Business Standard reported that National Aluminium Company has resumed bauxite excavation at its Panchpatmali (North-Central block) mines nearly a month after it shut down operation at the site following expiry of lease deed on November 16. ...
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The Government of India has a scheme namely; Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) to cater to skilled manpower needs of Textile and related segments through skill development training programmes. The scheme envisages participation of ...
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After last night's presidential debate, the possible fate of Big Bird is now known. But the rival candidates gave no insight into the possible fate of exascale systems, the next generation of supercomputers. In the 90-minute debate ...
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The probability of natural gas arriving from the Tamar field in May 2013 is very high but if technical problems force disruption to supplies Israel will be worse off than in the past year, the chairman of Israel Electric Corp. said Tuesday. ...
The generic use of the term "app store" is not false advertising, and a federal court in California should grant partial summary judgment for Amazon.com on Apple's false advertising claim, the Internet retailer said in a filing on ...
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The U.S. is trying to erect a national regime of secrecy and obfuscation where any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or for espionage, and the ...
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California has signed a new bill that will bring across self-driving (driverless) cars in the state. California Governor Jerry Brown said that the state is looking at science-fiction becoming tomorrow's reality. "Anyone who gets inside ...
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Thanks to advances in computing power and storm surge modeling systems, Louisiana officials bracing for Hurricane Isaac's arrival last month had more detailed data about the storm's potential impact than they had seven years earlier when ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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The photo sharing service has announced it will now keep the same advertising section in its terms of service it had in 2010. The announcement comes in response to the backlash the company has received when it made changes which would ...
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Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
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The Association of American Publishers and Google have reached a settlement to end seven years of litigation over the company's book-scanning project. The agreement settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google in October ...
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The National Rifle Association(NRA)today proposed placing armed guards at every U.S.school to safeguard against another mass shooting like the one that took place in a Connecticut elementary school last week. "The only thing that stops a ...
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U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years. Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to ...
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Running a successful private business or organization usually requires proper level of information security combined with good management. In 2004, Lars Baerentzen founded the company called Siscon. It was a response to the need for a ...
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