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| Chennai, May 25 (IANS) Working towards commissioning the first unit of the two 1,000- megawatt Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in August, scientists Friday removed one assembly of the dummy fuel from the reactor vessel, an official said.
"We have removed one assembly out of the 163 d....
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| Chennai, May 24 (IANS) A 12-page illegible safety evaluation report (SER) for the Rs.14,000 crore two 1,000 MW nuclear power reactorsis a practical joke on the people of India, protestors against Kudankulam nuclear project in Tamil Nadu said Thursday.
People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy....
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| Satara (Maharashtra), May 24 (IANS) India's first state-of-the-art seismic research and monitoring centre will come up here at a cost of around Rs.400 crore (Rs.four billion), an official said Thursday.
Laying the foundation stone for the mega-project spread over 124 acres at Hajarmachi, uni....
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| By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, May 22 (IANS) Scientists of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) have found an Indo-Arabic stone anchor off the Kutch coast in Gujarat that offers significant clues to the Indo-Arabic and Indo-Persian trade of the first and second century B.C. It was ....
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| Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) In a rare celestial occurrence, Venus - the second planet from the Sun and the Earth's neighbour - will transit across the solar disc early June 6.
The transits of Venus occur in pairs (within eight years) with more than a century separating each pair, according to an ....
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| New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) The government Thursday said it does not stand for censorship and regulation of free speech and assured Rajya Sabha members that it will evolve a consensus on guidelines on internet content after talking to various stakeholders, including industry representatives.
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| New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Children addicted to social networking sites without understanding their implications are falling victim to grudges which move from cyberspace to the real world, say police, teachers and psychologists.
Their views come in the wake of a Class 10 student Wednesday stab....
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| Hyderabad, May 17 (IANS) Spectacles for the blind, a real-time communication between speech impaired and others and a guide to expecting mothers are some of the projects showcased by the employees of Microsoft at the Microsoft IT Research Centre here Thursday.
Participating in the Garage Sc....
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| New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Had internet been there, the Emergency of 1975 would have been a "fiasco", said Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley Thursday as the upper house of parliament took up a debate on a motion to annul a set of government's rules on internet.
A motion to a....
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| New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) said Monday it will launch a new online course on biodiversity from July.
"The Appreciation Programme on Sustainable Management of Biodiversity (APSMB) aims to recreate and secure linkages between people and nature,"....
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