President to visit Bengal from Friday
September 13th, 2012 - 8:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will begin a four-day visit to West Bengal from Friday, said an official statement here.This will be Mukherjee's first visit to ... Read more...
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Maoist strategist held in Bengal (Third Lead)
July 17th, 2012 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) Bikram alias Arnab Dam, a West Bengal state committee member of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and considered the party's top strategist in the ... Read more...
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‘India on par with others in electronic warfare’
May 2nd, 2012 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) India is on par with other countries in electronic warfare, senior scientist Saktipada Dash, who took over as director of a prestigious defence electronics research laboratory, ... Read more...
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Indian innovator harnesses sea waves for power
January 10th, 2012 - 10:36 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) An Indian innovator has come up with a technology that tweaks gravity power to harness sea waves for clean and affordable energy, a source more ... Read more...
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Ajit Singh - a political acrobat (Lead)
December 18th, 2011 - 5:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh is an instinctive deal-maker and can quickly see on which side the grass is greener.This technocrat-turned-politician, son ... Read more...
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Ajit Singh - a political acrobat
December 18th, 2011 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh is an instinctive deal-maker and can quickly see on which side the grass is greener.This farmer-turned former ... Read more...
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IIT-Kharagpur students back Anna at convocation
August 22nd, 2011 - 5:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 22 (IANS) Hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, locals and students Monday staged a protest at the main gate of ... Read more...
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Can’t reveal names in black money cases, court told
April 21st, 2011 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with other countries, it could not disclose the names ... Read more...
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Key faces of Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption crusade
April 9th, 2011 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign, which has captured the imagination of the nation like no other, has some high-profile faces lending it weight and substance. Here ... Read more...
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Black money case: Apex court concerned over threat to professor
April 8th, 2011 - 3:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday took a serious view of the threat to an IIT professor for urging Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure that ... Read more...
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Mukherjee generous to poll-bound Bengal
March 1st, 2011 - 12:55 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) Three days after being showered with goodies by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, poll-bound West Bengal Monday reaped rich dividends from the budget for 2011-12 presented by Finance ... Read more...
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IIT-Kharagpur welcomes budgetary grant
February 28th, 2011 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur Monday welcomed the special budgetary grant of Rs.200 crore ahead of its diamond jubilee, and said the amount will be used for ... Read more...
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IIT students urged to contribute to socio-economic growth
August 28th, 2010 - 5:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) As the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur gets set to celebrate its diamond jubilee next year, its 300-odd alumni have come forward with a call for the young ... Read more...
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Indian students head for Canada to join research internships
July 12th, 2010 - 4:53 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 12 (ANI): Some of the brightest Indian students will be spending this summer in Canada taking part in cutting-edge research internships at Canadian universities.According to a Canadian High Commission ... Read more...
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Railways to set up multi-disciplinary training centres
February 24th, 2010 - 8:25 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb.24 (ANI): Minister for Railways Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said Research, Design and Standards Organisation would be revamped to bring in line with the modern research organizations."The Research, ... Read more...
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Railways to boost research partnership with IITs, DRDO
February 24th, 2010 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The government will set up a Centre for Railway Research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced Wednesday while promising to ... Read more...
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Bangaloreans learn to make art objects from discarded stuff
February 13th, 2010 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Feb 13 (IANS) Bangaloreans Saturday got a lesson in how to turn discarded stuff like CDs, glass, furniture, plastic and paper into art pieces and make the city litter-free.
A group of ... Read more...
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Despite accidents, Railways dithers over anti-collision device
January 17th, 2010 - 12:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Shudip Talukdar
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Even as there was yet another train collision resulting in three deaths, the railway ministry drags its feet over the commissioning of an indigenously ... Read more...
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Bio-energy centre launched at IIT-Kharagpur
January 5th, 2010 - 11:07 pm ICT by IANS
Kharagpur (West Bengal), Jan 5 (IANS) The country's first bio-energy centre was launched at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur Tuesday for undertaking research, teaching and technological implementation of conventional and non-conventional energy.
The ... Read more...
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Radhakrishnan takes over as new ISRO chief
October 31st, 2009 - 4:52 pm ICT by ANI
Bangalore, Oct. 31 (ANI): Dr K Radhakrishnan, one of the key persons behind India's Chandrayaan-1 mission, on Saturday took over as the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.Dr Radhakrishnan, also ... Read more...
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K. Radhakrishnan takes over as new ISRO chairman
October 31st, 2009 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 31 (IANS) Eminent scientist K. Radhakrishnan Saturday took over as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre here and acknowledged the expectations ... Read more...
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K. Radhakrishnan named new ISRO chief
October 24th, 2009 - 10:00 pm ICT by IANS
Thrissur (Kerala), Oct 24 (IANS) K. Radhakrishnan, director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, was Saturday named the next chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Armed with ... Read more...
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Top ranking for Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
October 13th, 2009 - 5:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has been rated the best in South Asia in terms of visibility and scholarly papers on the net in the ... Read more...
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Indian-Americans engineer radio chip that mimics human ear
June 4th, 2009 - 3:18 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 4 (IANS) Indian Americans have engineered a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip mimicking the inner ear, or cochlea, one that could enable wireless devices to receive cell phone, Internet, radio ... Read more...
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From pile of garbage, emerges pristine Vrindavan pond
February 2nd, 2009 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
Vrindavan (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 2 (IANS) When a voluntary group launched a project last winter to restore a mythologically significant pond that lay under heaps of garbage in this temple town, the ... Read more...
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Indian breakthrough taps gravity to help road-rail travel
October 24th, 2008 - 9:29 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) An Indian breakthrough will help road-rail travel ride on gravity power alone that can potentially save the world 70 percent of fossil fuels required for the purpose ... Read more...
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IIT-Kharagpur to tie up with 15 foreign institutes
July 26th, 2008 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
Kharagpur (West Bengal), July 25 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-K) will soon collaborate with 15 foreign universities for academic and research activities, the director of the institute said here Friday. ... Read more...
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Sarin to quit Vodafone, tipped to join buyout firm (Lead)
May 27th, 2008 - 6:15 pm ICT by admin
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, May 27 (IANS) Indian-born Arun Sarin stunned the world of business Tuesday by announcing he is stepping down as chief executive of Vodafone after leading the world's largest ... Read more...
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Vodafone’s Indian-born chief executive Arun Sarin to quit
May 27th, 2008 - 3:27 pm ICT by admin
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, May 27 (IANS) Arun Sarin stunned the world of business Tuesday by announcing he is stepping down as chief executive of Vodafone after leading the world's largest mobile ... Read more...
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IIT alumnus says assembly technique for nanowires may pave way for cancer detection technology (Re-i
March 9th, 2008 - 4:59 pm ICT by admin
London , March 9 (ANI): An Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur alumnus says that bottom-up manufacturing may hold the key to designing tiny medical devices that have the capability of testing ... Read more...
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IIT alumnus says assembly technique for nanowires may pave way for cancer detection technology
March 8th, 2008 - 1:34 pm ICT by admin
London, March 8 (ANI): An Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur alumnus says that bottom-up manufacturing may hold the key to designing tiny medical devices that have the capability of testing multiple molecules ... Read more...
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