Sagar Haritha, an IRS class vessel, designed and developed by the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, is all set to conquer new seas. The Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), the lead partner in developing the fuel-efficient multi-fishing mode vessel, will take her to waters shor

School kids lugging bags heavier than them is a scene most of us wake up to every morning. Imagine a school, where all you need is a tablet that has everything your child needs. In an attempt to make learning more fun and reduce the weight of school bags, venture capitalist Ram Gollamudi and a gr

Xiaomi has launched the Mi 5 flagship smartphone in India, priced at Rs. 24,999. The company has so far only brought a single variant of the smartphone in India, what was unveiled as the 'standard edition' in China, featuring 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage. The smartphone will be availab

Envisaging a technological future where computers can learn human language and have conversations with people, Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella has said companies need to build “respectful” technology which gets the best of humanity and not the worst. “We want to take the power of human l

Whenever I speak at an event about job search, I always recommend creating a list of target companies and then connecting with recruiters directly on LinkedIn. It can be a great way to get noticed and even hear about opportunities before they become advertised. But only if you do it right. Rel

NEW DELHI: You may soon be able to dial landline or mobile phone numbers from popular internet apps such as Skype, WhatsApp or Viber, following clearance for inter-connect agreements between internet service providers and telecom operators by an inter-ministerial panel of the government on Monday.

When was the last time you seriously thought about your password? Or, changed it? You can have all the firewalls and virus scanners you like, but if you haven’t got a strong password, and one that you change regularly, then you’re not safe at all. In the last few months, I’ve been deluged with em

Making a marked departure from the conventional system, a Chennai-based company provides a comprehensive system that ensures that a 2 kW solar panel can power a 1.5 tonne air conditioner, one 300 litre refrigerator, five fans, five LED tube lights (4 feet in length and 16 watts each) and eight LED b

The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana or the Skill India programme will be rolled out in April with an aim to train lakhs of youths across the country to become telecom operators, beauticians and retail sellers among others. "Every parliamentary constituency will have a model skill centre. Hard

Google is previewing the next version of its Android operating system two months ahead of schedule in an effort to get the upgraded software on more mobile devices. The upgraded software, known as “Android N” for now, offers a split-screen feature so users can toggle between apps more easily. And

Two computer science students from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore have bagged jobs with a pay package of around Rs 1 crore a year each, offered by a Singapore-based company. The placement process for the final year students (who will be passing out in 2016) of various departmen

Facebook today said it has paid Rs. 4.84 crore to researchers in India as part of its bug bounty programme, the most paid till date by the world’s largest social networking platform. India, which has over 142 million Facebook users, also holds top rank among 127 countries in terms of researchers

Numerous students who wrote the PU II Mathematics examination on March 14 are pleading for leniency in evaluation. But the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) is not willing to commit before doing a detailed study of what ailed the students. Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE)

BENGALURU: If you have some of the new-age tech skills, not only are you likely to be hired much faster, you could also earn far better salaries. Terms like R, Julia, Hadoop, Scrum Master and DevOps may sound alien to most people, but these are some of the hot skills that companies are looking fo

There may soon be another self-driving vehicle on the road, and it's not a car. A team of engineering students in India have come up with a driverless bicycle. Developed at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the bike, called i-Bike, was designed with disabled riders in mind. But the

Korean electronics giant Samsung on Tuesday said its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones will be up for sale in India later this month, priced at Rs. 48,900 onwards. The launch in India, which comes within two weeks of the global unveiling, will help the company bolster sales to buc

To avoid the confusion that prevailed after erroneous II PU results were published on private web portals last year, the PU department may host the results only on its official website or on other government department websites. Amid confusion over faulty evaluation of II PU answer scripts and wr

Android tips are a little trickier to offer than iPhone tips, for a couple of reasons. For one, it's often up to carriers or manufacturers - rather than consumers - who have control over which version of Android your phone is running. Furthermore, there are so many more kinds of Android phones, whic