Friday, 30 Oct 2009
World Science Forum in Budapest : UNESCO
Ten years after the first World Conference on Science (Budapest, 1999), the fourth World Science Forum will take place in Budapest (Hungary) from 5 to 7 November. The meeting, whose theme this year is “Knowledge and Future”, coincides with World Science Day for Peace and Development, celebrated annually on 10 November.
Date: 30 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 1887/Rating:NAN
Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009
UNESCO joins hands with TripAdvisor for World Heritage partnership
TripAdvisor, the world's largest on-line community of travellers, and UNESCO launched a partnership on Thursday to mobilize travellers' support to preserve natural and cultural sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Date: 27 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: Travel, / Views: 3537/Rating:NAN / Comments:
Saturday, 24 Oct 2009
US president Obama Visits MIT and hails it for the Energy Research
Nobel Laureate and US President Barack Obama, in a historic visit to the MIT campus, praised the Institute's commitment to energy research and issued a strong call for the nation to lead the world in the development of new, efficient and clean energy technologies.
Date: 24 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: Universities Links / Views: 1315/Rating:NAN
Thursday, 22 Oct 2009
The Large Hadron Collider - What and How it is?
You Might have heard of "The Large Hadron Collider" that appeared in Newspapers few months back. At that time there were protests that the experiment could damagae the whole Universe , and assurances from the Scientists that nothing like that will happen. Finally the experiment was stopped due to some technical glitches. So just a round in to CERN and how LHC is doing ..
Date: 22 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 1436/Rating:5
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009
Ahmedabad Gets India's First BRTS
Ahmedabad BRTS is a highly ambitious rapid transport system developed by Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB), recognizing that no single mode would cater to the mobility needs of the city and that ‘Bus’ forms the most critical segment of the public transport system in the Ahmedabad city. GIDB has thereby entrusted the system design task to CEPT University. A part of first corridor connecting Pirana to R.T.O. was put open to public on October 14th 2009 by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Date: 21 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: India / Views: 5820/Rating:4.1
Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009
Severe Shortage of Water in Northern Iraq
In a war thorn nation, where people live between bombs,militants,military, there are other problems too.. A UNESCO study finds that Water shortage is fueling displacement of people in northern Iraq(Also Referred as Southern Kurdistan) ..
Date: 20 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: Environment / Views: 3949/Rating:5
Monday, 19 Oct 2009
Zidane Invites People to Take Action Against Poverty
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Millennium Campaign launched a new advertisement featuring football legend Zinédine Zidane encouraging governments and citizens to reach the 8 Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Date: 19 Oct 2009 , Author: / Category: Environment / Views: 2850/Rating:NAN