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Month: February 2017
17 Results
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Why does the sky appear blue?
Thirty years ago, 28 February was announced as National Science Day in India as the world-renowned Raman Effect was invented on that day in 1928. The object of observing National Science Day is not only to honour CV Raman but also to inspire Indian scientists and technologists. Raman’s father Chandra Sekhar Ayer was a professor...
February 28, 2017 -
Hearing loss could soon be reversed
Inherited genetic deficiency is the reason for about half the 250 million cases of hearing loss worldwide. In most of these, the function itself of the organs of the ear is affected and medical intervention is generally not effective. Even devices like hearing aids or implants in the middle and inner ear, which partially restore...
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L&T arm to provide EPC services to Shell projects
Engineering major L&T on Tuesday said that its hydrocarbon subsidiary will provide Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services to Anglo-Dutch oil and gas firm Shell in West Asia, South East Asia and India over the next five years. "L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering has signed an enterprise framework agreement (EFA) with Shell Global Solutions International B.V....
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Indian killing in Kansas was ‘racially motivated’: White House
The White House has condemned the fatal attack on an Indian engineer in Kansas City last week by a US Navy veteran as "racially-motivated hatred". "As more facts come to light," Deputy White House Press Sarah Sanders told reporters that it looks like the Kansas shooting last week was a "racially motivated hatred". Sanders reiterated...
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Will Varanasi be like Delhi?
It is surprising that even as the BJP seems to be doing well in the battle for UP 2017, it has run into rough weather in Narendra Modi’s Varanasi constituency. A recent trip to the city revealed that a Delhi-like situation is building up there because of the party’s decision to deny a ticket to...
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Forgotten facts about the INA
It is amazing that an RTI application regarding the status of soldiers of Indian National Army (INA) has been referred to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) by the Central Information Commission (CIC). According to a recent PTI report the CIC has opined that the MHA is under an obligation to explain the logic or...
February 28, 2017 -
Imperial plunder — II
How many million Indians were victims of famine during the 190 years of British rule? Thirty? Or, may be forty. And overall, India was never deficient in food grain. This has been testified by Robert Orme, the Travancore-born East India Company historian, in his 1778 book A History of Military Transactions of the British Nation...
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Saffronite gains
Though not as triumphant as it has been in the Maharashtra civic elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged eventually as a factor to reckon with in Odisha, if the result of the panchayat election is any indication. True the election has little or no relevance in the national perspective; but as an indicator of...
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Magical gunsmiths?
Some 60 years ago the acerbic VK Krishna Menon had members of the US delegation at the United Nations Security Council squirming in their seats when he asked if American technology was so advanced that it produced guns which fired in one direction only — his way of flaying Washington DC’s line that the weaponry...
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Slain techie’s mother not to allow younger son to return to US
After losing one son in a racist attack in the US last week, Parvatha Vardhini is not ready to take risk by sending back another son to that country. Sai Kishore, who is employed in a firm in the US, arrived here with the body of his elder brother Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead...
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Moving at airline speed – Hyperloop One unveils ‘Vision for India’
A futuristic technology in the transport system could see one whiz from Delhi to Mumbai in a pod-like car in just under one hour. The system, unveiled by Hyperloop One here on Tuesday as part of its "vision for India", promises to revolutionize the advanced surface system by moving people and things at airline speeds....
February 28, 2017 -
Bomb threat call in Delhi, police on alert
Delhi Police was on Tuesday informed by their counterparts at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh about a phone call alleging that bombs were being planted at various locations in the national capital. The phone call was received by Jabalpur SP. It is suspected to be a hoax call. However, police is investigating the matter. Jabalpur SP...
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Efforts being made to improve connectivity in J-K: Modi
Efforts are being made by the central government to improve connectivity and infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. He talked about the efforts while interacting with a group of over 100 youth and children from state who are currently touring different parts of India as part of the initiative...
February 28, 2017 -
Efforts being made to improve connectivity in J-K: Modi
Efforts are being made by the central government to improve connectivity and infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. He talked about the efforts while interacting with a group of over 100 youth and children from state who are currently touring different parts of India as part of the initiative...
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People have to be more tolerant in present times: Mamata
Stating that people nowadays should be more tolerant and there is no place of intolerance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it is the fundamental right of a person to choose his religion. "It is absolutely their freedom of choice what religion they will follow, what they will eat and what they...
February 28, 2017 -
People have to be more tolerant in present times: Mamata
Stating that people nowadays should be more tolerant and there is no place of intolerance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it is the fundamental right of a person to choose his religion. "It is absolutely their freedom of choice what religion they will follow, what they will eat and what they...
February 28, 2017 -
It was not notebandi, but nasbandi: Lalu
Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday sought to liken BJP-led NDA government's last November demonetisation decision with infamous mid-1970s Emergency-era phenomena of forced 'nasbandi' (sterilisation). "It was not notebandi but nasbandi, carried out by the Modi government on crores of people, who were forced to stand in queue for withdrawing their own...
February 28, 2017
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