New Delhi, August 20 (IANS) The global positioning system (GPS) technology will be installed on trains in the next two years to avoid accidents, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said Friday.
GPS is a satellite-based navigation system which works in any weather conditions 24 hours a day.
London, Aug 20 (IANS) Men spend nearly 450 km a year lost on the road — a distance equivalent from Delhi to Amritsar.
A survey in Britain found that over a quarter of men will wait at least half an hour before asking for directions.
Washington, Aug 20 (ANI):
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has revealed cliffs in the
lunar crust indicating that the moon shrunk in the geologically recent past and
might still be shrinking today.
New York, Aug 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova was named the world’s highest-paid female athlete by Forbes magazine.
Sharapova pulled in $24.5 million over the past year, including $1 million earned from prize money and the rest derived from endorsements and appearance fees, Forbes said.
Washington, Aug 20 (DPA) The moon is smaller than it used to be and could still be shrinking, NASA scientists said Thursday pointing to new evidence that the moon has contracted relatively recently.
New high-resolution images have turned up geographical features on the moon that indicate it has shrunk within the last 800 million years – or practically yesterday in astronomical terms, said Tom Watters, a scientist at the Centre for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi Thursday said the government had appointed 11 top bureaucrats to oversee the last phase of work for the mega event at the request of the organising committee and there was no “take over” of the Games.
“We are in the final phase for the Commonwealth Games. We requested the prime minister and the cabinet secretary to give us 10 government officers. They have come at our request and they will co-ordinate. They have not come to take over the organising committee as reported in some sections of the media. The media is saying that my wings have been clipped, probably because I was a fighter pilot,” said Kalmadi at a press conference.
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) All states and union territories are expected to achieve 3 percent fiscal deficit latest by 2014-15 as part of fiscal consolidation, the Rajya Sabha was told Thursday.
Minister of State for Planning V. Narayanasamy said in a written statement that the fiscal deficit targets had been recommended by the 13th Finance Commission.
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The government is working on an Integrated Action Plan to address development issues in areas affected by Maoist violence, Minister of State for Planning V. Narayanasamy said Thursday.
“The details of the Integrated Action Plan are in the process of being finalized,” the minister said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
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