Friday, May 27, 2016 The Indian Government announced on Wednesday they will issue a notification to ensure all buses are fitted with panic buttons to prevent sex-related violence occurring on buses in India. The motion was introduced by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari. Installation of the buttons is set to become mandatory on June 2. Tests are under way on 20 buses running...

Monday, February 26, 2007 Canadian Astral Media Inc. will buy out Standard Radio Inc., which runs many radio stations in Canada. Standard Radio Inc. is the largest privately owned multimedia company in Canada. Montreal based Astral Media Inc. will buy all of the assets from Standard Radio Inc. for about CAN$1.2-billion. Standard Radio Inc.'s 52 radio stations, and Astral's 29, will be brought...

Monday, August 26, 2013 German non-profit organization Definetz announced on Friday the development of the 'Defikopter': a medical drone, launched by smartphone app, designed to be able to fly defibrillators to heart attack victims in remote areas quicker than an ambulance. The Defikopter is to be launched by an app that sends out the GPS coordinates of the victim. With the ability to fly at...

Saturday, February 12, 2005 Sutter, CA –An elementary school in northern California has been testing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag-based identification program on its 7th and 8th grade students since January 18th, 2005. According to the ACLU, this is the first time that public school students in the United States have been required to wear devices that enable automatic...

Thursday, October 8, 2015 Yesterday, Göran K. Hansson, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to three scientists for their work on DNA repair. Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar showed how damaged DNA is repaired and genetic information is safeguarded by the cells at the molecular level. Swedish scientist...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Many media outlets traditionally deliberately spread hoaxes on April Fools' Day, including notable quality sources such as National Geographic and Science. The popular British tabloid The Sun wrote that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to undergo stretch surgery to make him taller than his wife, Italian artist and model Carla Bruni. The report claimed the 5 foot 5 inch...

This is the category for Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. Formerly called Madras. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 20 December 2015: Chennaiyin FC score late goal, beat Goa 3-2 to win Indian Super League 2015 11 April 2012: Massive earthquake hits Indonesia, no tsunami risk 26 December 2009: Terror alert in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai 1 May 2009: Runaway EMU train...