of digital India," Pichai said.
Google officials said sensitive locations as identified by the government could be blurred or camouflaged or distorted using some methods, including lowering of resolution.
Taj Mahal is popular among virtual travellers.
Updates on the NHAI activities will be available on Facebook, including information on its targets and achievements, among other things.
The internet services giant wanted to cover most of the Indian territory through the Google Street View.
The search engine giant celebrates Earth Day 2013 with a doodle.
'Images of defence installations on web portal not a threat'
'To access our satellite, you don't need any IQ test, you don't need to write an examination.' 'You can be a Class 1 student, an engineering student, a 60-year-old person, anybody can access our satellite.'
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The Mumbai attack perpetrated by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba was an example of how terror outfits use latest available IT tools for their decisive motives, a top US commander has said, highlighting the role of cyber space in such events.
With phones jammed and fragments of news, citizens displayed a variety of web tools.
A United States university students' project has stumbled upon figures that China's could have 3,000 nuclear warheads, many times larger than the well established estimates of arms-control experts, sounding alarm bells in Pentagon.
oaring crime gave Venezuela the horrific title of being one of the most violent countries on earth. Inflation ran into tens of thousands per cent, impoverishing nearly all of the country's 31 million people.' Yet, says Radha Roy Biswas, she sees hope for the beleaguered nation where she spent her childhood years.
Google uses solar panel and wind to power electronic equipment in the balloon throughout the day.
One wants ban on Google Earth, other for harnessing technology to combat terror.
At a cursory look, the development of a new strategic submarine by China appear to be of marginal impact on India as Sanya base is far away from Indian shores and as such ground-based missiles in China could be deployed in the event of skirmishes between the two rising countries in Asia. Besides, the avowed aim in developing the new Jin SSBN is not to target India but the United States, in the Chinese quest to become a great power in the world.
Nair said: "We are talking to Google Earth to see how this can be tackled and whether sensitive areas can be blacked out."
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