Observer News Service - June 20, 2016
INDORE: The Indian Institute of Management, Indore, has launched a five-year Integrated Program in Management aimed at students who have passed out of class XII / Higher Secondary or equivalent from various schools in India. It is definitely worth a try even for those who have just joined their Bachelor’s course elsewhere. It is for the […]
Observer News Service - January 22, 2016
With nearly all of the rest of the world on the brink of being free of polio, the disease’s persistence in Pakistan has long challenged health experts both inside and outside the country. Last year, the 51 cases of wild poliovirus reported here represented the bulk of all 70 cases reported throughout the world. Even […]
Observer News Service - December 17, 2015
Understanding if a jar of low fat mayonnaise or processed cheese is actually healthy enough is now only a mobile phone scan away. Sydney-based The George Institute for Global Health has launched a nutrition application in India for this, called FoodSwitch. The mobile application, funded in part through an Australia-India Council grant, allows consumers to […]
Observer News Service - December 4, 2015
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday he and his wife would receive no tax benefit from setting up their new philanthropic endeavor as a limited liability company and hinted at the types of efforts it would support. In a post on his Facebook page, he wrote that “just like everyone else, we […]
Observer News Service - December 3, 2015
New York: A new technology known as LiFi could one day offer internet speeds one hundred times faster than the WiFi we use today. Scientists have achieved speeds in the lab of up to 224GB per second, which is the equivalent of downloading 18 movies in the blink of an eye. LiFi, also known as […]
Observer News Service - December 3, 2015
New Delhi Amid Chennai’s battle against waterlogged roads and drenched homes, Google has extended its support to the city and has created the Crisis Response tool called “South India Flooding.” The tool provides users with access to emergency helpline numbers; crowdsourced list of places and people offering shelter; maps of crowdsourced flooded streets and other […]