i-LIMB, the world’s first commercial available bionic hand, has bagged the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert award. It is the highest award given for the noticeable achievement in field of technology. Scottish company Touch Bionics has...

More than 1,000 trains were diverted, cancelled or short-terminated and over Rs 40 crore incurred in losses by the Railways during the 17 days of the Gujjar agitation in Rajasthan and neighbouring states. It suffered losses mainly due to passenger...

World oil demand is set to expand at its slowest rate in six years during 2008 as high prices and the dismantling of Asian subsidy regimes start to choke off demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.

Despite fears of an economic slowdown at home and a slump worldwide, the country’s employers are looking for workers actively. India has topped a global employment outlook survey, powered mainly by service industries such as IT, realty and financial...

Outraged by the continuing telecast by some TV channels of the banned Lux-Cozy advertisement, the government on Tuesday prohibited the “transmission or re-transmission” of the “vulgar” advertisement from all broadcasting...

Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users’ Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.

Zimbabwe is now run by a “military junta”, the country’s opposition leader charged, vowing not to accept victory for Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off later this month.

Japan-based electronics giant JVC has come up with a unique dual-codec video camera LSI (Large-Scale Integration) chip. Known as world’s first dual codec camcorder LSI, the HD Gigabrid chip enables recording of HD videos both in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC...

Finance and Planning Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam today announced the national budget of Tk 99,962 crore for 2008-09 fiscal year, aiming to shield the poor from soaring prices of food and commodities.

Iran says Iran’s Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation with his Iraqi counterpart, Abdul Qader Jassim. The agency says mine clearance and the search for soldiers missing in action are...