Jet Airways, and its subsidiary JetLite, the leading airlines of the country, have reduced the fuel surcharge by Rs 400 and Rs 300 per ticket, respectively, following a dip in the aviation fuel prices. Jet Airways- JetLite combined, run a fleet of 109 aircrafts.

A stimulus package for the economy, to be announced tomorrow by the government and Reserve Bank, will not be a one-off assistance, but would be the first in a series of measures to help the sectors hit by the global slowdown.

The final report CERN has been issued on the failure of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has further informed that the device cannot be restarted before June 2009.  

It has not been much time since the LHC had commenced operating and a connection between two huge magnets burnt out. Due to this, a ton of liquid helium was released which damaged 53 of the magnets that are required to direct the proton stream around the 27km instrument.

The biomimetics researcher Rhodri Armour at the University of Bath has designed a robot dubbed as the Jollbot that is basically a spherical cage and can roll and jump in any direction.

If in case Jollbot is not able to go around an obstacle, it goes over it. In order to jump over something, the cage compresses and springs open. It is the mechanism inspired by the joints of a grasshopper’s legs.