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  • Matiz wins two more awards

    Daewoo Motors India much-acclaimed Matiz has bagged two more international awards, having been adjudged the "absolute winner" in the city cars segment and the world's third best small car. In April,

  • IRS-P4 launch to boost Indian Ocean studies

    Indian Remote Sensing Satellite(IRS-P4) scheduled to be launched today, will give a boost to scientific studies of Indian Ocean and development of methodologies for oceanographic parameters, Indian

  • IRS-P4 dedicated to ocean studies

    The Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P4), which was launched successfully by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Wednesday, is the eighth in the series and the first one to be dedicated

  • Indian ICBM by mid-2001

    India is developing an international ballistic missile(ICBM) and it will be ready for launch by mid-2001, the US weekly Defence News says in an article" India to develop extensive nuclear missile

  • U.S. stumbles in space

    U.S. rockets have suffered six failures in the last nine months, destroying or rendering useless billions of dollars worth of surveillance, research and communications satellites and raising concern

  • Ice-based air conditioners win fans

    Heat-deposit air-conditioning systems, which use ice produced in tanks installed in underground floors or on rooftops overnight to cool buildings during the day, are finding more users in Japan. In

  • Attack of the Y2K bug

    Is Asia prepared? The short answer is yes and no. While governments and big organizations are starting to take seriously the threat to the region's computers, there is much work to be done before

  • Godrej-GE embarks on Ecofrig second phase

    Godrej-GE Appliances, the joint venture between Godraj & Boyce and the US-based General Electric Company(GE), said it has embarked upon the second phase of the chlorofluro carbon(CFC) free project,

  • Sinar Mas pulp clarifies stand on environmental pollution

    The Rs 750-crore Sinar Mas Pulp and Paper (India) Limited, a 100 per cent subsidiary of the Indonesian giant Sinar Mas group, which has been embroiled in controversy over the pollution issue since

  • Rocket car attempts to break UK speed record

    A rocket car, packed with formula One technology, will try to smash Richard Noble's British land speed record this August with two dashes of 300mph on an airport runway. The challenge faced by the

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