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on Sep 03, 2010
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UK Tourism chiefs issue foreign etiquette advice ahead of London 2012 Olympics
Daily telegraph reported that "Tourism chiefs have drawn up a list of cultural differences to give Britons a crash course in not offending foreigners when they visit London for the 2012 games."
The gems of wisdom are designed vy VisitBritain, the tourism quango, to help hoteliers, restaurateurs and taxi drivers understand the needs of foreign customers to maximise business and make the country appear more welcoming.
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on Aug 31, 2010
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on Aug 17, 2010
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Meet 18-year-old Diwakar Vaish. This youngster apart from others his age is his undeniable talent in the still-nascent field of robotics in India. He has created four humanoid robots (designed, created and programmed by him) that possess much of the physical functionality a human body does, and one -- Robot Isotope -- that can even do the Bhangra.
An admitted techno-freak, Diwakar spent much of his school years participating in tech competitions, and winning most. But what gave him the boost he needed was winning at Quanta, an international competition for robotics held in Lucknow in 2009, for which he created a race boat that beat out competition from 40 countries.
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on Aug 17, 2010
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50 per cent of all Indians are under the age of 25. That's 500 million youngsters raring to take India to the top of the world. Young Indians have achieved professional and personal excellence on a level unseen before and it's only the beginning.
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on Aug 13, 2010
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He is a billionaire’s boy with serious ambition. Charming, articulate and handsome, with round brown eyes that mask a degree of calculation, he is already seen as likely successor to his father Lakshmi at the steel giant they created two years ago by merging their family-controlled firm with European rival Arcelor.
For others in the steel industry, he has been a surprise. Travelling side-by-side with his father for the past decade, he has kept his head down, worked the deals, brushed off the accusations of nepotism and helped drive the expansion that has left the Mittals’ rivals in their wake.That combined entity, Arcelor Mittal, in which the Mittal family owns a 45% stake, is now the biggest steel group in the world. And Aditya, trained at Wharton Business School and Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, sits as finance director, head of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and management-board member responsible for flat-steel products, Americas. He is only 32.
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on Aug 05, 2010
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Aakanksha Sarda stood 18th in the country at the IIT JEE examinations.
The Mumbai student is back in the spotlight again, this time for winning a gold at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO, which was held in Croatia.
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on Aug 05, 2010
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Aakanksha Sarda stood 18th in the country at the IIT JEE examinations.
Posted by: Prem Kumar
on Jul 30, 2010
India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal was on Friday selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,the country's highest sports honour,following her outstanding achievements on the badminton court.The national sports awards (Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dhyan Chand) selection committee, headed by P T Usha, met in New Delhi and decided to bestow the Khel Ratna on Saina after considering her brilliant performances over the last year.
The world number two Indian is in red-hot form this year. She reached the semi-finals of the All England Super Series in March before winning three successive titles in June.
Posted by: Prem Kumar
on Jul 24, 2010
Information technology is an important indicator to gauge a country's economic growth and India is no exception. Therefore, organisations, financial bodies and media houses conduct surveys time and again to arrive at revenue structure of reputed IT companies of India.
The top 20 hardware and software companies had average revenues of $2 billion in 2009-10, according to the latest survey conducted byDataquest, CyberMedia group journal.
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on Jun 27, 2010
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A team led by an Indian-origin professor has devised a method of using mobile phones for conducting eye tests, a technique it hopes will be useful in places lacking hi-tech eye equipment.
The device, called NETRA, which means eye in Hindi, has been designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab associate professor Ramesh Raskar, visiting professor Manuel Oliveira, student Vitor Pamplona and postdoctoral research associate Ankit Mohan.
The two-minute eye test can be carried out using a small plastic device clipped in front of a cellphone's screen.
The patient looks into a small lens, presses the phone's arrow keys until sets of parallel green and red lines just overlap. The process is repeated eight times with the lines at different angles for each eye.
The entire process takes less than two minutes after which the software loaded in the phone provides prescription data.
"Our device has the potential to make routine refractive eye exams simpler and cheaper, and, therefore, more accessible to millions of people in developing countries," Oliveira said in a statement.
The technology takes advantage of the huge improvements over the last few years in the resolution of digital displays and their widespread proliferation on cellphones.
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