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New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) On Jan 15, people living in the southern tip of the country at Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu will get to watch the 'Ring of Fire' when the moon will cover the sun's disc during the millennium's longest annular solar eclipse. However, sky gazers in Delhi will also have something to cheer about as they will get to see more than half of the eclipse. Annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the moon's shadow is smaller than that of the visible disc of the sun. The covered sun, therefore, appears as a 'Ring of Fire', with its rays appearing spread out from the outline of the moon. Last time India saw this 'Ring of Fire' was Nov 22, 1965, and it will not be witnessed again before June 21, 2020. The maximum duration of the eclipse would be 11 minutes 08 seconds over the Indian Ocean, thus making it the longest annular eclipse of the millennium. 'People in southern...

New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) India has moved up 35 places to become the 88th best country in the world to live, leaving behind nations like Russia and China, according to a survey. The rise has made India the second best place after Bhutan to live in the sub-continent, according to the 2010 Quality of Life Index, published by travel magazine International Living. Overall, France topped the poll for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Australia, Switzerland, and Germany. The US lost four positions to end at seventh. Sweden has been dubbed as the costliest country in the world to live by the index. In 2009, India was the fourth best country in South Asia after Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. The index, published for the 30th year, ranks 194 nations in nine categories: cost of living, culture and leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk, and climate. India has not only improved its overall position in the tally, but has also gained around 25 po...

New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- As we settle into the new year, here are some simple, sustainable methods that will bring you a year of health and happiness: Other changes * Aim to be positive - by being in the company of cheerful people; by reading books that force us to introspect; by getting away from people, objects or habits that bring you down. * Accept your flaws with grace and stop the blame game. Sometimes only the deepest portion of your subconscious mind is aware of the games you play, but the ego refuses to accept that it may not be healthy for us to indulge in such actions or behaviours * Accept yourself. Being aware about your shortcomings does not give you the right to think negatively about yourself. It is very important to respect yourself and have value for your own self. * Make small healthy changes that are sustainable. We make large promises to ourselves, which even with the best of intentions we cannot logically achieve. The promises we make to ourselves should com...

What a way to begin! The Y2K bug did not eat up computer data after all but the dotcom bubble bursts and the information technology and services industry take the world stage. Then, an Indian company acquires a global player. The closing years were no less dramatic: A truck-maker-turnedcarmaker unveils the world's cheapest car shortly after it acquires a foreign major. The global financial system collapses but India's banking system remains unscathed. As a recession sets in, India's largest social spending scheme, based on a guarantee of work, begins to show that such things work if they are backed by law. BT profiles a handful of leaders and visionaries who defined the decade. Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons Trailblazer He has sprung one surprise after another from mega acquisitions like that of Corus to prestige ones like Jaguar-Land Rover, to engineering dreams like the world's cheapest car. He showed Indian industry that it can buy global companies, manage them ...

Indian defence scientists are readying a weapons system to neutralise enemy satellites operating in low-earth orbit, a top defence scientist said here on Sunday. "India is putting together building blocks of technology that could be used to neutralise enemy satellites," Defence Research and Development Organisation Director General V K Saraswat told reporters on the sidelines of the 97th Indian Science Congress. However, he added that the defence scientists have not planned any tests but have started planning such technology which could be used to leapfrog to build a weapon in case the country needed it. Saraswat, who is also the Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, said the scientists were planning to build the weapon which would have the capacity to hit and destroy satellites in low-earth orbit and polar orbit. Usually, satellites in such orbits are used for network centric warfare and neutralising such spacecraft would deny enemy access to its space assets. ...

New Delhi, Jan 6 (ANI): Tata Motors  may consider launching its ultra-cheap Nano car in the United States in three years, Group chairman Ratan Tata has said, following possible sales in Europe by the end of 2011. "We also recognise there is a market (for the Nano) not only in developing countries, but possibly in the developed countries," Ratan Tata told reporters at the New Delhi auto expo show. "For the United States we need a car which has a larger engine and we need some additional crash test modifications and we are in the process of doing it," he added.he United States is the world's largest auto market, but data this week should show China surpassed it with about 13 million vehicles sold in the Asian economic powerhouse this year. The Nano, whose billing as the world's cheapest car gained it significant attention from across the globe, was showcased by Ratan Tata at the previous edition of the New Delhi autoshow two years ago. Tata has said his co...

Thousands of people craned their necks Monday evening in Dubai to watch fireworks shoot from the sides of the world's tallest building, now called the Burj Khalifa, after United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan . Like so much in Dubai, the tower was designed by a Briton, in this case architect Adrian Smith. And like so much in Dubai, the tower was built by migrant workers, many of them from South Asia. Sheikh Khalifa, the ruler of the neighbouring city-state of Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, stayed close by Sheikh Mohammed's side throughout the ceremony. Seated next to his cousin, Sheikh Mohammed at one point appeared to have a tear in his eye as he watched what should have been an unqualified testament to his city-state's rise as a world financial centre. They toiled 22 million hours over the course of 1,325 days, pouring 330,000 cubic metres of reinforced concrete and fitting 103,000 sq metres of sheet glass nearly a kilometer off ...