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Now Plastic From Milk Protein And Clay

Vamban — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:34:01 +0000

Bangalore, Oct 21 – Scientists have reported development of a new ultra-light bio-degradable foam plastic material made from two unlikely ingredients — the protein in milk and ordinary clay. The American Chemical Society (ACS) said the news comes amid ongoing concern about plastic waste accumulating in municipal landfills causing environmental pollution, and reliance on imported [...]

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Innovation Key to Solving Country’s Critical Problems: PM

Vamban — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:18:01 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 20 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said that innovation in conservation methods is key to solving the critical challenges our nation faces in providing food, water and energy security to the people. ‘In India we have lived with the idea of being a resource-rich land, taking for granted the limitless bounty [...]

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Indian Sukhoi Jets to have Indigenous Flight Display System

Vamban — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:30:16 +0000

Bangalore, Oct 20 – Russian-designed Sukhoi fighters (Su-30MKI) with the Indian Air Force (IAF) will soon have in their cockpit an indigenous multi-functional display system manufactured by Samtel in a joint venture with defence behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), a senior executive said Wednesday. ‘The first home-grown multi-functional display (MFD) system will be fitted in [...]

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Expand Human Resource Pool in Science, Technology: PM

Vamban — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:50:01 +0000

Hyderabad, Oct 19 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday called for expanding the human resource pool in science and technology and creating a stimulating institutional environment. Singh laid the foundation stone for the Hyderabad campus of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at the centrally-run University of Hyderabad. ‘We need to expand human resource [...]

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C.R. Rao Receives India Science Prize

Vamban — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:20:19 +0000

Hyderabad, Oct 19 – World renowned statistician C.R. Rao Tuesday received the India Science Prize in recognition of his outstanding work in statistics from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Singh presented the award to Rao, his friend, at the inaugural ceremony of the 21st general meeting of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, formerly [...]

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Manmohan Singh Pays Tributes to Pakistani Scientist Abdus Salam

Vamban — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:20:09 +0000

Hyderabad, Oct 19 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday paid tributes to Pakistani Nobel laureate Abdus Salam and recalled his association with him at Cambridge during his student days. Inaugurating the 21st general meeting of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, formerly known as Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) here, Manmohan Singh [...]

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Going Nuclear is a 100-year Commitment: IAEA Official

Vamban — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:00:02 +0000

Chennai, Oct 19 – Even as 60 more countries in the world have shown interest to embrace nuclear power to meet their energy needs, only one third of these may generate atomic power, says an official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ‘Nuclear power is not like any other mode of power. Going nuclear [...]

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Kerala, Bavaria to Enhance Ties in IT Sector

Vamban — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:32:47 +0000

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 15 – Kerala and the German state of Bavaria Friday agreed to develop stronger trade ties in the information technology sector. Top officials of the two sides held talks under the aegis of the Group of Technology Companies (GTECH) here. German Deputy Consul General Friedrich Rahn said IT entrepreneurs in Kerala could tap [...]

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Infosys Wants RBI to Halt Huge Inflows to Check Volatility

Vamban — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:32:20 +0000

Bangalore, Oct 15 – With an appreciating rupee impacting its margins, IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Friday sought the intervention of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to regulate speculative inflows to check the high currency volatility. ‘The RBI should intervene right now to halt heavy speculative inflows through the FII (foreign institutional investments) route to [...]

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Reprocessing Nuclear Fuel Necessary for Sustainable Growth: Experts

Vamban — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:36:02 +0000

Mahabalipuram, Oct 14 – Reprocessing spent fuel is vital for the sustainable growth of nuclear power in the wake of the uranium crisis that is expected to hit the sector in the medium term, experts say. While this was the majority conclusion of experts from France, Russia, India, China and Japan at the closing session [...]

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‘Regulating Various Nuclear Reactors in India a Challenge’

Vamban — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:34:16 +0000

Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu), Oct 12 – The expansion of India’s nuclear power sector with the setting up of mega sized reactors of differing technologies – light water, fast breeder and advanced heavy water – poses a challenge to the sector’s regulator, a senior official said Tuesday. ‘We have good experience and well-documented safety measures pertaining [...]

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Nod to New Engineering Technology Institute

Vamban — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:02:20 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 12 – The union cabinet has approved a proposal for takeover of the Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) at Shibpur for converting it to an Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), an official release said Tuesday. ‘BESU will be converted to the IIEST by suitably amending the National Institutes [...]

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Robots to Fabricate Fuel for New Indian Nuclear Reactors

Vamban — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:50:27 +0000

Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu) Oct 12 – With mega sized nuclear reactors set to dot the Indian atomic power landscape, the Hyderabad-based Nuclear Fuel Complex has decided to induct robots in the fuel fabrication process for new reactors – indigenous as well as imported. ‘We are planning to introduce robots in the fuel fabrication activities as [...]

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BlackBerry Given More Time to Solve Deadlock Over Private Data

Vamban — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:40:23 +0000

New Delhi, Oct 12 – The central government Tuesday decided to give more time to BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM), for providing Indian intelligence agencies access to the private data being sent over its handsets. ‘They have been given more time following discussions which are progressing satisfactorily,’ home ministry spokesperson Onkar Kedia told IANS. [...]

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India’s Nuclear Power Generation Exceeds Target

Vamban — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:28:09 +0000

Mumbai, Oct 11 – Electricity generation from India’s nuclear power plants exceeded its target for the first time in nearly half a decade, mainly due to the availability of imported fuel, an official said here Monday. Between April-September 2010,the total power generation from the country’s 19 nuclear reactors in operation was 10,853 million units, against [...]

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India to Build 25 Reactors in Next Five Years

Vamban — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:14:02 +0000

Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu), Oct 10 – India is planning to build 25 reactors in the next five years, a senior official said Sunday. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the inaugural function of Asian Nuclear Prospects 2010, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) chairman and managing director S.K. Jain said: ‘India has 19 [...]

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Asian Nuclear Conference Starts Monday

Vamban — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:40:11 +0000

Chennai, Oct 9 – Senior officials of India’s nuclear energy establishment will discuss all aspects and potential of atomic power with their global counterparts at the three-day International Conference on Asian Nuclear Prospects (ANUP 2010) starting here Oct 11. The conference, to be held in Mahabalipuram, a resort town around 60 km from here, is [...]

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India’s Fast Breeder Test Reactor Going Strong At 25

Vamban — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:28:03 +0000

Chennai, Oct 9 – Even as it celebrates 25 years of operations Sunday, the 13MW fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) in Kalpakkam is still going strong and is expected to serve as the test bed for new technologies developed by Indian scientists for a decade more, an official said. A fast breeder reactor is one [...]

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‘Go Green’ with Male Herbal Contraceptives

Vamban — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:00:02 +0000

Jaipur, Oct 9 – Men could soon be popping contraceptive pills made of plants if the results of experiments carried out at Rajasthan University are anything to go by. The zoology department of the university has been experimenting on rats for the last five years and the results have been encouraging. ‘We want to develop [...]

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Wipro Unveils Platform to Speed Up Drug Development

Vamban — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:32:09 +0000

Bangalore, Oct 5 – India’s IT bellwether Wipro Technologies late Tuesday announced a rapid trials platform to accelerate drug development cycle worldwide in partnership with Oracle Life Sciences. ‘Our rapid trials platform, based on Oracle software, enables business process integration across drug development life cycle,’ Wipro vice-president for manufacturing and life sciences business unit N.S. [...]

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