Mumbai: Drugmaker Piramal Healthcare is buying a US-based healthcare data provider for $635 million to boost research and development, in the biggest outbound acquisition by an Indian company in over six months. Mumbai-based Piramal Healthcare, controlled by billionaire Ajay Piramal, has been looking to expand its R&D portfolio after it sold its India formulations business to US-based Abbott Laboratories for $3.7 billion in 2010. Piramal Healthcare aims to close the...
10:27 PM, May 16, 2012
London: British scientists claim to be for the first time growing human body parts at a laboratory at the University College London, which they say could soon make organ donation a thing of the past. A team, led by Prof Alexander Seifalian of the varsity's Department of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, claims it's actually focussing on growing replacement organs and body parts to order, using a patient's own cells. "This...
03:39 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The two accused in the Pune BPO employee rape-cum-murder case were on Saturday pronounced guilty by a Pune court. Twenty two-year-old Jyotikumari Chaudhary was raped and killed in November 2007. Her body was found at Wadgaon, off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, on the outskirts of Pune a day later. The driver of her office cab, Purshottam Borate and a friend of his, Pradip Kokate, were arrested and charged with...
04:28 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: Planetary scientists claim to have for the first time detected presence of oxygen in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Dione. An international team, led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, says it has discovered molecular oxygen ions in the upper-most atmosphere of Dione, one of the 62 known moons orbiting Saturn, thanks to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the 'Geophysical Research Letters' journal reported. Dione - discovered in 1684 by astronomer Giovanni...
01:13 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Albuquerque: Figuring out how to pack a processor and other electronics into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge for engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, so weapons experts say the miniature guidance system the lab has developed is a breakthrough. Three years in the making, the bullet prototype represents another step toward a next-generation battlefield that scientists and experts expect to be saturated with technology and information. "In the...
12:28 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Mumbai: Billions of dollars were spent by countries across the world in stockpiling Tamiflu during the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic. India was one of 80 countries to stockpile the medication - buying 30 million doses. But now, a two year review done by the renowned Cochrane Collaboration has raised serious questions on the efficacy and safety of the drug. A team of international researchers went through more than 16,000 pages...
07:40 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon has won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2011. As the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? Ahmad, a 78-year-old retired civil servant completed his manuscript of interconnected stories set on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran back in 1974. But it...
06:29 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Beijing: China may launch the country's first space laboratory module at the end of this week with hectic last-minute preparations in full swing. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between September 27 and 30. However, the forecasted arrival of a cold air mass at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has pushed the launch back to September 29 or 30, depending on weather...
02:47 PM, Sep 26, 2011
San Francisco: Dolby Laboratories says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker. As a result, Dolby Laboratories Inc. said Monday it has dropped its patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd. In a June 15 lawsuit, Dolby had claimed that RIM's smartphones and Playbook tablet devices use its patented digital audio compression technology without...
01:38 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst all the big ticket literary prizes on the Indian landscape, the one that still has the most hearts racing is the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. After all, as the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? The prize, set up in memory of the talented writer and...
06:40 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: Two Delhi students have made history by discovering a new asteroid as part of a unique astronomy project connected to US space agency NASA. The duo will also get an opportunity to name the asteroid. Vaibhav Sapra and Sharanjeet Singh, Class 12 students of Bal Bharati Public School in Pitampura, discovered a main belt asteroid (2011 QM14) this month as part of the All India Asteroid Search Campaign...
05:28 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: Three blast rocked the city of Mumbai on Wednesday leaving the country in a state of panic. On the investigation front, the Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad and the Mumbai Police have formed teams to investigate the serial blasts. In a late-night high-level meeting of senior police officials, details of the initial examination of the blast sites were discussed. Home Minister P Chidambaram also visited the blast sites and met...
07:20 AM, Jul 14, 2011
Mumbai: The probe into the synchronised blasts which rocked south and central Mumbai on Wednesday may hit a stumbling block as heavy rains lashed the area, triggering fears that crucial evidence may be lost before being collected by the forensic experts. Forensic experts of Maharashtra and from Central Forensic Laboratory Delhi have reached Mumbai and were working to locate the vital clues of these blasts when the downpour started. "It...
09:47 PM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: Lawyer Shanti Bhushan on Sunday asked Home Minister P Chidambaram to make public the report prepared by CFSL, Chandigarh, which reportedly said that a CD having purported conversations between him and leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh were a cut and paste job. In a letter to the Home Minister, Bhushan, who is also the co-chair of the joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill, said the release...
05:32 PM, May 08, 2011
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