Exensys Software Solutions Limited, one of the leading Indian software product company in the Enterprise Space, IT Consulting and Telecom Solutions, inaugurated its second Research and Development Centre at Madhapur, Hi Tech City, Hyderabad on 23rd June.
This new Research and Development Centre was inaugurated by Mr. Mohammad Shams Qamar, CEO and Managing Director, who said “Exensys has always considered its people as its first customers and its most valuable assets. The ability of the team members to master emerging and cutting edge technologies and the understanding of best practices and ..
Kerala Tourism’s official website, www.keralatourism.org has won the Net4 PC World Web Award 2008 instituted by the technology magazine PC World, for the best tourism website in India. In its second year, the PC World Web Awards chose www.keralatourism.org from among 57 websites across 31 popular categories.
www.keralatourism.org was launched in 1998 and currently receives around 1,50,000 visitors and 6,00,000 page views per month. The site offers thousands of pages on Kerala, indexed in all major search engines. Designed and maintained by Invis Multimedia, the website was judged as the mos..
Last summer, Terri Harlow faced a decision between two types of follow-up treatments for breast cancer: the standard, six-week-long whole-breast radiation, or a newer, one-week option called MammoSite radiation.
Harlow turned to the renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston for a second opinion. "I tried to cover every base," she says.
But Harlow, 60, decided not to travel to Boston from where she lives in West Chester, Pa. She discovered that by submitting her medical records through a service called Partners Online Specialty Consultations (POSC), she could obtain a seco..
Indian scientists are very much secular but that doesn't go against their belief in god. A survey has found that many of them seek divine blessings before embarking on major scientific missions.
The study, 'Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists in India', carried out by the Trinity College of the US with help from Centre for Inquiry (CFI) India, a non-profit organisation, has found that 49 percent of scientists believe prayer is 'efficacious as therapy'.
Though most of the 1,100 Indian scientists surveyed described themselves as 'secular', they refused t..
Aligarh Muslim University professor Zuber Ahmad has bagged the prestigious fellowship of the American College of Chest Physicians, a university official said Wednesday. Ahmad teaches in the department of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases.
'Ahmad will be honoured at the Chest Conference 2008, to be held in October in Philadelphia, US,' AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar told IANS by phone.
He said that the fellowship is given to physicians for their outstanding contribution to the field of respiratory medicine.
Ahmad, who heads the department, has been conducting research on t..
Asia's first -- and the world's second -- human DNA bank has been set up at the Biotech Park in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow district, said an official Wednesday.
'DNA Identification System (DIS) will be one of the most important functions of the DNA bank that will facilitate establishing identity of individuals within a few seconds,' Biotech Park's CEO P.K. Seth told IANS.
The members of the DNA bank will receive a microchip based DNA card containing information of their fingerprints, and anthropological details, said Seth.
The information stored on the DNA ca..
Kerala has launched a new initiative, Malayalam Computing, to help people across the state operate computers in their mother tongue and thereby bridge the digital divide.
The website www.malayalam.kerala.gov.in launched by the government provides information on how to facilitate the use of Malayalam in computers.
'Once you enable a language in the machine, you can send mails and chat using the language. You need not use English. With this initiative we aim to overcome the language barrier, a key obstacle in bridging the digital-divide,' said S.B. Biju, state coordinator for Kera..
India has set up a special cell to counter 'the growing threat to our space assets', Defence Minister A.K. Antony announced here Tuesday.
Addressing the Unified Commanders' Conference here, he said, 'Although we want to utilise space for peaceful purposes and remain committed to our policy of non-weaponisation of space, offensive counter space systems like anti-satellite weaponry, new classes of heavy-lift and small boosters and an improved array of military space systems have emerged in our neighbourhood.'
The new cell will function under the Integrated Defence S..
They are budding Edisons. For them synthesis and fusion of ideas, plucked from nature with physical laws, opens a limitless universe of ergonomics - the science of human engineering.
They are the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay)'s masters in designing students, who have adorned a hall for their Design Degree Show 2008 with gadgets that seem to jump out from a sci-fi novel, but having a 'desi' touch.
Riding a cycle on backwaters to school, a book for the visually challenged, a child carrier for two-wheelers, redesign of Indian coins, and protective shelter for animals..
They are budding Edisons. For them synthesis and fusion of ideas, plucked from nature with physical laws, opens a limitless universe of ergonomics - the science of human engineering.
