South Korean steel major Posco will start construction of its 12 million tonne, Rs 51,000-crore mega steel project near Paradip in Orissa on April 1, 2008.
Former champions Martina Hingis and Svetlana Kuznetsova took different paths to the third round of the U.S. Open on Thursday.
Dev Chatterjee & Raghavendra Kamath in Mumbai
Competitive video gaming, dubbed esports, is appearing for the first time at a major multi-sport event.
In a new twist to the BMW hit-and-run case trial, a medical expert on Thursday told a Delhi court that a blood test on prime accused Sanjeev Nanda just after the incident had proved that he was under the influence of liquor. "As per traffic rules, a person is under the influence of liquor if the blood contains 30 mg or above per 100 ml of blood, wherever in the present case, it was much above it. As per my report, it was 115 mg/ml," doctor Madhulika Sharma said.
Indian shuttlers had a mixed day in the opening round of the China Open with Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu easing into Round II, while Kidambi Srikanth and Ajay Jayaram making early exits.
The five-member Committee would meet later in the day to take stock of the situation.
The launch of Ariane-5, which will carry India's indigenously-built 3,025 kg INSAT-4B geostationary satellite and Skynet 5A of EADS Astrium, is set for between 3.55 am and 4.28 am on Sunday.
Pankaj Advani, Alok Kumar and Yasin Merchant scored their third straight victories make it to the knock-out phase in the Asian Snooker Championship.
NIIT is recruiting corporate trainers for its Mumbai offices.
Left arm spinner Ram Kumar grabbed six wickets for 47 runs as Tamil Nadu bundled out Uttar Pradesh for a paltry 136 on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy match.
Prasar Bharti's ambitious project to provide television coverage to remote areas via direct-to-home service is expected to begin only by March next year since the earth stations needed for the purpose would be ready on by that time.
Telecom R&D outsourcing company Sasken Communication Technologies' initial public offer to raise Rs 115-130 crore (Rs 1.15 to 1.3 billion) opens for subscription on Thursday.
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully put India's heavy rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Development 5 (GSLV-D5) into orbit from the spaceport at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh at 4.18 pm on Sunday.
He beat Sargis Sargsian of Armenia 6-4 6-4 in the quarterfinals. Defending champ Guillermo Canas lost to Karol Kucera 6-1 7-5.
The satellite will enable a full range of services to neighbours including the areas of telecommunication, television, direct-to-home, VSATs, tele-education and tele-medicine.
Except Pakistan, seven SAARC countries are a part of the project.
The Mhow-based golfer had a bogey-free round of five under 65 in the penultimate round of the Hyundai Open.\n\n
ISRO Chairman K Sivan said there might by a postponement if the weather was not conducive.
"It's a disgrace that he can do something like this," Trump told reporters at a press conference in the Camp David, a picturesque presidential retreat of Maryland, where he is holding meetings with his Republican leaders in the Congress.
South Korea's Kim Woo-jin made the most of perfect shooting conditions to set a 72-arrow world record in the Olympic archery at the Rio de Janeiro Games on Friday and fire an ominous warning at challengers to his gold medal claims.
After 5 yrs, firm's offer to set up private satellites for digital push has seen some interest from Isro
GSLV Mark-III will be India's most powerful launch vehicle built to lift the heaviest Indian communications satellites to space.
Trump said he strongly condemn neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan members."
For a party that has adopted the successful social re-engineering model from Gujarat, Rajasthan and across the rest of the 'Hindi belt' over the past decades, Tamil Nadu continues to remain a tricky customer, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
India will launch two satellites over the next two years to augment transponder capacity and make contingency arrangements to support services like VSAT, television, strategic and emergency communications.
PSLV C-35, carrying India's SCATSAT-1 meant for ocean and weather studies and seven other satellites including from the United States and Canada, on Monday lifted off from the spaceport in Sriharikota.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump again stirred up controversy after he retweeted words attributed to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and then defended his action saying it was a "very good quote".
Though EPS has sworn peace for now, or so it seems, his camp is said to be considering the possibility of calling an early meeting of the party's general council, to get a mandate in his favour before things went out of control. Ground-level indications are that OPS had lost his limited base, which alone had forced him to patch up with the other, reportedly at the instance of the BJP ally at the Centre, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan described the GSAT-11 as the "richest space asset" for India.
The 3,423 kg GSAT-29 carries Ka and Ku band high throughput transponders intended to meet the communication requirements of users, including in the North East and in Jammu and Kashmir.
The mission life of the 2,250kg GSAT-7A, built by ISRO, is eight years. It will provide communication capability to users in Ku-band over the Indian region.
The 43.43 metre tall rocket lifted off at 5.28 pm from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota
Foreigners wearing mini skirts and entering Jama Masjid prompted Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhaktal and his aides to commit a terror strike at the historic mosque in September 2010, the Delhi police told a court.
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