KOCHI: Last Friday, education minister C Raveendranath met the rep resentatives of all 36 teachers’ unions. The minister spoke for an hour, detailing new concepts and initiatives planned to strengthen the education sector. The next four hours were taken up by the unions who spoke about their workload, job security ... Read More »
Wooden carts and horses in the front yard, mooing cows in the barn, walls with hand painted frescoes and food being cooked on a stove fired by cow dung cakes — this is not a set for a period drama, but a residential school for boys in the heart of ... Read More »
The chief financial officers (CFOs) at Britain’s biggest companies are more worried than their European counterparts about how Brexit will affect their firms’ bottom lines, according to a new survey by Deloitte. 65% of British CFOs say Brexit negotiations will be “bad for business,” compared with just 37% of European ... Read More »
The British government will be “unashamedly pro-business” as it seeks to forge the country’s future role outside the European Union, but business must also act responsibly, Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday. In a speech at Mansion House in the City of London financial district, May will say ... Read More »
The emergence of the idea of the blockchain that drove the creation of Bitcoin and other cyber currencies is one of those signal events in the history of computing. Just as Doug Englebart invented the mouse in 1968 and proposed a vision for user experience that has yet to be ... Read More »
The small, Syracuse, New York-based company K-II Enterprises makes a number of handheld electronic devices—including the Dog Dazer (a supposedly safe, humane device that deters aggressive dogs with high-pitched radio signals)—but it is best known for the Safe Range EMF. The size of a television remote, the Safe Range EMF ... Read More »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said technology will very soon play an important role in developing agricultural pattern in the country. He was addressing the inaugural session of an international conference on sugarcane value chain in Pune. “We are talking about sugar; but let’s think about bamboo also and ... Read More »
HOUSTON: You could soon power wearable devices using just your body heat, without any external power supply or battery replacement. Researchers have developed a new concept of electrical energy storage Thermally ChargeableSolid-state Supercapacitor. “This is the first time that it has been discovered that a solid-state polymer electrolyte can produce ... Read More »
PUNE: The 32nd national convention of electrical engineers and national seminar on “sustainable Development in Indian Power sector for the next decade” was inaugurated by vice-chancellor of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University V G Gaikar at the Institution of Engineers (India), Pune local centre. Speaking on the occasion, Gaikar said, ... Read More »
It’s been a bad week for a lot of Americans. How about an interesting distraction? The video above, from the American Museum of Natural History, shows essentially all of human history in just six minutes. It shows humanity spreading across the world over a few hundred thousand years — even ... Read More »
To further intensify the crackdown on black money, Assocham has suggested the Centre to impress upon states to “drastically” lower stamp duty on residential and commercial property deals to dissuade people from undervaluing purchases. The industry body said that the biggest beneficiary of the move would be buyers of residential ... Read More »
ON the Monday after Diwali, the last transaction a realtor oversaw in Mumbai was the re-sale of a two-bedroom home, with a carpet spread of 700 square feet. The apartment, in a 30-year-old high-rise, went for Rs 3.80 crore, roughly the market price in the south-central Mumbai belt. The price ... Read More »
