New Delhi: In the race with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pitched for a Rs 5000 crore supercomputer for India. But the question is whether it will be enough to match China's prowess. "Over the past few decades, India's relative position in the world of science has been declining and we have been overtaken by countries like China," the Prime Minister said on Tuesday. India has 17 per cent...
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Kolkata: There was a huge solar flare in 1859. It was so large that it could be seen with the naked eye. In 1989, a solar storm wiped out Canada's northern electric grid. Canada was out of power for almost three days. Violent magnetic emissions from the sun could one day destroy all electronic equipment on earth. An Indian scientist from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research has helped...01:41 PM, Mar 08, 2011
As the year began, a large congregation of scientists at the 98th Science Congress in Chennai got a dose of Prime Ministerial advice: Enhance the research environment with more public funding and increase linkages with the industry. Exhorting them to think ‘big’, Manmohan Singh ushered in the ‘Decade of Innovation’. Meanwhile, in a quiet ceremony in Bangalore, a new Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN) was opened at the Indian...04:34 PM, Feb 09, 2011
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Lahore: Stating that he had a fruitful discussion with the Indian Premier League chief Rajiv Shukla, former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt said that he has been assured that the Pakistani players' would be allowed to take part in the next edition of the IPL. According to a report in Daily Dawn, Butt briefed his successor, Zaka Ashraf on the discussions he had with Shukla and former BCCI...10:06 AM, May 27, 2008
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