Martian air consists mostly of carbon dioxide

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 10:37

NASA`s Curiosity rover`s measurement of Martian atmosphere`s composition provides evidence about loss of much of Mars` original atmosphere.

1.4 cr people joined workforce as on Jan 2012

Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 20:43

India added nearly 1.4 crore people to the workforce as on January 2012, up 3 percent from the same month in 2010, official data showed Thursday.

‘Poorest of poor survive on Rs 17 a day in villages’

Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 17:57

Poorest of poor in the country survive on barely Rs 17 per day in villages and Rs 23 a day in cities, as per the latest data released by the National Sample Survey Office Thursday.

India has 50 lakh child labourers

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 00:17

Fifty lakh children eke out a livelihood in the country, of whom 17.5 lakh are in Uttarakhand, according to NSSO.

Curiosity Mars rover confirms first drilled Martian rock sample

Last Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 11:39

NASA`s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images, which confirm that it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.

Curiosity rover collects first Mars rock sample

Last Updated: Sunday, February 10, 2013, 14:46

This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars, the US space agency said.

PDS purchases up sharply between 2004-05 and 2009-10

Last Updated: Monday, January 28, 2013, 22:18

There was sharp rise in purchase of cereals, sugar and kerosene from Public Distribution System (PDS) between 2004-05 and 2009-10, a government survey said.