General
- New technology to convert waste into petroleum
A small-time Mumbai-based company claimed to have developed a technology to convert waste into petroleum fuels in a cost-effective manner and is set to commercialise it, already bagging an overseas customer. .......
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- Food safety cells for farmers boon
BHUBANESWAR: Citybased Institute of Quality and Environment Management System (IQEMS) has come up with a food safety cell, aiming to further strengthen the Food Safety Act of 2006........
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- Australian agriculture technology in Madhya Pradesh
Australian agriculture technique will be introduced in the State to develop overall agriculture sector of the State. In this regard an agreement between the State of Madhya Pradesh and Australia has come into affect following the visit of Minister for Agriculture Welfare,.......
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- Avesthagen develops male sterile technology for hybrid seed
Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Avesthagen), one of India’s leading biotechnology companies based in Bangalore, today announced that the Australian Patent Office has granted a patent to the company on "A process for generating cytoplasmic male sterile line in rice and other crops by RNA editing" This patent will revolutionize the agricultural industry and bring succor to the sector.......
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- Technique to help 'friendly bacteria' discovered
There is currently a great deal of interest in the health-associated properties of probiotics, also known as 'beneficial' or 'friendly' bacteria, and prebiotics, the food needed for the growth of probiotic when inside our bodies. University of Leicester scientists have discovered a natural fruit-based extract that dramatically improves the growth and probiotic qualities of 'friendly' bacteria such as the lactic acid bacteria, which are found in most widely-advertised health supplement drinks, according to Eurekalert, the news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ......
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- Twenty more Special Economic Zones cleared
The government cleared 20 new Special Economic Zones (SEZs), including two information technology and IT-enabled service based SEZ of Tata Consultancy Services and Cognizant Technology. It also gave in-principle approval to seven SEZs. .......
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- BSA Industries develops fuel efficient engine technology
BS Agricultural Industries, an ISO 9001 : 2000 certified company based in Agra, recently announced the development of a completely new engine technology, which it claims, besides being compliant with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) standards, also heavily economises on fuel consumption........
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- Is it very difficult to keep to a sensible balanced diet for healthy body?
With so much promoting these days, guess every one knows that a good diet is very important for good health by now. A healthy and varied diet would help you to maintain a healthy body weight, improve your general well being and help reduce the risk of diseases such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.......
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- To measure poverty, you may have to go chak
The Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agriculture Movement) in Bangladesh experiments with an alternative to micro-credit. "Very poor female-headed households are given an animal to raise until it has a calf. The woman can use the milk, either for her own consumption or to sell on the market, and keep the animal's offspring as her own to raise. The original animal is returned, and then passed on to another poor family in her village." .......
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- Ag Companies Churn Out New Products
Weed scientists have lamented for years that the herbicide pipeline is down tot a trickle or less. But that's because of a dramatic shift in agriculture, precipitated by Roundup Ready soybeans in the late '90s and later Roundup Ready corn. Conservation tillage also played a role, spurred on by residue requirements on highly erodible land........
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Innovation & IPR
Technology
- New cleaning technology
Using a new scheme that connects New Zealand businesses with global experts has helped an Auckland company crack a complex technical problem and opened the way for it to develop a faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly cleaning system for food manufacturing plants........
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Agriculture
- The crisis of Indian agriculture
The post-Independence history of Indian agriculture can be broadly grouped into four periods. Before describing them, I should mention that during the colonial era famines were frequent and famine commissions were abundant. The growth rate in food production during the 1900-1947 period was hardly 0.1 per cent. Most of the important institutional developments in agriculture emanated from the recommendations of famine commissions. The great Bengal Famine of 1942-43 provided the backdrop to India’s Independence.......
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- Problems of processing
Fragmentation is as much a striking feature of the Indian agri-produce processing industry as it is of landholding, crop production and markets. The domestic agro-processing industry comprises a large number of small players across the country. Often, the processing units do not enjoy economies of scale........
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Biotechnology
- Israeli company develops small, modular biomass flash-pyrolysis plants
Israeli biomass energy start-up Genova Ltd is building a first pilot plant to demonstrate its innovative power generation concept. The process relies on the gasification of biomass through flash-pyrolysis, with waste heat used to process and dry the feedstock. Interestingly, the design consists of small, modular units with a capacity ranging from 0.5 to 5 megawatts.........
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Electronics & Communication
Design
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Govt to set up auto design institute
NEW DELHI: The government will set up a national design institute in participation with private players specifically for the automobile industry as part of efforts to give a push to the sector.....
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Energy
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Mascoma to build first switchgrass cellulosic ethanol plant
Mascoma Corporation, a developer of advanced low-carbon energy biotechnology, recently announced that it intends to establish America's first operating facility producing cellulosic ethanol utilizing switchgrass as feedstock. The project represents one of the largest commitments of capital yet made in support of the cellulosic biofuels industry. Some new details about the plan have become available.......
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South Africa Investing in Ethanol Producer
The South African Energy Development Corporation (EDC), a division of the state-owned Central Energy Fund, is in talks to buy 30% of maize-to-fuel company Ethanol Africa in a deal potentially worth R180 million (US$27.5 million).......
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Egg shells might become an energy resource
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 26 (UPI) - U.S. scientists have created a patented technology that turns discarded chicken eggs hells into an alternative energy resource.....
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Pharma, Biotech & Health
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Home Remedies for Children's Constipation
The treatment for constipation will depend upon the age of the child whether he is a small baby or a child, four or five years of age. When a baby is on breast-feeding, constipation is usually the result of wrong feeding on the part of the mother, and it must be corrected. The baby should be kept on water and orage juice for a day, and small enema of warm water given......
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Nanotechnology
- Leading Lights of UK Nanotech Depart for Trade Mission to India
The first trade mission since the since the birth of the India-UK JETCO Nanotechnology Working Group will commence in New Delhi on September 18TH. Organised in partnership by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the mission represents industry and academia working at the cutting edge of UK nanotechnology......
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- India Releases Incentive Program Guidelines to Attract Nanotechnology Manufacturing
The government of India's Ministry of Communications & Information Technology released the "Special Incentive Package Scheme" (SIPS) (pdf download, 260 KB) aimed at encouraging investments for setting up semiconductor fabrication facilities and other micro and nanotechnology manufacturing industries in India. .....
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- Mazda Develops Catalyst to Slash Precious Metal Use
Japan's Mazda Motor Corp (7261.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it has developed the world's first catalyst for cars that employs nanotechnology to create a material structure that slashes platinum and palladium use by 70 to 90 percent. The reduction results in no change in the performance of the automotive catalyst, which uses platinum, rhodium and palladium to trigger a chemical reaction with polluting nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons to clean tailpipe emissions......
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- Nanotechnology to capture power plant emissions
About one third of the European CO2 emissions is coming from fossil fired power plants. Every year Europe blows more then 1 gigaton CO2 into the atmosphere, contributing to increasing temperatures around the globe......
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- PET Scanning Tracks Injected Quantum Dots
A wide variety of experiments have shown that nanoscale quantum dots have the potential to detect early-stage cancer and even monitor the progress of anticancer therapies..........
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- Oxford Instruments Sells Five of their New OpAL
Oxford Instruments, the high-technology tools and systems company, is pleased to announce the launch and first customer orders of its new OpAL atomic layer deposition (ALD) system. Following on from Oxford Instruments' successful launch of its FlexAL ALD process tool in 2006, the OpAL system offers a compact open-loading system to complement the load-locked FlexAL...........
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