Everything you need to know about Kharagpur Technology So: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Kharagpur Technology So: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
The Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vardhan has urged India's scientific community to celebrate the spirit of 'Make in India' by conceptualising processes and products that cover everything from space conquest to the building blocks of life to mundane construction material
The recently launched Xiaomi Mi 4i to be available through Flipkart on 30 April at a price of Rs 12,999.
The latest Smartphone from Xiaomi, Mi 4i is launched in India at a price of Rs. 12,999 and the phone will be available through Flipkart on 30 April.
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The Vivo X5Max smartphone is the latest phone with 5.50 inch 1080x1920 display and the phone is powered by 1.7GHz processor. Phone is fitted with 2GB RAM and come with 13-megapixel rear camera.
Washington, May 2 (IANS) Cryptographers have demonstrated that even the most secure computers are vulnerable to attacks -- and the increasing popularity of cloud computing makes the threat even greater.
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, said Wednesday.
London, May 2 (ANI): Researchers are adapting technologies - originally made for robot navigation - to help visually impaired people navigate indoor and outdoor spaces independently.
London, May 1 (ANI): Japanese researchers have claimed to have successfully grown hair on hairless mice, raising new hopes of a cure for baldness.
Lanzhou (China), May 1 (Xinhua-ANI): The number of glacial lakes in the Himalayas has reduced in recent years, but their total area has increased, a research revealed here on Tuesday.
London, April 30 (IANS) A Japanese research team has set a new record for deep-sea drilling depth, reaching 25,400 feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface.
London, April 30 (IANS) New hopes of a cure for baldness have been sparked after Japanese researchers claimed to have successfully grown hair on hairless mice, The Independent reported Monday.
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Aiming to cut costs by nearly 65 percent while improving scalability, multinational conglomerate Essar Group has rolled out Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud services platform, offering web-based applications with high performance and scalability.
Hangzhou, Apr 30 (Xinhua-ANI): Researchers in east China's Zhejiang Province are working on a project that aims to convert kitchen waste into biofuel.
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Parliament Monday passed a bill which will make the six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) capable of granting degrees to the engineers that pass out.
London, Apr 30 (ANI): Technology-addicts often go 48 hours without talking to anyone in person, according to a new study.
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Around 10 lakh students Sunday appeared in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) 2012 at 1,735 centres across the country.
London, Apr 29 (ANI): A Japanese research institute has claimed that its deep-sea drilling probe has set a new record for depth by reaching 25,400 feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface.
Lucknow, April 28 (IANS) Taking a step towards providing free laptops and tablets to students who have passed class X and XII, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has formed a committee to oversee their purchase and subsequent implementation of his Samajwadi Party's poll promise.
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) India's monsoon is likely to be normal, Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said here Thursday.
Sydney, Apr 26 (ANI): A physicist from Sydney has created a tiny computer of 300 atoms hovering in space that has the potential to provide insights into how materials behave at the quantum level that none of today's conventional computers would be capable of calculating.
Thiruvananthapuram, April 24 (IANS) Giving competition to the government's Aakash tablet, Telmoco Development Labs Pvt. has come out with a Tablet PC - Attitude Daksha - a 7-inch tablet variant for Rs.5,399 inclusive of all taxes.
Washington, Apr 24(ANI): Swedish researcher Annika Steiber at Chalmers University of Technology has completed a unique research on Google and the research has revealed various interesting facts about the search engine.
Hyderabad, April 24 (IANS) US software and solutions company CA Technologies has set up its Asia innovation unit at its development centre here in partnership with the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H).
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Admissions to architecture institutions in the country should be based on entrance tests conforming to the minimum standards prescribed in the Architects Act, heads of leading architecture schools said here Tuesday.
New Delhi, Apr 24 (ANI): Asserting that while modernisation remains the topmost priority of the government, Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Tuesday said this however cannot be done at the cost of a set of core values-transparency, probity and accountability.
London, Apr 24 (ANI): A public policy analyst at Google, Naomi Gummer has said it was a "myth" that laws can prevent children from viewing explicit material, because the pace of technological development would render legislation a "blunt instrument".
Washington, April 24 (IANS) Google happens to be one of the world's most innovative companies thanks to its corporate culture and out-of-the-box thinking, a resercher says.
Washington, Apr 22(ANI): The Pentagon report of a 13,000-mph test flight over Pacific as said high speed caused portions of the aircraft's skin to peel from the aerostructure and the resultant gaps created strong shock waves, causing the vehicle to roll over abruptly.
Beijing, April 22 (IANS) Ten ordinary Chinese have been recognized as national role models, based on the results of a quarterly online poll.
Beijing, Apr 21 (Xinhua-ANI): Chinese citizens are increasingly relying on mobile phones as a primary method of communication, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Friday.
Beijing, April 20 (IANS) The number of cellular phone users in China has surpassed one-billion mark following an increase of over 32 million users in the first quarter of this year, the government said Friday.
Washington, April 20 (IANS) Vehicular exhausts and emissions from planes and powerplants kill 13,000 people prematurely in the UK every year, says a study.
Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): Emissions from cars, trucks, planes and powerplants cause 13,000 premature deaths in the United Kingdom each year, according to a new study.
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The department of information technology (DIT) was Thursday formally named department of electronics and information technology by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal to give importance to the electronics sector.
One can expect a good news on the front of treatment of malaria as a possible new optical imaging system may make the diagnosis of malaria a lot easier, speedier and precise, a new study has suggested.
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will boost economic growth by around 1.5 percent, Adi Godrej, president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), said Thursday.
Washington, Apr 19 (ANI): Identifying people by capturing pictures of their eyes is becoming easier, a new study has revealed.
Washington, April 19 (ANI): Researchers say a new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global river water flow into the oceans.
Washington, Apr 19 (ANI): A potential new optical imaging system may make the diagnosis of malaria much easier, faster and more accurate, a new study has revealed.
In the recent years the trend in the internet users in India has shown some astonishing signs in comparison to the global scenario. Most interestingly, traditional healing sciences like yoga and Ayurveda has shown more signs of popularity in the developed nations of western hemisphere than in India where these sciences have been originated and had a history of development for thousands of years.
Washington, April 19 (IANS) A new genre of power plants, using only a tenth of the global river flow into the oceans, could meet the energy needs of a half billion people, without emitting carbon dioxide (CO2), says a study.
Beijing, April 19 (Xinhua-ANI): China will work to further improve technologies to increase the speeds of high-speed trains, according to a document published Wednesday by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has been renamed Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) to give importance to the electronics sector.
New Delhi, Apr 16 (ANI): India is all set to host the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2012 at the Vigyan Bhawan here on Tuesday.
London, Apr 14 (ANI): More than half of Australian children can easily outwit their parents when it comes to going online, thereby enabling them to outsmart adult restrictions.
London, Apr 13 (ANI): In a new study, scientists are focused on determining what happened to the bits of rock that were cast off into space as a result of an asteroid hitting the Earth 65-million-years ago that even killed the dinosaurs.
Sydney, April 13 (IANS) ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitor captopril (CAP), a drug commonly used for the treatment of hypertension and cardiac conditions, can reduce the weight of mice even on a high fat diet, says a new study.
Thiruvananthapuram, April 12 (IANS) Kerala is all set to intensify and strengthen the cooperation in the IT Sector with Singapore following a visit by Group of Technology Companies (GTech) there, an official here said Thursday.
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Benefiting around 45,000 students in the northeastern region, the cabinet Thursday approved a Rs.388.68 crore project to train the youth in the areas of information, electronics and communication technologies (IECT).
Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): A new compound reverses many of the major symptoms associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS), which is the most common form of inherited intellectual disability and a leading cause of autism, a new study has claimed.
Washington, April 12 (IANS) Copper is one of the few metals that can turn carbon dioxide (CO2) into hydrocarbon fuels with little energy and also cut down on emissions. Such a self-energizing system could vastly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired and natural-gas-powered plants.
Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, which will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied before.
London, Apr 11(ANI): Technology giant Apple's value has hit the 600 billion dollar mark for the first time ever, asserting its position as the most valuable US company in the world.
Mumbai, April 11 (IANS) Over 70 percent public sector employees in India feel their employer expects them to be available at all times compared to those who work in private organisations, says the Randstad Workmonitor Survey 2012 - Wave 1.
Beijing, Apr 10 (ANI): Nearly one hundred billion spam messages were sent in China in 2011, a latest survey has revealed.
The tech gadgets mobile devices are playing the most influential role in shaping the psychological as well as physical being of modern man. How at one end we are experiencing new dimensions of freedom and at the other end we are shackled by the new hyper reality of technological innovations that would determine the context in which we have make our enquiry of how mobile technology causes more social isolation.
Beijing, April 9 (ANI): China has reportedly set up a rare earth association in order to streamline the sector's development.
New Delhi, Mar.31 (ANI): The United States and India have launched the jointly developed Open Government Platform at a press event attended by senior officials from both countries at the Press Bureau of India.
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) More than 500,000 Indian students Sunday sat for one of the toughest entrance tests in the country as the Indian Institutes of Technology conducted their joint entrance test, IIT-JEE 2012, at 1,067 centers across the country.
Washington, Apr 8 (ANI): Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi, whose speeches were a key inspiration for the country's pro-democracy movement in the 1980s, has died in the United States at the age of 76.
Beijing, Apr 7 (ANI): China has planned to update the country's nuclear emergency plan and built its capability to handle nuclear emergencies, according to a report.
London, Apr 7 (ANI): A chocolate printer whose prototype was developed by scientists last year is set to go on sale towards the end of April.
Washington, April 5 (IANS) The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has launched a $1 million multi-year campaign to support an India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society, the first of its kind in the US.
Sydney, April 5 (IANS) Clever, inexpensive design can slash energy consumption in new homes by up to 80 percent, says a new study.
London, Apr 5 (ANI): Scientists have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers.
London, Apr 5 (ANI): A dress, which is made of a special fabric and turns transparent when the wearer becomes aroused, may soon be seen on the high street.
