Latest visual computing technology displayed at Hyderabad meet

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister of Denmark, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, will arrive here on Friday on a daylong working visit to India to speed up negotiations on a climate deal ahead of a key summit to be held in Copenhagen between December 7 and 18. Rasmussen will meet with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and the UN's top climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who is chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

September 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter took off for Hyderabad from Kurnool Thursday with the body of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others killed in a chopper crash a day earlier.

August 14th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A two-day kite festival began in Kashmir in which designer kites of infinite variety have been displayed. The kite festival has been staged annually since 2004 by the state's Department of Tourism.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and US are expected to sign an "end-use monitoring" agreement to ease the sale of sophisticated US arms to New Delhi. The signing will be held here this evening when visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Tata Motors on Tuesday rolled out the first commercial consignment of Nano, regarded as the World's cheapest car to be showcased at Hyderabad on Tuesday. "The first consignment has come to Hyderabad.

July 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Rs.200-crore book and music retailer Landmark plans to open five to six new stores in various Indian cities this fiscal on an investment of Rs.30 crore. Announcing the launch of its first store in Hyderabad Tuesday, Landmark chief operating officer Himanshu Chakrawarti said the company planned to expand operations by opening more stores in Mumbai and Chennai.

June 27th, 2009 HYDERABAD - A ceremonial Passing out parade was held today at Air Force Academy, Dindigul, near Hyderabad, where 173 cadets passed out from the premier defence academy as flying officers. The Chief of the Army staff, General Deepak Kapoor reviewed the parade and handed over the wings to the graduates who completed training as pilot officers.

May 27th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Almost 300 varieties of mouth watering mangoes have been put on display at the three-day Mango Festival in Hyderabad, which commenced on Tuesday. The curtain-raiser to this festival dedicated to the 'King of Fruits' witnessed hundreds of visitors.

April 1st, 2009 JAIPUR - Hordes of people were enthralled by a unique puppetry show in Jaipur. Many new faces of Indian puppets can be seen in this grand show named 'Putal Yatra'.

March 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Video games involving high levels of action, as in shooting games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to latest research. The ability to discern subtle differences in shades of gray has long been thought to be an attribute of the human visual system that cannot be improved.

March 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Mohammed Safiullah, an enthusiastic collector of the rare Nizam photographs in Andhra Pradesh's Hyderabad, is the proud owner of the photographs of the seven Nizams who ruled the state for two centuries till Indian independence in 1947. If 42-year-old historian Safiullah is to be believed, Mir Mohammad Ali Khan was the first Indian ruler to be photographed.

March 6th, 2009 TORONTO - Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon will visit India from March 13 to open his country's new trade office in Kolkata. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had announced the opening of two new trade offices in India - Hyderabad and Kolkata - last year at the first annual gala of the Canada-India Foundation.

February 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team led by an Indian-American scientist has developed a superfast microchip that is seven times faster, but uses 30 times less energy than the best that technology has to offer today. The technology, dubbed PCMOS (probabilistic complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), was invented by Krishna Palem, professor of Rice University and director, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE), Singapore.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will have one of the most modernised meteorological departments in the world by 2014, a central minister said here Thursday. Speaking at the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) 134th Foundation Day, Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said: 'The central government has set in motion the process to make IMD one of the most modernised departments in the world and this could be achieved by 2014.' The IMD has taken up new initiatives for massive modernization and upgradation of equipment, computing facilities, technology, services and human resource development.

January 1st, 2009 SHILLONG - Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is set to formally inaugurate the state-of-the-art PARAM Sheersh, a supercomputing facility for bio-informatics and computational biology, at the Northeastern Hill University (NEHU) in Meghalaya Sunday.