London: More than 2,600 monkeys in Britain have become targets of "horrifying experiments" that included sawing open their skulls while still alive, putting electrodes in them and forcing them to watch TV, a report said. According to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), scientists at a university in Edinburgh last year force-fed pregnant marmosets with toxic chemicals used in plastics to monitor the effect on the sexual...
10:17 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Police chief V Dinesh Reddy on Thursday asserted that anti-Naxal operations in the state would be intensified. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fitted with powerful surveillance cameras would be pressed into service from February to track the movement of Naxals, DGP V Dinesh Reddy said at a press conference in Visakhapatnam. Naxal activities in Andhra Pradesh had been largely brought under control in the past few months,...
02:26 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Shobhit Niranjan had an offer to join Mentor Graphics for seven lakhs per annum. US based Symantec wanted to recruit Mohit Mundra for nine lakhs per year. Raman Puri had a comfortable job at Hero Honda and a seat at IIM Lucknow. But the 26-year-olds decided to grind their lucrative careers to a halt and fly into business. That of manufacturing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Raman Puri, founder, Aurora ...
09:54 AM, May 11, 2011
Porbander: Surveillance along the western coastline has been beefed up with the commissioning of a squadron of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) at the Naval base in Porbander. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, called the Heron, will now keep an eye on intrusions along the western coast, which was used by the 26/11 attackers to enter Mumbai. Its operations will entirely be controlled from a remote location and will send back pictures...
12:26 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Toronto: The drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used by the US to take out militants in Pakistan's tribal regions, are the new face of modern warfare, according to a US drone expert. Lt Col Matt Martin, who as a virtual pilot has logged 1600 hours of flying drones - also called Predators - from his control room outside Las Vegas, says UAVs have turned modern warfare into a high-tech...
01:03 PM, Dec 28, 2010
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Pakistan's $ 2.5 billion arms 'wish list' also includes a request for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ...
07:52 PM, Jun 16, 2010
CNN-IBN on Face The Nation asked: Is the Air Force needed in the fight against Naxals? ...
08:10 AM, Apr 09, 2010
In 2009, it had successfully tested similar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 08, 2010
Defence Secretary Robert Gates is visiting Islamabad for a strategic dialogue. ...
10:19 AM, Jan 22, 2010
Data gathered by UAVs to aid security forces carry out precision strikes. ...
11:38 AM, Nov 15, 2009
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