Cape Canaveral: Space enthusiast and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has found the rocket motors used to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon and plans to mount a recovery expedition soon, the Amazon.com CEO and founder reported on a blog post. The five F-1 engines were fired up on July 16, 1969, sending the massive Saturn 5 rocket on its way to the moon. The motors burned out a few...
09:50 AM, Mar 30, 2012
CHENNAI: Apollo Transplant Institutes have become the busiest solid organ transplant programmes in the world, having conducted 929 liver, kidney and heart transplants during 2011. Addressing the media on this occasion, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, Our aim at the Apollo Transplant Institutes is to be the best centre for transplantation in the world. Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group and Senior Consultant,...
07:45 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Miami: NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth. The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than USD 388,000, some 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the...
08:51 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Apollo Hospitals, India's biggest corporate hospital chain, Saturday launched "stroke Robot" which enables real-time quality care to stroke patients in areas far away from major cities. The RP-7 remote presence Robot is a mobile robotic platform that enables the physician to remotely monitor and guide the treatment of stroke. Apollo Group of Hospitals chairman Prathap C. Reddy told reporters that it is the first and only US Food and...
08:20 AM, Oct 30, 2011
![Azhar bids tearful farewell to Ayazuddin]( "Azhar bids tearful farewell to Ayazuddin")
Hyderabad: "Ayaz is no more," was the brief SMS a shattered Mohammad Azharuddin sent to his close friends on Friday immediately after the Apollo Hospital declared that his younger son Mohammad Ayazuddin (19) passed away at 11:51 am due to hypoxic encephalopathy, six days after his sports bike skidded on the outer ring road. Among those who rushed to the hospital were Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, coach John...
10:31 AM, Sep 17, 2011
Hyderabad: Ayazuddin, son of former cricketer and Moradabad MP Mohammad Azharuddin, succumbed to his injuries suffered in a road mishap on Friday. Ayazuddin was being treated at the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad. Ayazuddin (19) had sustained critical injuries after a sports bike, which he and his cousin Ajmal-ur-Rahman (16) were riding, skidded off the road at Puppalguda on the Outer Ring Road in Hyderabad on September 11 morning. "Ayaz was...
12:26 PM, Sep 16, 2011
Washington: To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago. But with a price tag that some estimate at $ 35 billion, it may not fly with Congress. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and several members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled the...
08:52 AM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: NASA has made available a picture that provide the sharpest images yet of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 moon landing sites. The high definition photo even shows the boot tracks left behind in 1972 by the last US astronaut to walk on the Moon. This August 2011 image made available by NASA shows paths left by walking astronauts, single lines, and lunar buggy tracks, parallel lines, from...
06:20 PM, Sep 07, 2011
Sydney: Astronaut Neil Armstrong has urged a return to the Moon to train for missions to Mars as the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era. The first man to walk on the Moon is due to address the US Congress on new directions for NASA in coming weeks. He has previously criticised US President Barack Obama for being "poorly advised"...
01:10 PM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: Till now its been Swan Telecom and Reliance, Unitech wireless and Kalaingar TV that have felt the 2G spectrum scam heat. Now as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enters its next level of investigations, with deals that took place between 2001 to 2007, it is looking at the other big player - Aircel and its chairperson, Suneetha Reddy, who is the joint MD of Apollo Hospitals Group....
08:05 PM, Jun 13, 2011
New Delhi: Till now its been Swan Telecom and Reliance, Unitech wireless and Kalaingar TV that have felt the 2G spectrum scam heat. Now as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enters its next level of investigations, with deals that took place between 2001 to 2007, it is looking at the other big player - Aircel and its chairperson, Suneetha Reddy, who is the joint MD of Apollo Hospitals Group....
08:05 PM, Jun 13, 2011
A day after the fatal air crash reported, fear still lingers on in the tiny bylanes of Faridabad. ...
08:57 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: The preliminary report on the plane crash in Faridabad in which 10 people - seven on board the ill-fated aircraft and three on ground - were killed says that the engine of the P-12 turboprop aircraft was fine and it was the turbulent weather that led to the tragedy. The investigation into the crash is being carried out independently and not by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation...
05:54 PM, May 26, 2011
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