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"Sandesh Pathak"- A Software application to aid farmers

April 23, 2014

C-DAC Mumbai, IIT-Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, and C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram have jointly developed  the “Sandesh Pathak” software application. The application uses TTS (Text-To-Speech) software to help out farmers by reading out loud SMS messages and benefiting those who may have difficulty in reading. Thus, when a ..

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Stem Cells possess bizarre property property of "Auxeticity", never seen before at cellular level

April 23, 2014

As per a study by the scientists from University of Cambridge, Human stem cells show a bizarre property “Auxeticity” that was never before viewed at the cellular level. Auxeticity has never been seen before at a cellular level. [icon name=”icon-question-sign”]What is Auxeticity? Nearly all ..

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"Kepler-186f" – First Earth-Size Planet In The 'Habitable Zone' of Another Star

April 23, 2014

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/ NASA has discovered the first Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” of another star. The newfound planet, called “Kepler-186f”, was first spotted by NASA’s Kepler space telescope and circles a dim red dwarf star about 490 light-years from Earth. Kepler-186f is the ..

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Bluefin-21 Robotic submarine deployed to solve mystery of lost Malaysian plane MH370

April 21, 2014

Flight MH370 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, went missing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board. It lost contact with air traffic controllers over the South China Sea. The Bluefin-21 robotic submarine (Underwater Autonomous Vehicle) will explore for ..

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INSAT-3E expires well before its actual built life

April 20, 2014

Communications satellite INSAT-3E completed its life even before its expected time and and has become non-operational. Actually, INSAT 3E was built to last 15 years but, as it ran out of on-board oxidizer, it could only last for 10.5 years ..

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British physicist Stuart Parkin awarded prestigious Millennium technology prize

April 13, 2014

UK-born physicist Stuart Parkin won the Millennium technology prize 2014. Parkin won this prize for his breakthrough in magnetic disk drive storage capacity. Parkin’s ground-breaking contribution to the science and application of spintronic materials has led to an abnormal expansion ..

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"3D Hologram Technology" used to broadcast Narendra Modi's rallies all over India

April 12, 2014

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is using the advanced 3D hologram technology, to address around 1,000 rallies in different States on the same day. How Narendra Modi’s live rallies on a single day at several places is made possible ? ..

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'Know your candidate' tool launched by Google for Lok Sabha Elections 2014

April 9, 2014

As part of the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2014 in India, Internet giant Google has come up with its tool ‘Know Your Candidate’ which will assist Citizens of India to get a very basic snapshot information about their Candidates, incumbent ..

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April 7: World Health Day

April 7, 2014

World Health Day was celebrated all over the world on April 7, 2014. Theme for 2014 was “Vector-Borne Diseases (VBDs)”. The campaign for World Health Day this year is ‘small bite: big threat’. Mosquitoes, flies, ticks and bugs may be a ..

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READ (Read-Engage-Achieve-Dream): Indio-US alliance to improve reading skills at Indian Schools

April 6, 2014

READ (Read-Engage-Achieve-Dream): It is an alliance between India and USA to improve the Reading skills of millions of primary school-aged children in India. It is a US $3.2 Million alliance between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Indian ..

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