Rail Budget: Introduction of vacuum toilets likely

Last Updated: Sunday, February 1, 2015, 09:18

Water conservation initiatives such as introduction of environment-friendly vacuum toilets and changes in the design of existing lavatories in trains are some of the proposals likely to be announced in the forthcoming Rail Budget.

Swarna Shatabdi, Palace on Wheels to soon get vacuum toilets

Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 11:51

Railways is planning to introduce it on the Delhi-Amritsar Swarna Shatabdi and luxury tourist train Palace on Wheels.

Most accurate definition of kilogram on anvil

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 14:17

Researchers have developed a novel system to allow a direct comparison of an object being weighed in a vacuum to one outside a vacuum.

Knighthood healed family wounds, says Ben Kingsley

Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013, 15:06

Ben Kingsley has credited his knighthood with finally filling an emotional `vacuum` left by his cold and distant parents.

A vacuum cleaner that talks as it cleans

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 20:19

A Japanese company has come up with a robot vacuum cleaner that can talk to people as it cleans.

India to build world's largest fridge to house fusion reactor

Last Updated: Sunday, October 9, 2011, 13:12

Indian engineers will fabricate the world's largest high-vacuum cold storage vessel for an ambitious international project to generate energy from a process that powers the sun.

Jehangir Sabavala leaves a vacuum in the art fraternity

Last Updated: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 16:42

Jehangir Sabavala, one of the most talented artists India had ever produced, passed away early Friday morning.

Eureka Forbes eyes 33% revenue from vacuum cleaners by 2014

Last Updated: Monday, August 22, 2011, 17:51

Home appliances maker Eureka Forbes on Monday said it is targeting one-third of its revenues from the vacuum cleaner business by the turn of 2014.

Now, `vacuum cleaner` that sucks up oil slicks

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 21:26

It works just like any other vacuum cleaner, but instead of dust, this device sucks up oil.

Year after YSR, political vacuum continues in AP

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 12:27

It has been a year of unprecedented crises in Andhra Pradesh that remembers one of its tallest leaders YS Rajasekhara Reddy on his first death anniversary September 2.

Scientists vacuum up the data on dust

Last Updated: Monday, February 22, 2010, 10:01

While most people give it the brushoff, a panel of scientists gathered Friday to focus on dust. Dust in the air. Dust in the oceans. Dust in your lungs. Good dust. Bad dust. And not a can of Pledge in sight.