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Punjab to tame wayward telecom towers

Punjab to tame wayward telecom towers

Chandigarh, March 10 (IANS) Towering over any type of buildings and spaces without any control will no longer be easy for cellular companies in Punjab with the state government deciding to bring a mechanism to regulate the unabated installation of telecom towers.

The Punjab Information Technology (IT) Department has been directed

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US, India high-technology meet Monday

US, India high-technology meet Monday

Washington, March 10 (IANS) Top US and Indian business executives will meet here Monday to address critical issues affecting US-India High Technology Cooperation in areas like defence/strategic trade, civil nuclear cooperation, biotechnology, nano-technology and civil aviation.

The private sector business interactions hosted by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) are expected to

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Growing space debris poses threat to spacecrafts

Growing space debris poses threat to spacecrafts

Thiruvananthapuram, March 9 (IANS) About 100 space debris experts who are taking part in the three-day meet of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination (IADC) Committee here Tuesday expressed concern in the increase in the space debris which is posing a serious threat to spacecrafts.

Inaugurating the meeting Tuesday B.N. Suresh, director

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Russia ready to give uranium for global n-fuel bank

Russia ready to give uranium for global n-fuel bank

Paris, March 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia will provide by the end of 2010 the first batch of low-enriched uranium for an international nuclear fuel reserve bank under control of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, a senior official said.

'I believe that the first part of these reserves could be formed by

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Delhi gets India’s first remote controlled street lights

Delhi gets India’s first remote controlled street lights

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) In a bid to conserve energy, the capital's main civic agency Tuesday launched the country's first remote-controlled street lights that can be switched on and off using an internet-enabled main server located in the heart of the city.

The first phase of this street light upgradation

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‘Avatar’ producer lauds Reliance MediaWorks (Superseeding earlier story)

‘Avatar’ producer lauds Reliance MediaWorks (Superseeding earlier story)

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Hollywood filmmaker Jon Landau, who co-produced 3D sci-fi 'Avatar', has praised Lowry Digital, a subsidiary of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd, for enhancing live-action scenes in the film.

'Lowry Digital's innovative digital image processing helped us create the wholly immersive world that Jim (director James Cameron also co-producer

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‘Avatar’ producer lauds Reliance MediaWorks for its Oscar

‘Avatar’ producer lauds Reliance MediaWorks for its Oscar

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Jon Landau, co-producer of 3-D sci-fi epic 'Avatar' that won three Oscars including one for visual effects, has praised Lowry Digital, a subsidiary of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd, for enhancing live-action scenes in the film for the golden gong.

'Lowry Digital's innovative digital image processing helped us

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Cyber attacks worry Indian firms more than terror: study

Cyber attacks worry Indian firms more than terror: study

Bangalore, March 9 (IANS) Indian enterprises are more wary of cyber attacks to their IT infrastructure than perceived threats from terrorism and natural disasters, a study by global security solutions provider Symantec said Tuesday.

A study 'On the State of Enterprise Security' conducted in January revealed that Indian enterprises suffered an

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Large Hadron Collider performing well

Large Hadron Collider performing well

Moscow, March 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A detailed check of the world's most powerful atom smasher -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- has shown that it is 'performing well,' the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has said on its website.

The atom smasher, running at a low energy,

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Move into Iran, Sudan would be an accomplishment: Google

Move into Iran, Sudan would be an accomplishment: Google

Geneva, March 9 (DPA) An executive at internet giant Google said Tuesday that Washington's latest move to encourage service providers to expand their work into Iran, Cuba and Sudan was a 'great accomplishment'.

'Hopefully it will help... activities all over the world take a small step in what is certainly a

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