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- Centre
to boost scientific activity
11 November , 2005
The Union government would come out in a big way to boost scientific
activities, to ensure that plans undertaken in the last 25 years
come to fruition now, Prof C N R Rao, Principal Scientific Advisor
to the Prime Minister, said.
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- India:
Global R&D hub?
11 November , 2005
I ndia with its low cost advantage, high talent and large manpower—is
it becoming the R&D hub of the world? Global majors like Cisco,
IBM, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, Alcatel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems,
Pfizer, Honda, Roche, Bayer AG, Cummins and Whirlpool have already
setup their R&D hubs in India. Many other Fortune 500 companies
are slowly moving their R&D centres to India.
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- Techies
smile as PM promises to double outlay for the sector
16 November , 2005
Scientists and technologists haven’t stopped grinning after Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh announced his government’s intention to
double the outlay for science & technology (S&T) to 2% of GDP. He
was speaking at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Trombay
after inaugurating a Teraflop class supercomputer facility touted
to be India’s newest and fastest kid on the supercomputing block.
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IPR
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- India
could get 79,000 jobs in legal outsourcing: Study
Saturday, 12 November , 2005
India has huge potential in legal outsourcing, with the number of
jobs in the field increasing to 79,000 by 2015, a study by an American
research firm has said.
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- China,
biggest source of counterfeit products
14 November , 2005
TALK about counterfeit products and one automatically thinks of
a few countries. While India is not lagging behind the rest of the
pack - mostly developing countries - it is China that is head and
shoulder above others in this category.
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- India,
Russia to sign military IPR pact in December
16 November , 2005
India and Russia have finalised a military intellectual property
rights (IPR) agreement which will be signed when Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh holds summit talks with Russian President Vladimir
Putin between December 12 and 13.
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Nanotechnology
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Electronics, Communication and Instrumentation
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- Honeywell
starts manufacturing turbochargers in India
Pune, Nov 15
The shift in the Indian passenger car and SUV markets towards diesel
engines has propelled prospects for turbochargers manufacturers.
The $26 billion Honeywell Group is looking at picking up a significant
share of this market and has started manufacturing new generation
turbochargers at its unit in Hinjewadi, Pune. Tata Motors will be
its first customer in India for these engine boosters.
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- Motorola
to roll out first home-made phone in Dec
Nov, 17
Motorola, the world’s second largest mobile handset maker, announced
that it will roll out its first Made-in-India mobile phone in the
local market by December. However, the US-based telecom giant stopped
a step short of announcing its own greenfield venture. As per the
plan, Motorola will source its low-cost, entry-level GSM handsets
from a global vendor who will manufacture the product locally.
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Energy & Environment
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- India
seeks alliance with US for clean coal technologies
November 16
After its recent pact with the US on civil nuclear energy, India
proposes to enter into an alliance with the US for the adoption
of clean coal technologies in the country.
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- Nuclear
Power: China races ahead of India
November 18
While argumentative India continues to look at the gift horse -
the civilian nuclear deal with the U.S.- in the mouth, Beijing is
racing ahead with its atomic energy plans with American inputs and
leaving Delhi far behind. India started working on nuclear electric
power generation in 1963, more than a decade and a half before China.
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- Fuel
cells to make coal more efficient
November 13
Research organization SRI International is developing a direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC) technology that claims to be a more efficient way to convert coal into electricity.
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IT & Software
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Pharma, Biotech and Health
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- RLL
wins 2 patent claims for clarithromycin
12 November, 2005
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd said that it had won two out of
the three patent claims for Clarithromycin 1000 mg extended release
(ER) drug used in the treatment a wide variety of bacterial respiratory
tract infections including chronic bronchitis and acute maxillary
sinusitis
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- India
to be hub of pharma outsourcing
November 11, 2005
India is poised to become a major venue for outsourcing in chemical
and pharmaceutical manufacturing, a new report by researchers involved
in the first joint conference between Indian and American chemical
engineers has said.
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- Institute
on clinical research to be set up in New Delhi
November 14, 2005
In an bid to put India on the global map of drug research and development,
government today said it will set up a Translational Research Institute
in the national capital to expedite monitoring clinical trials being
carried out in different parts of the country. Read
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