They are the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay)'s masters in designing students, who have adorned a hall for their Design Degree Show 2008 with gadgets that seem to jump out from a sci-fi novel, but having a 'desi' touch.
Riding a cycle on backwaters to school, a book for the visually challenged, a child carrier for two-wheelers, redesign of Indian coins, and protective shelter for animals..
The suicide by Ritika Toya Chatterjee, a B.Tech final year student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), is the fifth in three years that is being blamed on a 'hush-hush grading system' and a 'poor grievance redressal mechanism'.
Ritika killed herself May 30 after she failed in two of her final semester exams, despite having offers to join any of the six Indian Institutes of Management she wanted to. Ritika's suicide was nothing new for IIT-K. It was the second in 45 days and seventh in three years. Five of the seven suicides were due to failure in e..
The suicide by Ritika Toya Chatterjee, a B.Tech final year student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), is the fifth in three years that is being blamed on a 'hush-hush grading system' and a 'poor grievance redressal mechanism'.
Ritika killed herself May 30 after she failed in two of her final semester exams, despite having offers to join any of the six Indian Institutes of Management she wanted to. Ritika's suicide was nothing new for IIT-K. It was the second in 45 days and seventh in three years. Five of the seven suicides were due to failure in e..
Three former software engineers and their three accomplices have been arrested by police on charges of kidnapping for ransom techies in this IT hub of India.
Police identified the arrested men as Muniram, 32, Sandesh, 25, and Bharath Amla, 40, all engineering graduates, D.K. Kiran, 26, a graduate in tourism and hospitality, Praveen, 25, and Rajkumar, 28.
Police said all six had left their jobs and turned to crime to get rich quickly.
Two cars, weapons, Rs.400,00 and six cell-phones were seized from them, Bangalore Police Commissioner Neelam Achuta Rao told reporters Saturday.
He sai..
Indian scientists have discovered 67 new animal species, including fishes, spiders and crop eating insects, and 29 plant species, including grass and flower varieties, last year.
'All these discoveries were made in 2007 and they are vital additions to the plant and animal science of India and the world,' Ramakrishna, director of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), told IANS Thursday.
'Whenever we come across any new species, we bring them to the laboratories and match them with the present ones and if they are unique then we record them,' he said.
He said a majority ..
How about a marker pen with red chilli or turmeric ink? Or a mosquito repellent produced from papaya leaves? Budding scientists from Maharashtra and Gujarat have come up with these products, receiving recognition at an international science fair.
'Increasing cases of malaria and dengue fever led us to find a solution. The initial idea was to find an eco-friendly method to control mosquitoes,' said Divya Venkatraman, a student of Modern English School, Mumbai.
Venkatraman and her classmate Neha Kulkarni have developed an extract from the leaves of papaya and tested it at diff..
How about a marker pen with red chilly or turmeric ink? Or a mosquito repellent produced from papaya leaves? Budding scientists from Maharashtra and Gujarat have come up with these products, receiving recognition at an international science fair.
'Increasing cases of malaria and dengue fever led us to find a solution. The initial idea was to find an eco-friendly method to control mosquitoes,' said Divya Venkatraman, a student of Modern English School, Mumbai.
Venkatraman and her classmate Neha Kulkarni have developed an extract from the leaves of papaya and tested it at differen..
India will set up 550 additional Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) and 1,350 automatic rain gauge (ARG) stations to provide district level agricultural met advisory to millions of farmers.
Inaugurating the district level agro-met advisory service (DASS), Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said this will help farmers to take advantage of benevolent weather and minimise the crop damage due to worst weather conditions.
Sibal said despite considerable technological advancement and improved irrigation facilities, Indian agriculture continues to depend on fluctuating weather conditio..
The central government has finally agreed to restructure the 102-year-old Central Research Institute at Kasauli town in Himachal Pradesh that was manufacturing vaccines against several diseases.
An assurance to this was given by union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to Himachal Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, officials said here Wednesday.
Ramadoss has assured Dhumal that an expert committee would shortly visit the institute to evaluate its working. The experts would also examine the possibilities of expansion of the research institute so that its employees could b..
Millions of Indian farmers will soon get district specific agro-weather advisories to boost agricultural produce and reduce losses due to the vagaries of nature.
