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Usage pattern, not duration, important An average home user would download 0.5GB of data a month considering an activity factor of two hours and burst factor of 0.1. Home user would pay around Rs 1000 a month if billing is based on usage pattern. Safe transport, disposal of nuclear waste IN RECENT experiments by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gary Harms and his team are using a new lab-built reactor to provide benchmarks showing that spent nuclear fuel — uranium that has been used as fuel at a nuclear power plant ... Presenting a bird's eye-view THERE ARE a number of ancient tall monuments all over the world which attract hordes of tourists eager to climb to the top and savour the panoramic, bird's eye-view of the surrounding countryside. Unfortunately, in the case of many such edifices, ... `Give Golden rice a chance' IN THE article `Can Golden rice eradicate vitamin A deficiency' (The Hindu, December 5, 2002) Drs. R. V. Bhat and S. Vasanthi were pessimistic about the potential of Golden Rice in mitigating the problem of vitamin A deficiency. I would ... Why Web-based file swapping is unstoppable A study by four Microsoft engineers concludes that efforts to curb the growth of file sharing via Internet are futile. Clearing Net traffic jams INTERNET TRAFFIC jams may become history if European Space Agency (ESA) succeeds in developing new technology to see nearby Earth-sized planets. Why? In looking for new ways to detect planets ESA is thinking that, instead of mirrors and lenses in ... Monkey business in kangaroo courts SONYA GHOSH, in her rejoinder dated fifth December to D. Balasubramanian's piece of November 21 in The Hindu, Science and Technology Supplement, has argued convincingly for the funding and study of science to be transparent. But this ... 
Saga of atomic energy in IndiaFISSION OF an uranium atom on bombardment by neutrons was reported in 1939 by Otto Hahn,Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann. Niels Bohr brought out the significance of this and its awesome possibilities to the scientists in the U. S. Leo Szilard ... Music catches computer bugs MAKING MUSIC out of computer code is helping programmers to catch the bugs that can cause software to go awry. Computer code is often prone to errors that are difficult to spot. In a long program, made perhaps of hundreds or thousands of lines of ...
Sir J. C. Ghosh was the first Director of IIT, Kharagpur, and helped build up this institute which recently celebrated its golden jubilee.
Low-cost feed to boost productivity of milch cowsDAIRY FARMERS can make their own high quality cattle feed using locally available raw material, and such low-cost feed can improve the productivity of the milch cows. "The farm-made feed will also increase the profitability of the dairy units ...
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