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Disappointing…… 11 January 2008
The 95 th Indian Science Congress was held between 3 and 7 January 2008 at Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The theme of the conference “Knowledge Based Society Using Environmentally Sustainable… more →
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Disappointing…… 11 January 2008
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: The 95 th Indian Science Congress was held between 3 and 7 January 2008 at Vishakapatnam in Andhra P … more →
Army Day...Reforms Required….. 15 January 2008
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: Today is Army Day. It is celebrated every year on 15 January in recognition of an Indian becoming th … more →
Bhaarat Ratnaa for me…… 16 January 2008
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: (more than 350 words) Maananeeya Pradhan Mantri Mahodhay Man Mohan Singh Ji, (Pratilipi: Shrimathi S … more →
Birth Anniversary of a Great Man….. 12 January 2008
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sgopal wrote 1 year ago: He was born this day in 1863 at Calcutta. He inspired Jamshedji Tata to set up the Indian Institute … more →
A Rewarding Week…. 13 January 2008
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: (about 300 words) The last week (6 to 12 January 2008) was one of the most intellectually stimulatin … more →
Building Bridges….. 21 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: Recently somebody forwarded to me pictures of a dozen complicated and neat road bridge clusters from … more →
Students and Satellites…… 20 December 2007
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sgopal wrote 1 year ago: Two groups of students – one in Anna University, Chennai and the other in the Indian Institute of Te … more →
Bitter Medicines… 19 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: Recently the World Health Organisation (WHO) conducted an international conference. Two independent … more →
Can Man know what God thinks?.... 15 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: A couple of months ago, the authorities in the Sri Krishna Temple in Guruvayoor, Kerala decided to a … more →
The Mall and Social Divide… 14 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: The other day I went to one of the many shopping malls in Bangalore along with members of my family. … more →
Ira: What is it?....... 9 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: No, it is not an endangered species. It is rare, but not an animal though. Read on. · Ira is a villa … more →
Obscurantist practices... 11 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I heard that some well-educated, upper middle class, and not-so-old ladies known to me wal … more →
FOSS…. 7 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: A five-day event known as foss.in started in Bangalore on 4 December 2007. I attended the same for t … more →
Babri Masjid demolition..Has it helped? 6 December 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: This day, in 1992, the Babri Masjid (Mosque of Babur), the largest mosque in the state of Uttar Prad … more →
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose... 30 November 2007
sgopal wrote 1 year ago: Today is the birth anniversary of the great Indian scientist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, who was a ph … more →
Doordarshan... 23 November 2007
sgopal wrote 2 years ago: Just the other day, I passed by the Doordarshan Kendra in Bangalore. My memory took me back to the f … more →
World’s fourth…… 22 November 2007
sgopal wrote 2 years ago: On different dates in the past one week, newspapers reported some interesting statistics. The coinci … more →
Asia’ fastest computer…. 21 November 2007
sgopal wrote 2 years ago: Computation Research Laboratories (CRL), a company of the TATA group of India has developed the Asia … more →
India’s rocket power… 20 November 2007
sgopal wrote 2 years ago: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) crossed another milestone with the successful test of … more →