'This will be done by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in collaboration with agricultural universities across the country. We have devised a model through which farmers will get specific advisories about their crops,' IMD deputy director general R.C. Bhatia told IANS.
He said armers were currently provided only weather forecasts. The agro advisory will include inputs like which crop is good at what time and wh..
Jai Ram's father earns less than Rs.80 a day for eight hours of back-breaking labour, but today his joy is overflowing at his son having cracked the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exam - thanks to Super 30, an innovative coaching institute here.
Jai Ram, who belongs to Other Backward Classes (OBC), secured the 2,421st rank in the general category in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), and 309th in the OBC category. His father, Shrikishna Nandan Sah, is celebrating his son's astounding achievement with his friends, relatives and neighbours.
'I never t..
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National University of Singapore (NUS) for exchange of scientific, academic and technical information.
They will also exchange appropriate academic material and other information of mutual interest for which they hold intellectual property rights.
The two institutions will identify opportunities for the commercialization of technology. They will also provide opportunities to each other in participating in joint scientific activities like giving degrees and holding seminars and c..
The 50th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) would be held here Saturday. National University of Singapore president Shih Choon Fong will deliver the convocation address.
Director of IIT-K Sanjay G. Dhande told reporters here Friday that this was for the first time in the history of the IITs that a mechanical scientist and the president of a foreign university would address the convocation.
He said degrees would be conferred upon 993 engineering graduates. The masters degrees would be awarded to 389 students, including 27 MBA, six masters of designing course, ..
After 'Hanuman' and 'Krishna', it is the turn of an animated mythological 'Dashavatar', about Lord Vishnu's 10 incarnations, to entertain the audiences. Made on a budget of about Rs.120 million, the film is ready to take the Indian cinema halls June 13.
Produced by Pune-based Phoebus Media and Anushvi Productions, the 115 minute 2D animated feature weaves together the fascinating stories of Lord Rama and Krishna, Parashuram, Vaman, Narasimha and Buddha, and how they descended on earth to rid the world of evil and save mankind.
Supriya Thakore, director..
A state-of-the-art DNA bar coding centre for all forms of life will start functioning here from June 11, an official said Friday.
'The Western Ghats area is an area of rich biodiversity and the new centre will create a data base of organisms so as to help in future studies. To begin with, the various varieties of ginger and pepper would be bar coded,' Prakash Kumar a scientist attached to the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (STEC) told reporters here Friday.
The new facility would be in the Tropical Botanical and Garden Research Institute and STEC c..
After the commercial debacle of his last film 'Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag', producer-director Ram Gopal Varma is leaving no stone unturned to promote his next release 'Sarkar Raj'.
Varma, along with his co-producer Pravin Nischal, has tied up with Mauj Mobile, a division of People Group's Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS), which has conceptualised and designed a game based on the storyline of the film.
The game is based on Shankar Nagre, the protagonist of the film played by Abhishek Bachchan. The player has to solve a kidnapping mystery and prove his innocence battl..
After the commercial debacle of his last film 'Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag', producer-director Ram Gopal Varma is leaving no stone unturned to promote his next release 'Sarkar Raj'.
Varma, along with his co-producer Pravin Nischal, has tied up with Mauj Mobile, a division of People Group's Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS), which has conceptualised and designed a game based on the storyline of the film.
The game is based on Shankar Nagre, the protagonist of the film played by Abhishek Bachchan. The player has to solve a kidnapping mystery and prove his innocence battl..
The Delhi High Court Thursday allowed proceedings against Avinash Bajaj, managing director of Baazee.com, for allowing an auction of a pornographic video clip involving two students on his website.
Justice S. Murlidhar allowed the proceeding under sections 67 (publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form) and 85 of the Information Technology Act, which fixes the responsibility of a person for the conduct of business of the company as well as the company.
However, the court quashed the criminal proceedings against him under sections 292 (sale of obscene books) and 294 (obs..
Former scientific and technology advisor to four Indian prime ministers, Vasant Gowariker has been admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Bandra here, a senior Maharashtra official said Thursday.
Gowariker suffered brain haemorrhage late last week at Pune and was rushed here.
A senior state government official described his condition as "stable".
Gowariker is former head of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and it was during his tenure that India achieved the SLV-3 project, the country's first rocket to put a scientific satellite in earth orbit.
Chief Minister Vilas..
He was a secret service agent who used to torment freedom fighters when Goa was under Portuguese rule. Now some crucial missing links on 'Agente Monteiro' have surfaced in cyberspace.
