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Monday, September 17, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Canberra: Debate over how and where oceanic island chains, like Hawaii, form, is at an end according to an academic from The Australian National University.
Dr Oliver Nebel from the Research School of Earth Sciences, in the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has been involved in a world-wide collaboration ...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Washington: NASA is seeking proposals for its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs that will create the new technologies needed to enable the agency's future missions while benefiting America.
The SBIR and STTR Programs are designed to provide small bus...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Washington: Three members of the Expedition 32 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months.
Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Washington: NASA's planned ferry flight of space shuttle Endeavour atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) has been postponed until Tuesday, Sept. 18 due to an unfavorable weather forecast for Monday, Sept. 17.
To ensure a safe flight for Endeavour and the SCA, NASA managers, in consultation with the Califor...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Yale Law School will receive a grant from the Ford Foundation to offer 25 Yale Law students an unprecedented chance to gain experience on the frontlines of public interest law next summer. Launched today, the inaugural Ford Foundation Law School Public Interest Fellowship Program is designed to connect highly motivated and accomplished law students to substantive, ten-week placements with the...
Monday, September 17, 2012
PITTSBURGH: Computer users have learned to preserve their privacy by safeguarding passwords, but with the rise of voice authentication systems, they also need to protect unique voice characteristics. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) say that is possible with a system they developed that converts a user's voiceprint into something akin t...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Singapore: Two scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) - Professor Michael Sheetz, Director of the Mechanobiology Institute of Singapore; and Professor Roy Calne, Visiting Professor with the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine's Department of Surgery - have been conferred the prestigious Lasker Awards for making great advanc...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Canberra: ANU continues to climb through the ranks of global universities, rising to 24th in the world according to the QS World University rankings released this week.
Two places up from last year, and the best result for an Australian university, the ranking is the second in as many months to chart the rise of ANU throu...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Report by India Education bureau; Canberra: ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young has today supported ACT Labor’s StudyCanberra policy, to turn the ACT into an education hub.
Chief Minister Katy Gallagher said this week that ACT Labor, if they win next month’s election, will put $2 million towards a plan to capitalise on the wealth of educat...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Hong Kong: Where do you find inspiration? Associate Professor Patrick H. Toy (Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong) and his co-workers find it all around them, even at the dinner table. During a Sichuan hot-pot dinner, he and his research team wondered what it is about such meals that they like so much. They soon found that the pleasurable tingling sen...
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PM announces 1000 crore rupee disaster relief for Uttarakhand (Uttarakhand)
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New Delhi: Following is the text of Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s statement to the media after an aerial survey of disaster affected areas of Uttarakhand:
“Earlier today, Smt. Sonia ..
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India and World Bank Sign Us$ 216 Million Agreement for Kerala State Transport Project (Delhi)
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New Delhi: The Loan and Project Agreements for World Bank (IBRD) assistance of US$ 216 million for Second Kerala State Transport Project were signed between Government of India/Government of Kerala and World Bank at New Delhi today. ..
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Industry Leaders and Experts convene at MDI Gurgaon for the Inaugural Ceremony of PGP Batch 2013 (Haryana)
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Report by India Education bureau, Gurgaon: Management Development Institute, Gurgaon – one of the top B Schools in India - today welcomed the new batch for their graduate programmes – PGPM,PGP-HRM and PGP-IM - for the session ..
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TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran named one of STEMconnector’s '100 CEO Leaders in STEM' (Maharashtra)
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Report by India Education bureau, Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced that their CEO and managing director, N Chandrasekaran, has been named one ..
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Tata Steel provides drinking water facilities to the rural community (Jharkhand)
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Report by India Education bureau, Jamshedpur: To fetch a pot of drinking water, people in rural areas, particularly women have to walk long distances every day just to reach a water-source like hand pump. Due to lack of alternate sources ..
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Union Minister Sharad Pawar Calls for Strengthening International Research Institutions, Sharing Knowledge
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Agriculture & Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar today called for strengthening international research institutions and sharing knowledge so as to realise higher yield potenti ..
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Chinese Film Festival inagurated at New Delhi
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: The Minister for Information & Broadcasting Manish Tewari and Chinese Minister of State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Televison Mr.Cai Fuchao today jointly inaugura ..
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TCS joins US2020 as founding leadership partner
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Report by India Education bureau, Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services today announced that the company has joined US2020 as a founding leadership partner. US2020 is a national STEM Education initiative that aims to engage one million scienc ..
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Digital divide closes among India's 'post-millennials' with 70 percent students owning smart phones nationally
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Report by India Education bureau, Mumbai: India’s ‘post-millennial’ generation seems set to overtake the preceding ‘millennial’ generation or ‘Gen Y’, taking communication over social networks lik ..
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President Pranab Mukherjee attended the first convocation of National Law University Delhi
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee attended the first convocation of National Law University Delhi (NLUD) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi today (June 15, 2013).
Speaking on t ..
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