Gurgaon, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) here would showcase India's knowledge infrastructure, Corporate Affairs Minister M. Veerappa Moily said during a visit Wednesday.
London, Apr 3 (ANI): The British government's plan of nationwide electronic surveillance that would record every email, phone call and website visited by people, is impossible to enforce and would make UK like Iran and China, a digital expert has said.
Washington, Apr 1 (ANI): Scientists have designed a 500-pound teddy bear that is capable of lifting and carrying an injured fighter out of harm's way.
Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): A powerful yet delicate robotic hand has been developed that can pour juice into a plastic cup with ease and lift and place an egg gently.
Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Corals that have survived heat stress in the past are more likely to survive it in the future, a new study has claimed.
Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): Researchers have shown that a nonoscillating gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Department of Science and Technology (DST) in association with Lockheed Martin Corporation Thursday announced 30 awards for innovations in technology.
Bangalore, March 27 (IANS) Product innovation is lagging behind in India in software and hardware space as the ecosystem for driving it is still in the development stage, an industry expert said Tuesday at a technology conference here.
Bangalore, March 26 (IANS) About 20 Indian whiz kids will showcase their innovations in diverse fields, including a special shoe for the visually impaired, at the fourth Emerging Technologies (EmTech) India event in this tech hub beginning Tuesday.
Beijing, March 26 (IANS) China has launched a website that will help grassroots organisations promoting innovative agricultural technologies among farmers.
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Indian designers are not doing enough to tap the country's traditional textiles and crafts, which are readily inspiring the foreign world, says Simon P. Lock, the founder of the Australia Fashion Week. He also says organisers need to cut down on number of fashion weeks in the country, and rev up the Indian catwalk.
Bangalore, March 24 (IANS) Leading European bank ING Belgium selected Infosys' software product Finacle to transform its core banking operations, the Indian IT bellwether said Saturday.
Kharagpur (West Bengal), March 24 (IANS) Oxford University has decided to allow the toppers of ISC and CBSE exams entry to its undergraduate courses from 2013, an university official said.
Washington, March 23 (IANS) Six outstanding scientists and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including two Indian Americans, will participate in the fourth emerging technologies conference of MIT Technology Review's EmTech India in Bangalore.
Washington, March 22 (ANI): Plants may play a role in electrifying the atmosphere, a new finding has suggested.
Washington, March 22 (ANI): Plants may play a role in electrifying the atmosphere, a new finding has suggested.
London, Mar 16 (ANI): Researchers have devised a new system that could one day allow drone aircrafts taxiing on a runway to recognise and follow hand gestures.
Washington, March 16(ANI): NASA has unveiled a new atlas and catalogue of the entire infrared sky with more than a half-billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
London, Mar 16 (ANI): Researchers have devised a new system that could one day allow drone aircrafts taxiing on a runway to recognise and follow hand gestures.
Washington, March 16(ANI): NASA has unveiled a new atlas and catalogue of the entire infrared sky with more than a half-billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
Melbourne, March 15 (ANI): Drivers don't need to be texting or talking on mobile phones to be distracted enough to get in trouble on the road, even too much thinking can result the same, researchers have warned.
Melbourne, March 15 (ANI): Drivers don't need to be texting or talking on mobile phones to be distracted enough to get in trouble on the road, even too much thinking can result the same, researchers have warned.
London, Mar 14 (ANI): An American multinational corporation has brought Star Trek's universal translator closer to reality by developing a software that turns spoken English into 26 different languages and which 'speaks' in the user's own voice.
London, Mar 14 (ANI): An American multinational corporation has brought Star Trek's universal translator closer to reality by developing a software that turns spoken English into 26 different languages and which 'speaks' in the user's own voice.
Beijing, March 11 (ANI): China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" between 2011 and 2015.
Beijing, March 11 (ANI): China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" between 2011 and 2015.
Washington, March 10 (ANI): Researchers in New Zealand have developed a prototype Bluetooth-enabled personal health monitoring device that would allow patients to upload their vital statistics to their healthcare provider and receive timely advice and medication suggestions.
Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has captured the month-long fusillade of a unique neutron star near the centre of our galaxy erupting with hundreds of X-ray bursts, that were powered by a barrage of thermonuclear explosions its surface, in extreme detail.
Washington, March 10 (ANI): Researchers in New Zealand have developed a prototype Bluetooth-enabled personal health monitoring device that would allow patients to upload their vital statistics to their healthcare provider and receive timely advice and medication suggestions.
Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has captured the month-long fusillade of a unique neutron star near the centre of our galaxy erupting with hundreds of X-ray bursts, that were powered by a barrage of thermonuclear explosions its surface, in extreme detail.
Washington, March 9 (ANI): Taking hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Beijing, Mar 9(ANI): Chinese lawmakers and political advisers have called for a legislation that would require micro-bloggers to register their real names, and laws that would further safeguard personal information.
Melbourne, Mar.9 (ANI): A Pakistan-origin head of an international students group has described the standard of higher education at several Australian universities as very poor.
Beijing, Mar 9(ANI): Chinese lawmakers and political advisers have called for a legislation that would require micro-bloggers to register their real names, and laws that would further safeguard personal information.
