Indian Students Ensure Robot's Walk To Global Contest
Bespectacled and with numerous files under their arms, 21-year-old Samay Kohli and 19-year-old Arpit Mohan look like any other student. But these two students of premier engineering institute BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, have for the first time in India developed a humanoid robot that they will, despite funding problems, take to the world's biggest robot competition. 'Although Indians staying abroad, that is, non-resident Indians (NRI), have developed humanoids before, we are the first Indians here to have developed one,' Kohli beamed. 'To be more specific we have developed..
Apex Court Wants Swaminathan, Bhargava On GM Food Panel
The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the central government to consider appointing eminent scientists M.S. Swaminathan and P.M. Bhargava as special members of a technical panel that examines the pleas for allowing open-field trials of genetically modified foods and crops in India. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice J.M. Panchal sought the appointments of the two eminent scientists on the government's technical panel saying it would usher transparency in the process of allowing field trials of GM food. The bench's request to the environme..
Apex Court Wants Swaminathan, Bhargava On GM Food Panel
The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the central government to consider appointing eminent scientists M.S. Swaminathan and P.M. Bhargava as special members of a technical panel that examines the pleas for allowing open-field trials of genetically modified foods and crops in India. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice J.M. Panchal sought the appointments of the two eminent scientists on the government's technical panel saying it would usher transparency in the process of allowing field trials of GM food. The bench's request to the environme..
Haryana Makes Computer Education Compulsory In Colleges
Computer education has been made compulsory in all colleges in Haryana to help students find jobs, the state government announced Wednesday. Teaching of computers will have to be done in all study disciplines in colleges and universities, a state government spokesman said here. This was decided at a meeting of top academicians and officials with Haryana Governor A.R. Kidwai here Wednesday. Kurukshetra University has been asked to work out the structure of a six-month computer course. The new course will be launched from the coming academic session in July. The meeting also decided to i..
India Defers Lunar Mission Launch
India's first exploratory mission to moon Chandrayaan-1, scheduled for launch April 9, has been deferred, a top space agency official said here Tuesday. 'As a number of pre-launch tests have to be conducted, it is difficult to meet the April 9 deadline,' Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair told IANS on phone. 'The mission payload has 12 instruments. We will decide on the next launch date by this month-end after a review meeting,' he said. Opting for a flexible approach towards the launch date, Nair said the space agency had deci..
New component design could reduce cost of proposed Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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Agilent Technologies and Runcom Technologies to Collaborate on Wave 2 Mobile WiMAX(tm) Protocol Testing
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Runcom Technologies Ltd. today announced they will extend their WiMAX(tm) collaboration to include Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 Protocol Test. All WiMAX(tm) devices must undergo protocol conformance test (PCT) to become certified for use. To realize the promise of interoperability, the WiMAX industry relies on traceable and effective protocol test solutions. The assurance of interoperability between WiMAX reference designs and protocol test equipment creates customer confidence and enables industry growth. Agilent and Runcom will ensure that their customers..
NASA Adjusts Date of Briefings to Preview March Shuttle Mission
HOUSTON - NASA has rescheduled for Monday, March 3, a daylong series of briefings from the Johnson Space Center on upcoming space shuttle mission STS-123. The briefings, which begin at 8 a.m. CST, will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency..
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