The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), celebrating 50 years of its establishment this year, Monday put across the message that its scientists were not immune to market forces and needed better remuneration.

India Wednesday successfully tested its longest-range nuclear capable missile Agni-III, catapulting the country into the select group of nations that have intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM).

 The Kanchi Shankara Math has no official link to the proposed Shankara television channel and the pontiffs would not comment on any debatable issue, sources at the monastery told

 You can now courageously ask a person the age of water after showing him a glass of water.

India Monday significantly boosted its space capabilities with the copybook launch of a Rs.700 million ($17.4 million) rocket that simultaneously placed in orbit 10 satellites - two Indian and eight foreign

 A new technique combining a fast-moving laser beam with a special microscope to look at tissues in different optical planes will enable scientists to get a 3-D view of neurons or nerve cells as they interact,

The number of mobile phone subscribers in China has risen to 574 million by March as more fixed-line users switched to mobile services on lower rates, according to the ministry of industry and information

China launched the country's first data relay satellite Tianlian I Friday night.

Aptech Global Learning Solutions will open its first animation training academy in Brazil in May, a company official said Saturday

The next time you want to send an SMS anywhere in India, you need not use your mobile phone to do so.

Germany is moving ahead with a bill to permit police virus attacks that could remotely extract evidence from a suspect's computer, an interior ministry spokesman said in Berlin Tuesday.

A court in Himachal Pradesh has penalised the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) Rs.50,000 for not providing a working telephone to a subscriber in a villager.

The telecom watchdog Friday asked the government to implement the mobile number portability (MNP) by June 2009 across the country by granting license for this to an operator through a competitive bidding process

Now searching for a hotel accommodation and booking it at the best possible deal is just a click away. With the launch of iXiGO's hotel search, a travel search engine, booking any hotel across the country has become much easier

Hewlett Packard (HP), the world's largest seller of computers, unveiled a mini-laptop Tuesday that sells for $500 and is aimed at the education market

Microsoft Corp is re-evaluating its more than $40-billion bid for Yahoo due to the tough economic climate and the delaying efforts of the Yahoo board, US news wire Marketwatch reported late Friday.

Key officials from US software giant Microsoft and internet company Yahoo failed to reach agreement in talks over a multi-billion takeover bid, the Wall Street Journal newspaper reported Friday.

 Think that cellphone in your pocket is pretty neat? Think again. Spurred by the phenomenal launch of the iPhone, the prospect of a Google phone and open networks, inventors and entrepreneurs around the world are feverishly developing plans to expand what mobile phones can do.

Google has announced its first mass lay-offs with plans to shed some 300 workers in its online advertising unit DoubleClick, which it acquired last month for $2.3 billion.

In a first docking by a European spacecraft in orbit, an expendable "space truck", named the "Jules Verne", nosed up to International Space Station (ISS) Thursday and attached itself automatically.

Yahoo Wednesday unveiled a powerful new version of its OneSearch technology for mobile phones that allows users to initiate searches faster using voice or text

Global chip major Intel Corporation has launched five small processors under Atom trademark for mobile Internet devices and Centrino Atom chip for embedded computing solutions, the company said Wednesday

In future we may never have to wash our shirts, thanks to nanotechnology, and we may have nano-shoes that can absorb the shock of an exploding nuclear device

Gujarat has brought broadband connectivity to all village bodies so that "every household can avail the advantages of information technology

 US space shuttle Endeavour blasted off early Tuesday, carrying major additions to the International Space Station from Japan and Canada