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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Eight persons were also injured in the mishap as a tanker rammed into
India has gotten so much closer. Direct flights to Delhi now make all the difference. The trip from New York seems about the same length as one to London or Paris.
My Continental flight was literally the first out of the gate. It leaves late at night, with time for some
Lucknow : It seems there is no end to power woes in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow and Agra are the only two cities to get 24-hour power supply, at least on paper. The scenario is getting bad to worse across the state. In the last five days, the generation from the
LUCKNOW: Two new software technology parks would soon be set up in Agra and Varanasi.
Besides the software technology parks already functioning with the help of Union government in Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow and Allahabad, Agra and Varanasi would also have such parks, a release quoting the Managing Director of UP
New Delhi : In a major drug haul, four-and-a-half kg of heroin worth Rs 4.5 crore in the international market was seized and two persons were arrested in this connection in a South Delhi area, Narcotics Control Bureau officials said today.
The duo, identified as Padamvir Singh and Sarfaroz Khan, were
NEW DELHI: The 16th century city of Agra may have three world heritage sites, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri, besides numerous other monuments, but it is not a fit case for being declared a world heritage city, the government informed the Supreme Court on Monday.
Responding to a
New Delhi : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has blamed then home minister L K Advani for the failure of his summit with then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in July 2001.
I personally suspect it was Advani sahib. That is my guess because he was quite hawkish in those days,
Lucknow : The recent hike in fuel prices provoked statewide protests in several parts of Uttar Pradesh Tuesday with the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) criticising the central governments move.
The SP demonstrators detained trains and put up roadblocks in several towns.
Except for Meerut and a few other places, the demonstrations
Those who are yet to visit Agra to get a glimpse of one of the worlds most famous mausoleums, have a chance to catch up with a giant replica of the Taj Mahal put up in the city by an Ahmedabad-based group. The 30-ft replica of Taj has been erected
Lucknow : Former national champion S Nasir Ali of Kanpur surged into lead when he defeated Shailendra Bajpai, a rated player of Allahabad, in the sixth round encounter with black pieces on the third board in the 43rd UP State Chess Championship being held at PRD Compound, Lucknow. Nasir has