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Pipe screams

Thefamous i9th century pipe organ at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has gone hi-tech. The French ministry of culture has spent US $2.2 million to digitise the organ. Now, a system

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Logging for growth

THE Swedes, known to have a scalpedearth policy for a long time, have now come up with a ecologically sound way of logging which is also profitable. Earlier, the woodcutters used to bare almost

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Protecting hands

An educational charity aims to light up the life of Black schoolchildren by imparting them technical knowledge

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Solar dreams

The inability to produce cheap and efficient photovoltaic cefls that convert solar energy into electricity has, till now, hamstrung solar power generation, Scientists have

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Towards greater targets

THE Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) based in New Delhi, is setting its sights higher. Wanting to increase the country's present share of the global agricultural trade from 0.5 per

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All for nothing

THE controversy over irradiated food may finally die a subdued death. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay, has decreed that the opposition of the Bombay west suburban branch of

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Back to square one

THE poacher-turned-saridalwood smuggler Veerappan, operating in the forests of Karnataka, who has managed to evade all efforts to nab him seems to have gained an upper hand once again. The

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Braving the cyclones

CYCLONE-PRONE areas are likely to reap the benefits of a wind tunnel devised By the structural Engineering Research Centre(SERC), a unit of the Council of Industrial Research (CSIR) based in

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HI TECH COURTS

With contputerisation invading nearly all segments, can the courts be far behind? Obviously not. The Bombay High Court trying its hand at modernisation has got itself an

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DOWN AND OUT

Much to the dismay of the owners of 5 industrial estates located in Naroda, Odhav and Narol areas in Gujarat, their writ petition, seeking permission to restart production was

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