In an unusual series of developments over the past couple of months, a posting on Goanet (goanet.org) on the man has led to the unearthing of an interesting, though painful, chapter of history.
Agente Monteiro has long been a dreaded name in Goa because of the legendary brutality with which he is believed to have acted against anyone who challenged the colonial state then under Portuguese rule...
He was a secret service agent who used to torment freedom fighters when Goa was under Portuguese rule. Now some crucial missing links on 'Agente Monteiro' have surfaced in cyberspace.
In an unusual series of developments over the past couple of months, a posting on Goanet (goanet.org) on the man has led to the unearthing of an interesting, though painful, chapter of history.
Agente Monteiro has long been a dreaded name in Goa because of the legendary brutality with which he is believed to have acted against anyone who challenged the colonial state then under Portuguese rule...
Climate change is warming Britain's waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating storms and floods, the government said in a report published Wednesday. The "Marine Climate Change Impacts" report, drawn up by coalition of government bodies and researchers, said 2006 was the warmest year ever recorded for Britain's water..
Bangalore, January 15th , 2008, Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that it is among the first systems integrators (SIs) to provide design and implementation services for the SAP® Interactive Forms software by Adobe. This new, innovative SAP program is designed to enable selected SIs to provide SAP customers business process ..
In a new report, U.S. researchers describe the improvement in brain function that occurred in a patient with Alzheimer's disease just minutes after receiving an injection in the spine of the arthritis drug Enbrel (also known as etanercept). For instance, just prior to treatment the patient was agitated and could not name the state. Ten minutes after treatment, he appeared calmer, more attenti..
HOUSTON - NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. CST Tuesday, Jan. 15, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and a South Korean spaceflight participant. The briefing will originate from NASAâ..
This morning at the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, Google Engineering Director Andrew Moore announced a new version of Sky in Google Earth. Sky now includes several new features that provide scientists, students and amateur stargazers with new tools to explore the millions of stars and galaxies visible in Sky, get up to date on current sky events, learn basic concepts of astronomy..
Two major new studies grapple with the conundrum at the core of autism, the often-devastating disorder that can make it difficult for children to connect with their fellow humans. This news brings us two big steps further down the path of understanding this complex, enigmatic disease. And it reassures all parents that childhood vaccines do not appear to increase the risk of autism.
On Thursday..
Toronto has become the first city in North America to have more than a million Facebook users.
An online survey released Wednesday also showed that seven million Canadians of a total population of 32 million use Facebook as of today.
'Facebook started just over a year ago and has already stormed Canada. It has become a phenomenon here,' Brian Singh, managing director of ZINC Resea..
Goa has unveiled plans for a super-ambitious broadband network project to build a state that's 'enabled by IT to be efficient and accountable with a global thinking approach'.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the Goa Broadband Network (GBBN) Friday amid both expectations and apprehensions as to how exactly the project will work and at what cost.
Official statements here s..
Sky-watchers had a good day out Wednesday as Mars came closest to Earth since 2003 and was visible to the naked eye from the eastern sky.
Astronomers said Mars' closeness to Earth would remain a record at least till 2016. Currently, Mars is some 87 million km away from Earth and experts say it is pretty close.
Nehru Planetarium director N. Rathnasree said Mars was closest to Earth at 5...
Ayurveda remedies now at the click of a mouse! This is what the National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA) here promises for those who want to follow the age-old herbal system of Indian medicine for any ailment.
The NIA will begin its online consultancy services within a month and later also offer telemedicine, said institute director Mahesh Chandra Sharma.
'With our online consultancy service..
A low-cost technology developed by scientists at ICARDA to treat high level of magnesium in soil by using calcium has demonstrated the potential to double the crop yield in magnesium-rich soils in Central Asia. In southern Kazakhstan alone, more than 150,000 hectares of land is affected by high levels of magnesium, which causes soil degradation and seriously reduces crop yield. Scientists have ..
Anand Mani, a pathology test vendor, wanted to gift his unborn child something special and his heart was set on saving the baby's stem cells for a disease free future. But the process was expensive.
Mani's dream may not have come true but for a new EMI (equated monthly instalments) payment plan.
'I wanted to bank my child's stem cell. If I hadn't been able to do it fo..
