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KPOs: India most sought after destination August 3, 2006 India leads the pack for the most sought after destination for Knowledge Process Outsourcing and the KPO industry is estimated to........ Read more 'India to become leading technical textiles exporter' August 4, 2006 New Delhi, Aug 4. (UNI): With a large textile manufacturing base and technical manpower, India has the potential to become a leading exporter of various technical textile products......... Read more India sitting on engg services offshoring goldmine August 3, 2006 Offshoring of engineering services can be $40 billion opportunity for the Indian IT industry by 2020....... Read more Dev's project gets further recognition july 31, 2006 Ludhiana, july 31: These certainly are happy days for Avtar Singh Dev. First, the Science Technology Entrepreneur Park(STEP) extended....... Read more

IT & Software

PCs for the poor: as good as their hype? Technologists are at odds over how to bridge the digital divide. What one group calls the ultimate solution, anothe....... Read more Sequenom Selects Tata Consultancy Services to Develop Next Generation Framework for Life Science Software Applications July 31, 2006 MUMBAI, India and SAN DIEGO, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM), a leading provider of genetic analysis .......... Read more

Technical Education

'IITs lack spirit of innovation' August 01, 2006 there is one cartoon character Rajat Gupta, former MD of McKinsey and Co, really digs, it is Asok, the intern who graces Scott Adams....... Read more

IPR

ICSA bags 2 provisional patents August 01, 2006 ICSA India Limited has informed that it has secured two patents (provisional) for its products from the controller of patents, regional patent office, government of India....... Read more

Electronics & Communication

India begins trial IPTV services July 31, 2006 BANGALORE, India - India's state-owned communications services provider, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd,....... Read more Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears July 31, 2006 Eckard Wimmer knows of a shortcut terrorists could someday use to get their hands on the lethal viruses that cause Ebola and smallpox,....... Read more Samtel's OLED for Mobiles Targets Launch in 2008 India's Samtel Industries will start manufacturing organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays for mobile phones by 2008,....... Read more Bangalore may become wireless broadband city August 04, 2006 BANGALORE: If things go as planned, Bangalore may emerge as India's first city with wireless broadband Internet connectivity in about two years,....... Read more

Energy & Environment

Biodiesel: fuel of the future? WITH THE upsurge in economic activities, India is consuming over a whopping 127 million tonnes of crude oil a year and is forced to,....... Read more Why you can expect better weather forecasts August 04, 2006 If you have wondered why the monsoon holds India to ransom every year, and why our weather forecasts are,....... Read more

Nanotechnology

CMU PROFESSOR SAYS NANOTECHNOLOGY STUDY MAY LEAD TO TINIER COMPUTERS MOUNT PLEASANT - Ever had the urge to slip your 500-gigabyte desktop computer into your back,...... Read more

Pharma, Biotech & Health

Ranbaxy Invalidates Pfizer's '995 Lipitor U.S. Patent PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy) announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals,........ Read more Advantage China in low-cost drugs: study August 3, 2006 NEW DELHI, AUG 3: Giving a thumbs down to India's much touted cost-effective and high-skill advantage in the pharmaceutical sector,........ Read more Glenmark plans Phase-II trials of anti-diarrhoea drug August 3, 2006 Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received approval from Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to initiate Phase-II trials for its in-licensed anti-diarrhoeal product, crofelemer........ Read more Threat from abroad: Boosting prospects of basmati rice Although the patent on the long grained and aromatic basmati rice variety grown in the Himalayan foothills of India and Pakistan held by an........ Read more NATIONAL BIO-TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY The National Biotechnology Development Strategy aims at creating such tools and technologies that address the problems of the largest,........ Read more

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Edited by Moinudeen and Vineet
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