 | Scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have been asked to help explore ruins in and around the ancient Nalanda University in Bihar.
P.K. Mishra, the superintending archaeologist of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),... More |
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 | It is good news for bird lovers. The endangered Garuda bird of the stork family has been sighted in a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, where the birds have also started nesting.
"The endangered Garuda birds have taken shelter on a silk... More |
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 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) has invented a revolutionary computer chip that uses nanotechnology to achieve a significant performance boost.
Researchers at the world's largest computer maker Tuesday said the new approach can allow an eightfold increase... More |
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 | Virus programmers seem to know no limits when it comes to creative ways of making the Internet unsafe. Rootkits, originally programmes designed to help computer administrators, are the current bugbear for security firms trying to prevent them from... More |
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 | West Bengal's Cooch Behar district Tuesday faced a strike -- for the sake of an endangered specimen of turtles.
A wildlife group called the protest action for 12 hours. The number of turtles in a water body near a temple in the area has been... More |
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 | The Patna High Court Tuesday ordered a ban on the manufacture and use of polythene bags of less than 20 microns and recycled polythene bags in Bihar.
Taking a serious note of the rampant use of non-permissible polythene bags by shopkeepers here,... More |
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 | With plans underway to control carbon dioxide emissions in all EU airports by 2012, IBS Software Services has begun working on a new IT tool to help airlines control their pollution levels.
The tool, which would help in finding exactly how much... More |
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 | Taiwan revealed plans Monday to issue biometric passports to counter passport forgery, but some lawmakers expressed fears that the new document could leak personal data.
Deputy Foreign Minister Yang Tzu-pao said issuing bio passport is to follow... More |
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 | The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to set up a space training centre or a university in Kerala to meet the shortage of space scientists.
Speaking to reporters here Monday, ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair said the... More |
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 | India needs to focus research on solar energy and cheaper photovoltaic cells that hold the key to Earth's future, according to a Russian researcher.
Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Zhores I. Alferov told a science meet here that solar... More |
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