IT/Technology
India successfully test-fires Akash missile
India Friday successfully test-fired its Akash medium-range surface-to-air missile from a defence base in Odisha for the second time in two days, an official said. |
India test fires exo-atmospheric missile interceptor
India has successfully test-fired for the first time an exo-atmospheric missile interceptor at a defence base in Odisha. |
Mobile tech promotes literacy in developing countries: Unesco
Mobile technology is facilitating reading and improving literacy in developing countries where illiteracy rates are high and physical text scarce, a Unesco study said. |
Nayi Disha’s 3-D Kaju to come home; plans African forayBy KV KURMANATH/ Business Line
Kaju, the alien character animated by Nayi Disha for primary level students, will soon knock on your doors. Seeing interest from parents, the start-up plans to sell the product directly to homes. |
India wants Internet to become EquinetBy Aparajita Gupta
India favours a multilateral role in net governance and management, a "transformational shift from the Internet of today to the Equinet of tomorrow". |
Waterless urinals, biogas cars on display at IIT-Delhi open houseThe Indian Express
A car that runs on biogas instead of conventional CNG, low cost waterless urinals capable of saving over 100 thousand litres of water per urinal per day, fibre wrapping to protect buildings from earthquakes and solar-powered refrigeration systems - these are some projects that will be showcased at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi on April 19. |
A software application to aid farmersBy SHUBASHREE DESIKAN/ The Hindu
It is easy to think of applications for visually challenged people in the context of "text-to-speech" software (TTS), but now there is an application which uses TTS to help out farmers. The Sandesh Pathak application, developed jointly by C-DAC Mumbai, IIT-Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, and C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram will enable SMS messages to be read out loud, for the benefit of farmers who may have difficulty in reading. |
Walk as you likeBy Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty / The Hindu
Jaipur-based veterinary doctor Tapesh Mathur on the Krishna limb, a prosthetic aid he has designed to help animals with amputated legs walk again
|
Voters flaunt 'inked finger' on social networking sites
Expressing pride and exuberance after casting their ballot, voters - young and not so young - have taken to the social media across India, flaunting their inked finger as proof of exercise of their democratic right and are urging others to vote. |
Indian spacecraft Orbiter halfway to Mars
India's maiden mission to Mars is on course, with its spacecraft Orbiter crossing the halfway mark on its voyage to the red planet, four months after it left Earth Dec 1. |