24 Sep :Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, alongside the then atomic energy chief R Chidambaram, Atomic Energy Chairman Anil Kakodkar has said that the controversy over Pokhran-II nuclear tests is un-necessary.
Rubbishing doubts on the efficacy of the hydrogen bomb test in 1998, Kakodkar said scientists have achieved success in building deterrence capability of upto 200 kiltons.
“Once again I would like to re-emphasise that the 1998 nuclear tests were fully successful. We had achieved all the objectives in toto.
“It has given us the capability to build deterrence based on both …

24 Sep : Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a NASA instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I -India’s maiden moon mission, has detected evidence of water across the lunar surface, scientists announced on Thursday.
Describing as “path-breaking” the evidence of water on Moon by India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said no lunar odyssey so far had given a “positive” conclusion.
“There is confirmation of traces of water. It is a path-breaking event as far as Chandrayaan-1 mission is concerned. It is very very significant. So far, no mission has confirmed the presence of water positively,” …

23 Sep : VeriSign, Inc , the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, announced today another record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging, based on the latest quarterly index of statistics compiled by VeriSign’s Messaging and Mobile Media division.
During the second quarter of 2009, VeriSign delivered a total of 94.8 billion A2P/P2P messages across its combined mobile messaging platforms for an overall growth of more than 82 percent from Q2 2008. This corresponds to more than $3.3 billion in revenue enabled for VeriSign’s service provider customers, almost double …

Navneet Singh ,23 Sep : Indian girls finally played a great match to outplay Malaysia 90-74 in a play off on the penultimate day of the 23rd FIBA Asia women championship at Jawarlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Wednesday.
With this win today, India has retained its position in Level I competition for the next edition of the tournament. Earlier, the team had lost all its Level I matches.
In a do or die situation, hosts made a good beginning and never looked behind.
The only time Malaysian girls caught up with the eventual …

By CA Manoj Kohli 23rd Sept.,2009 Due to the fact that most of the establishments are virtually closed on account of festivals of Durga Pooja, Navratra’s and Dussehra, representations were received from members all over the country posing the difficulties faced by them in preparing and filing the return of income by due date. Hence, ICAI has made a representation to the Chairman, CBDT requesting him to extend the due date for filing the return of income u/s 139 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 suitably.
Further, ICAI has also …

23 Sep : The Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) at Tezpur in Assam has established after extensive research that the world’s hottest chilly ‘Bhoot Jolokiya’, also called Naga chilly, can indeed be turned into a grenade without being lethal.
Not only that, the extracts of the chilly, exported to the US where it is a favourite among foodies, can also be used as powder to drive away animals, according to scientists in the Defence Research Laboratory.
DRL scientists are working on making the grenade with the hot properties of Bhoot Jolokiya which can …