DRDO gets flak for slow progress
While the talk of India developing a ballistic missile defence system or a ballistic missile shield has been doing the rounds since 1997 or so, it was only recently that the top brass of the Defence R
Former airman scripts highway success story
From being the soldier son of a small-time farmer, to manning toll booths, and now being the chairman and MD of the TBR Group that he founded, T. Bhogeswara Rao has come a very long way. Mr Rao served
Portable telemedicine boon for army
Here is some good news for the defence forces deployed at border outposts in snow clad glaciers, deep forests, deserts etc., as well as those on board naval ships, in far off deep seas. The Defence R
Hotel bills under scanner
The hotel industry and other enterprises involved in hospitality would soon be brought under the scanner for their billing procedures. The Central Board of Excise and Customs, dealing with Service Tax
Food bills: The big fat lie of ‘service charge’
What happened to Ajay Kumar Goud happens to all of us! Just like him, out of sheer ignorance with respect to rules pertaining to levying of Service Tax and due to morphed terms like “service charges”,
DRDO clears air on indigenous tech
Facing a volley of allegations from various fronts regarding the lack of complete indigenisation in defence weapon systems and technologies, huge cost and time overruns, Defence Research and Developme
Run-off due to irregular rainfall worries experts
Changing climate has resulted in a changed distribution of rainfall in various parts of the state. Experts at the groundwater department are concerned about the disparate pattern in rainfall involvin
Army covered up havildar’s death
The Army is no exception when it comes to burying its mistakes. Often, accidents occur due to someone’s negligence but others end up paying for the same with their lives. A retired Army officer and hi
Victims at chem factory unaware of poisoning
Rescue workers, victims and residents of neighbouring villages who inhaled the volatile Organo-Phosphate compounds released due to burning pesticides in the June 30 fire incident in a chemical reactor
Experts: Nagarjuna fire leaked ‘killer’ chemicals
If statistics in the report pertaining to blood samples of victims tested for ascertaining exposure to organo-phosphate pesticide or poisoning during the June 30 fire in the chemical reactor at N