AGRA : Recently Abishek Kumarasubramanian, a student of IIT-Madras, became an instant star amongst fellow techies– he was selected for a one-year internship with Bill Gates and will work directly with his technical assistants team at Microsofts Redmond headquarters after winning the Microsoft Code4Bill contest.
Now, four Indian students from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology are inches away from reaching similar heights.
They are the finalists for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006 with an innovation called Sonique that promises to literally let the blind see.
Sonique enables the blind/visually impaired to use ultrasonic sensor technology to sense the environment around them and calculate the distance to objects present.
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The mausoleum of Akbars spiritual guru Sheikh Salim Chisti is getting a face-lift for the first time. The ceiling,
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For journalists who switched loyalty, its a quantum jump in salaries and perks, but
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A qualified architect and town planner from Bristol University, Peck came to India a
Three persons were killed and nine injured, six of them seriously, when members of two communities indulged in firing and pelting stones, prompting the authorities to impose indefinite curfew in three police station areas in this communally sensitive city on Thursday.
State paramilitary forces along with a large number