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    • The 83rd session of the Indian Science Congress was inaugurated in Patiala on January 3. The conference focused on scientific and technological endeavours for achieving "food, economic and

  • Electrifying tale

    Electrifying tale

    Power transmission will be done more smoothly in the future with the help of a new electronic device, the thyristor controlled series compensator. The new equipment, using advanced solid state switches, can increase power supply through existing t

  • Some respite

    Some respite

    THE Supreme Court will resume the hearing of the comprehensive writ petition against the Sardar Sarovar Project on January 24. Significantly, the petitioners, Narmada Bachao Andolan and the

  • No more thieving

    INDIA is arming itself take on the enemy in the 'gene war'. It will no longer be easy for foreign firms to steal centuries-old traditional Indian plant varieties. In a bid to check any attempt

  • Not so easy

    Electronic immobilisers have been highly successful in cutting down car thefts. But security experts fear that skilled thieves could 'crack' an immobiliser if the code sent to

  • WHALE OF A SUIT

    British journalist, Mark Votier, may have to pay dearly for his attempt to save the minke whales. The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research has filed a suit against him for

  • A hush hush affair

    A new'hush house'just completed by British engineers for the Portuguese Air Force will drastically cut the noise of jet engines on ground tests to no more than a loud hum. The facility,

  • Lend me your ears

    Lend me your ears

    Hitachi, the Japanese electronics corporation is admirably manipulating the wonders of science for the much ignored field of telecom for the deaf. A fascinating new technology being developed opens up the world for the deaf by making it possible for them

  • Tele tracks on fast tracks

    Tele tracks on fast tracks

    Fibre optic telephone lines which would deliver movies directly to the theatres are all set to stage a revolution if US movie moghuls' high tech plans are to see the light of the day. A new video technology which will complement this mode will radi

  • Identity? No more crisis

    A new version of the memory cards could spell a radical shift in our notions of identity cards, passports or quite simply any kind of documentation. YI is this magic memory material which renders these cards more power and capacity apart from being kinde

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