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Although the BMC has made it mandatory for contractors to use 'carbon core' technology to cover potholes, they seem to pay no heed. As a result, potholes in the city have increased by more than 1,500 over the last fortnight.

Carbon core is a cold mixture of asphalt imported from South Africa, which takes less tim read more »
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Students of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) will be barred from interning in foreign companies, from the beginning of the academic year 2008-09.

The decision came in the wake of a large percentage of students opting for internships in foreign firms and universities.

Third year students have to undergo a compulsory eight-week internship as part of their curriculum. However, read more »
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Mumbai will be the second city, after Bangalore, in the country to install ‘smart’ street lights fitted with dimming technology to reduce the electricity consumption.
Smart light project has yielded good results in Bangalore and it is expected to save around 20 per cent of power in Mumbai. read more »
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Come December, streetlights along Haji Ali, Worli and Prabhadevi sea fronts will switch to energy-saving mode.

As part of an exhaustive energy audit undertaken by the civic body for its water supply and sewerage departments, a consultant also studied the possibility of saving on street-lights.

Accordingly, fixtures operating on a dimming technology have been selected. These will gradually read more »
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Japanese information technology company NEC Corporation, IT services and solutions company CMC Limited and City Corporation Limited signed an agreement on Friday to develop a fully digital city at Amanora township in pune.

The agreement provides for supply of technology backbone, including high capacity servers and other communication devices by the NEC and integration and delivery solution by read more »
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After years of complaining about being unable to manoeuvre their vehicles through the city’s narrow roads, the Mumbai Fire Brigade has found a solution — motorbikes.

The two-wheelers, fitted with a Compressed Air Form (CAF) unit, a German technology, can fight vehicle fires and oil spills.

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A unique science exhibition on wheels came to town on Friday and, on the day of its inauguration itself, saw hordes of enthusiastic visitors who didn’t mind awaiting their turn in long queues to make it into the spellbinding 16 coaches of science and technology.

The Science Express, an Indo-German collaborative effort, is on at platform no. 13 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and will be op read more »
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Fed up of potholes that crop up time and again during the monsoons inspite of being repeatedly filled up, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will use a new technology this monsoon to ensure smoother roads for the citizens.

“This year, we will try to give better roads to citizens in the monsoon. All the roads cannot be included in the first year as we are in the process of examining t read more »
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The world’s smallest wearable cardiac monitor, a toffee-sized silicon locket, is almost ready at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). While the tiny computer that can store a week’s electrocardiogram (ECG) data awaits a manufacturer, it is already in demand. IIT read more »
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Panaji, Jan 6: The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh today said that new digital technology should be used to preserve and spread Marathi culture and tradition for the sake of new generation, and the Jagatik Marathi Academy can help the Maharashtra government in achieving this task. read more »
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For lakhs of aspirants who don't make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the new year has brought in cheer—this tech school is opening its classrooms beginning Wednesday for engineering colleges across the country.

As reported by TOI on December 8, IIT-Bombay will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.

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Using simple household items, an Indian scientist, Anand Karve, director of the Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI), has developed a low-cost and efficient method of making biogas from regular kitchen waste.

It can match the amount of energy created in 30 days by existing systems, in just 2 days !

It took Karve almost three years to develop the compact biogas plant sys read more »
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For lakhs of aspirants who don’t make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), here’s something to cheer about. After earlier putting the IIT open courseware online, IIT-Bombay is going one step further and opening its classrooms to the world.

Starting January 2008 it will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
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Rohit Nalawade CEO of tech startup Consumer Vision incubated in IIT Mumbai are all set up to equip these kirana stores with RFID technology. With this piece of software and hardware, kirana stores can improve users experience and serve them better. Will this create more problems for retail chains like reliance to establish, may be, but it would definately make the "Kirana wala" genre a history. read more »
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