On board a special aircraft, Aug 23: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that India will not accept any "prescriptive conditionalities" to get an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to operationalise the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

Mukherjee said so to reporters while accompanying President Pratibha Patil on her two-day visit to West Bengal on board a special aircraft.

Washington, August 23 : A new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has provided dramatic new evidence that massive stars - through their brute winds and radiation - can trigger the birth of stellar newborns.

The striking infrared picture shows a colorful cosmic cloud, called W5, studded with multiple generations of blazing stars.

London, Aug. 23 : The British firm -- P. A. Consulting -- which lost the secret records on 84,000 prisoners, won 240-million pounds of Government contracts — including Labour’s ID card scheme.

According to The Sun, the firm sparked a furore this week after losing a computer memory stick holding details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales. Confidential records on 43,000 of Britain’s most prolific criminals also vanished.

PA Consulting has also carried out work for the Ministry of Defence, Treasury and Cabinet Office, as well as the Departments for Children, Health and Transport — costing nearly a quarter of a billion pounds.

New Delhi, Aug 23: The Indian Air Force software experts from Bangalore based Software Development Institute (SDI) indigenously developed software patches to make Su30-MKI avionics compatible with NATO operational philosophy.

This wholly indigenous effort has saved valuable foreign. The IAF is participating in the exercise Red Flag, which is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada in USA.

Microsoft seems very much serious on privacy and security issues on the internet world. It has decided to introduce a "privacy mode" for the next release of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.

IE8 web browser will control the amount and data and enable customers to maintain their privacy. The senior vice president of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising platform group, Satya Nadella said that the browser will come with a special private mode. The two most probable trademarks are Cleartracks and Inprivate.