Astronaut Sunita Williams arrived here Thursday to a warm and cheerful welcome, a day after her 42nd birthday was celebrated. Her father Deepak Pandya cut the cake at the residence of Sunita's uncle Vithal Pandya.
The astronaut, who stayed a record 195 days in space, arrived on an Air India flight Thursday morning. This is her second visit to Gujarat; the first was in 1998.
Sunita is sch..
According to a recent article in Computerworld, Microsoft released a new Windows Vista update, specifically designed to boost performance in the new operating system proving that performance remains a top concern for computer sites. Issues addressed by the "performance booster" update are speed of wake-up from hibernation and quicker time calculation for the movement of large files.
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While India is still debating how to make the Indo-US nuclear deal work, an American company, anxious to enter the Indian market, has offered to build commercial nuclear power reactors in the country.
These reactors will rely entirely on India's thorium resources -- except at the start - and thereby remove the objections of critics.
The California-based Dauvergne Brothers Inc (DBI) says ..
Every year crops worth hundreds of millions of dollars are lost and thousands of farmers are driven towards economic despondency because of drought. Climate change and global warming are increasing the threat of reduced rainfall and availability of water for agriculture.
Agricultural scientists are faced with the challenge of developing varieties that can withstand drought and save the liveli..
Scientists have for the first time found uranium in 'exceptionally high concentration' in Ladakh, the icy Himalayan region in Jammu and Kashmir that has strategic significance for India.
Samples of rocks analysed in a German laboratory have revealed uranium content to be as high as 5.36 percent compared to around 0.1 percent or less in ores present elsewhere in the country.
India..
The Jharkhand police plans to set up a Geographical Information System (GIS) centre to track the movement of Maoists in the state.
The state police would seek the help of the Jharkhand Space Application Centre (JSAC) to get a detailed report of the topography of the state. 'We will set up a GIS centre which will help officials to crack down on criminals and Maoist rebels,' a senior p..
India is considering a manned mission to space soon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Thursday.
'We are seriously considering a manned space mission. But we will first have to study and prepare a report within a year on newer technologies to develop capsules to send men to space and bring them back safely,' Nair told a press conference here.
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Micronet, a worldwide provider of innovative networking products, today announced its new innovative gigabit switch for carriers and enterprises.
Micronet SP6148WS 48-Port Gigabit Web Smart Switch delivers truly non-blocking and wire-speed Gigabit performance for service providers and enterprises that demand high-port density applications. Moreover, it brings advanced features, such as tag-base..
NETGEAR® Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced the availability of ReadyNASâ..
Wipro-NewLogic, the semiconductor IP business unit of Wipro Technologies, today announced the release of its Bluetooth 2.0+EDR baseband RTL and software stack.
This low-power and flexible Bluetooth 2.0+EDR architecture is upgradeable to Bluetooth 2.1+EDR by software and builds up on the companyâ..
Global software giant Microsoft Wednesday unveiled yet another initiative to make computer education easier, accessible and affordable for the poor through the use of information, communication and technology (ICT).
With the launch its programme called Unlimited Potential Microsoft aims to make technology available to over a billion poor people by 2015.
'Our founding vision of a comput..
NASA managers kept close tabs on the weather Thursday as thunderstorms and low clouds threatened to prevent space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts from landing after a trip to the international space station.
The shuttle's first landing opportunity was at 1:55 p.m. EDT Thursday, when predictions called for thunderstorms within 34 miles and clouds within 8,000 feet of the landing s..
Apple Inc. says its highly anticipated iPhone will have a battery life that supports 8 hours of talk time, better than what the company originally estimated in January. The company said Monday the battery also supports 7 hours of video playback, 6 hours of Internet use, 24 hours of music playback, and it will feature up to 10 days of standby time before requiring a recharge.In January, Apple said..
The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off into outer space Friday to repair the international space station. The voyage is the shuttle's first mission this year, following a freak hale storm earlier in the year. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.
The first space shuttle launch of 2007 went flawlessly. George Diller is a NASA spokesman.
"Five, four, three, two, one, and lift-off of..
Mark your calendars and get out your sleeping bags. Apple and AT&T stores will begin selling the much-awaited iPhone on June 29, and lines are expected to be long. The combination iPod, cell phone and Internet device "will be sold out by mid-afternoon" on opening day, predicts Richard Doherty, an independent analyst with The Envisioneering Group. "There's that much anticipa..
