Beginning today, ISRO’s Mangalyaan or Mars Orbiter Mission will face “blackout” with snapped up communication from the satellite and NASA’s MAVEN too will face similar situation as the Red Planet will pass behind the Sun in what is called “Solar Conjunction” for 14 days. The solar conjunction, that occures every 26 months, will make NASA’s rovers Curiosity and Opportunity remain incommunicado ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) delayed the Class 10 results 2015 to May 27 owing to some apparent technical glitches, disappointing many students and parents alike. Unconfirmed reports from sources say the results will be published on May 27. Once they are uploaded, students can check their result with their roll number and also download the marks sheet. ...

The Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh (BSEAP) has officially confirmed that the results of the Class 10 exams will be published on its official website on Wednesday, May 20 around 11 am in the morning, if no technical glitches surface at the last minute.   Click here or visit: http://bseap.org/Index.aspx for Class 10 (SSC 2015) results. In addition, some private websites ...

Every year, the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala signals the arrival of monsoon over the Indian subcontinent and represents beginning of rainy season over the region and as per the practice, ESSO-India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been issuing forecasts using an indigenously developed statistical model, using six predictors. The predictors to forecast wouthwest monsoon include: i) Minimum Temperature over ...

Russian scientists have repeatedly maintained that the lost spacecraft Progress M27M will fall to earth tonight (Thursday/Friday, May 7/8, 2015) and the chances are that it may be seen hovering over the US, Colombia, Brazil and Indonesia before burn up itself mostly in the sky. The Russian spacecraft has gone out of control after liftoff on 28 April 2015. Fortunately ...

The Karnataka Common Entrance Test (K-CET) for the session 2015 scheduled to be held on April 29 and 30, 2015 has been postponed to May 12 and 13, said the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA). The nationwide strike by Central trade Unions and KSRTC staff federation on April 30 has led to the imminent postponement. Since the admission test to private ...

Absent for long, Rahul Gandhi, Congress Vice President, will re-appear on national political scene effective from April 15, after going on a 2-month sabbatical with prior permission from his mother. The Congress party said he would be leading a Kisan (farmer) rally against the Land Acquisition Bill on April 16 and perhaps 19 sharing the dais with his mother and ...

The world goes dark with switching off of lights for Earth Hour at 8.30pm (20:30) on the last Saturday of March, this year on March 28, 2015, a city like Delhi will save 250 MW of power, which signifies not merely the need to conserve power but also to save earth from the excesses of global warming. Initiated by the ...

NASA’s spacecraft Dawn is approaching its target Ceres dwarf planet as planned for a historic rendezvous set for Friday, March 6, 2015. As the spacecraft is inching closer to the dwarf planet, it has sent new images captured about the dwarf planet Ceres, making the team on the earth excited and upbeat. “Dawn is about to make history,” said Robert ...

By Siddharth Jha  New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS): Comedy is about telling the truth in a funny way, says world-famous stand-up comedian Russell Peters, ahead of his multi-city tour in India, where a group of humorists are currently facing criticism for showcasing an insult comedy show. Peters, whose Almost Famous World Tour, will be staged in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad ...

Stand up comedian Russell Peters, who will be in India as part of his upcoming Almost Famous world tour, will perform in Bangalore on February 21. Starting Feb 11, Peters will also perform in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai. “After setting attendance records around the world and completing one of the biggest comedy tours ever with his notorious world tour, ...

Raising the curtains for the year 2015’s Indian Premier League (IPL), the BCCI will hold the auction for the eighth series of the mega event at the ITC Gardenia in Bangalore on February 16. The proceedings will begin at 9:30 am on 16 February 2015. The Auction will be conducted by Richard Madley, a professional auctioneer from England, who has ...

As the world remains in sort of shock over the news of sudden Google Glass demise, Google has confirmed it is actually working on an upgraded Google Glass 2 instead, keeping the program live for some more years. While announcing the closure of its Google Glass Explorer programme and taking the original wearable device off sale Monday, the company in ...

NASA has announced the launch of its upcoming Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission on January 29 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to provide accurate, highest-resolution global measurements of soil moisture ever obtained from space. SMAP will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket and maneuver into a 426-mile (685-kilometer) altitude, ...

The ICC World Cup 2015 being held in Australia and New Zealand from February 14 will continue till March 29, 2015 and the defending champions India are on top to wrench every match they are playing. In all, 14 teams are taking part in this tournament and the teams have been divided in two pools — A and B — ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has sent the time table for class 10th Examination, 2015 to all the schools and it can be obtained online HERE. The 10th board exams will begin on March 2 at 10:30 AM for 3 hours and end on March 26 all over the country and the results are expected a month later ...

Nvidia has launched its Tegra X1 powered Drive computers for auto-piloted cars, one computers-Drive PX, for developing auto-pilot capabilities, and another Drive CX, for advanced cockpit systems. Th vision of the future was presented in the first public demo of NVIDIA DRIVE PX by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, kicking off the International Consumer Electronics Show. “When you’re done with dinner, ...

With Miss World 2014 only 3 days away, the organisers have announced the Top 5 for all but the Beauty with a Purpose Award! saying, “The competition was fierce this year, and the high standards meant it was a tough choice for our judges.” For over half a century, the Miss World competition has been going on attracting billions of ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was briefly sliding behind Ferguson protestoers, leaped forward in readers’ poll conducted by the TIME magazine and emerged the winner of the Time’s Person of the Year. However, it is not final as the actual Person of the Year, chosen by the magazine’s editors, will be announced on Wednesday in a TV show. But, ...

On Tuesday, December 2, Xiaomi sold 50,000 units of Redmi Note phablet priced Rs.8,999 in 6 second, creating a first of its kind to kick off its third in series of devices since July this year. The flash sale on Flipkart transferred Rs.4.5 crore in six seconds, which would take weeks for any similar product to sell in the market. ...