Baikonur: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says she is ready for her second expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Williams, who has been assigned as the next commander of the ISS, says she is impatient to meet members from Expedition-32, who have been on board ISS since mid-May. Daughter of an Indian American father from Gujarat and a Slovenian mother, Sunita is currently making final preparations for the Sunday launch...
08:57 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Mini's coupe version of the Countryman, the Paceman will officially be launched next year after its debut at the Paris Auto Show this September. The Paceman concept with a John Cooper Works decked livery was showcased at last years Detroit Show. It is expected to carry the same engine options as the Countryman though details at this time are sketchy. Watch this space for more information. ...
01:49 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Australia’s fast bowler Brett Lee paid rich tribute to the great Dennis Lillee, stating that he was a "role model". ...
06:20 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Australian great Dennis Lillee is bidding adieu to the MRF Pace Foundation after 25 years of service. ...
10:02 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New York: E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing whether their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center published a survey Friday that reports around 12 percent of e-book users 16 years and older downloaded a text from the library over the past year. Earlier in 2012, Pew...
09:12 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Washington: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams is all set to return to to the International Space Station, where she spent a record six months in 2006. Daughter of an Indian American father from Gujarat and a Slovenian mother, Sunita is currently making final preparations for a July 14 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to a NASA announcement. She will be a flight engineer on the station's Expedition 32...
12:17 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Bangalore: India's top space scientists praised China's maiden mission of manned docking of its space lab even as New Delhi's own human space flight programme seems to have lost momentum. "It's a wonderful thing that has happened," ex-Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, UR Rao said. "Essentially, they are making sure that they are going ahead systematically with manned mission programme". China on Saturday launched its longest and heaviest rocket...
03:20 AM, Jun 17, 2012
Jiuquan,(China): China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week. The Shenzhou 9 capsule lifted off as scheduled at 6:37 pm (1237 GMT) evening from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert. All systems functioned normally and,...
05:20 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Sreesanth landed in a controversy when a co-passenger in a Bangalore-Delhi flight alleged him of "boorish behaviour." ...
09:09 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender Director: Ridley Scott With 'Prometheus', director Ridley Scott returns to his sci-fi roots after 30 long years, delivering what is clearly an ambitious, epic-sized prequel to Alien, but one thats sadly missing the very clarity and urgency of that film. In 2093, after discovering an ancient cave painting that confirms the existence of an extra-terrestrial race, committed archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway...
12:26 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Los Angeles: Since hatching 'Alien' 33 years ago, Ridley Scott has hoped no other filmmaker would try to answer this question: Where did the space eggs containing those terrifying beasts come from? Scott has hints of an answer himself with 'Prometheus,' a cousin to 'Alien' that opens on June 8 and marks the filmmaker's return to science fiction. His origin story raises as many questions as it answers about the...
02:21 PM, Jun 07, 2012
London: NASA's road map for reaching Mars may be in flux, but a private Dutch space firm has announced it wants to colonize Mars and plans to send four astronauts to the Red Planet to start operations by 2022. MarsOne, founded by a Dutch energy entrepreneur, claimed that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will...
11:11 AM, Jun 05, 2012
San Francisco: Engineers at Intel Corp are applying lessons from aircraft design to create sturdier laptops in a bid to reduce the prices of the new ultra-thin computers the top chipmaker is promoting heavily. Intel is counting on the super-thin laptops, a category it has dubbed ultrabooks, to add some pizzazz to a PC market languishing due to the growing popularity of Apple Inc's iPad. Models expected later this year...
10:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012
The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, declared the ISAT results 2012 on Wednesday at 2pm. Candidates who appeared for the test to be eligible for the B.Tech programme at the institute may view the results at http://www.iist.ac.in/isat2012/ online.htm. The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technologys IIST Admission Test-ISAT 2012 was conducted on April 21, 2012 in 22 cities across the country. However, when IBNLive tried...
02:33 PM, May 23, 2012
Gurgaon: A 25-year-old man was shot and wounded by two youths on Monday after a heated argument over parking space for their cars in sector 55 in Gurgaon, police said. According to police, some people, who were in a Tata Safari car, shot at Sachin twice when he objected to their parking of the car at his place. The victim runs a cab service in the area and hails from...
09:22 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani military planes have violated Indian air space 23 times in the past three years including twice in last four months, Defence Minister AK Antony said on Monday. He also noted that all such violations are "taken up" with the country concerned. "During the last three years - 2009-2011 - and current year, 23 incidents of air violation by planes of Pakistan defence forces were reported," Antony said...
06:50 PM, May 21, 2012
Moscow: The crew members at the International Space Station (ISS) will make a photo report about life onboard the orbital complex, with a 3D camera sent by Russian news agency RIA Novosti. "Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin who on Tuesday left for the ISS onboard Soyuz TMA-04M space shuttle, took a special stereo camera to make a 3D report about their life and work on the orbital complex,"...
10:43 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General report on the controversial Antrix-Devas deal tabled in Parliament has called it "a classic case of public investment for private profit". The report comes down heavily on the Department of Space saying that in its eagerness, it concealed facts from the Cabinet and violated several rules. The report also has harsh words for retired ISRO employees MG Chandrasekhar and D Venugopal. The report...
02:21 PM, May 15, 2012
Hyderabad: "Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?" This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad. In this booming metropolis, where thousands struggle for a place to live in, even death offers no solution. Rapid urbanisation, burgeoning population, escalating land prices and shrinking graveyards due to encroachments have...
12:58 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: After MiD DAY reported how over a 100 vehicles jostle for one parking spot in Mumbai, it emerges that the citys fleet of 42,000 cabs might widen the ratio even more, competing as they are with private vehicles for parking space at select locations in the city and the suburbs. The system of operating prepaid taxi stands outside various railway stations, and of share-a-taxi stands on several arterial roads...
12:50 PM, May 14, 2012
