In today's knowledge-driven global economy, one industry in which India is among global leaders and has a firm footprint is the fast-growing information technology and business process outsourcing industry, which includes software development and back-office operations. This industry has not only emerged among the fastest growing contributors to the country's national income, but also the biggest employment generator.
Some Indian companies in the business like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, Wipro and Hindustan Computers have earned global repute for the quality of service and reach, while several large overseas players like Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, Google, Dell, Intel have set up shop in India, registering phenomenal growth.
Facebook to expand India facility As it crosses 25-million mark in user base and completes one year of its development activity in India, it is time for expansion for Facebook. It is going to increase its office space by five times.
India to get first new generation N-submarine this year India would receive its first new generation Nerpa Akula-II class nuclear attack submarine, which is undergoing sea trials in Russia, by the end of this year, a top Russian official has said.
Indian corporates get ready for piece of the Internet By Thomas K. Thomas With the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opening up domain name registration, as many as 50 Indian companies could be among the first ones to apply for Web sites ending in their own brands names, according to experts.
Indian Space agency prepares first national inventory of wetlands A detailed national inventory of wetlands has been prepared on the basis of satellite imagery by Indian Space Reasearch Organisation (ISRO), highlighting areas of critical ecological significance and those which are facing extreme threat due to developmental activities.
India's solar power capacity to surge By: Manu P Toms If all goes according to plan, India's solar power capacity will grow six-fold to touch 300 MW by the end of this year, even as several enthusiastic states are commissioning solar power plants.
Indian scientists develop technology to manage ballast water By P. Sunderarajan A group of Indian scientists may have found the solution to an issue of global concern: disturbance of eco systems because of the growing maritime traffic across the world.
India develops technology to fight aliens in the sea By Azera Parveen Rahman India has developed an eco-friendly technology to treat sea water brought in by cargo ships into our domain, bringing along with it alien organisms and may be even radioactive elements that harm the marine ecosystem or can have even bigger consequences.
Supercomputing: India plans to invest Rs 5,000 cr India plans to invest Rs 5,000 crore to enhance supercomputing capability, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Ashwani Kumar, said.
Citizens haul up errant cops on Facebook By Alkesh Sharma Police in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh created its Facebook account earlier this week to enhance public participation in maintaining law and order. And its laudable efforts to harness social media is also helping to rein in many an errant cop.
In Africa, hi-tech is taking centre stage By André-Michel Essoungou For 48 long hours, employees of Senegal’s National Telecommunications Company cut telephone and Internet connections to the rest of the world. That bold action, in August 2010, sought to force the government to back down on a plan to grant a US company exclusive rights to manage incoming international phone calls.
Africa's Nepad launches phase two of innovation project The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) has launched the second phase of the Africa Science and Technology and Innovation Indicator (ASTII) and Africa Innovation Outlook projects aimed at building up the continent's capacity to collect and analyze data in order to promote innovation. Through ASTII, Nepad is set to push for the development of science, technology and innovation in the region. Africa in general has experienced declining public expenditure on research and development. Nepad is the Africa Union's science and technology development arm.
To Africa, with love By Sachidananda Murthy A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is the most remembered Indian these days in African hospitals and schools. A brainwave of the President six years ago, while travelling on a Tanzanian military plane from Zanzibar to Tanzania, has now become a reality. At the westernmost tip of Africa stands the symbol of the President’s dream conceived while he was on the eastern coast.
India to launch 12 foreign satellites in next two years India has bagged multi-million dollar contracts to launch 12 foreign satellites in the lower orbit from its spaceport over the next two years, a top space agency official said.
India taps IT power to woo African youth By Manish Chand India is reaching out to African youth by offering to make Tanzania a "communication and IT hub of East Africa" and has unfurled new possibilities of cooperation in key high-tech areas like space cooperation.
Indian mega satellite to boost aviation: AAI By Rohit Vaid India's aviation-based navigation capabilities were boosted with the launch of Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) mega geostationary satellite GSAT-8 from the South American state of French Guiana, said a senior official.
Indian satellite's orbit raised The first critical manoeuvre of raising the position of India's advanced communication satellite GSAT-8 in the geo-synchronous transfer orbit was carried out successfully by the master control facility (MCF) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Indian mega satellite spins in geo transfer orbit India's mega geostationary satellite GSAT-8 was spinning in an elliptical geo-synchronous transfer orbit after an Ariane-V rocket successfully lifted it off the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, said a top official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)."The Rs.260-crore advanced communication satellite was injected into the transfer orbit 31 minutes after a textbook launch at 0208 IST and it started beaming signals to our master control facility (MCF) near Hassan in Karnataka," S. Satish, director of the state-run space agency, told IANS.
India developing interceptor missile with 5,000 km range India has started working on a network of air-defence systems which would be able to shoot down any enemy missile even at a distance of 5,000 kms, before it can enter the Indian air space.
As cyber attacks rise, India sets up central command to fight back Alarmed over rising cyber attacks from “White hats” in Pakistan and the Chinese “Honker Union” on Indian websites and computer networks, the Indian government is in the process of establishing a Cyber Command & Control Authority.
Indian space agency to set up R&D centre, sub-systems integration facility The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to set up an advanced R&D centre in the field of spacecraft technologies in Karnataka, a state in south India, and rocket sub-systems integration facility near the spaceport of Andhra Pradesh, another state in south India.
India's new satellite beams high quality images India's latest advanced remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 has beamed high quality images distinctly showing the northern and western regions of the country, the space agency said.
India eyes $10 billion from biotech sector by 2015 India's sunrise biotechnology sector is set to reach $10-billion revenue by 2015 from $4 billion posted in fiscal 2010-11 through innovative products and services, a top state official said.
ISRO builds India's fastest supercomputer State-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a supercomputer which is fastest in terms of peak performance of 220 teraflops (220 trillion floating point operations per second), the space agency said.
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