Researchers at Australia''s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne University and Italy''s University of Padua were using laser technology to make products -- including televisions, iPads, mobile phones and Kindles -- more flexible, thinner and cheaper.
Prospective university students looking to study abroad, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, will have the opportunity to meet with admissions directors and alumni of many of the world's top universities.
An internationally respected Australian academic has told a major conference in Switzerland that Australia is in a state of denial on the racially motivated attacks against international students, including Indians, and has failed to deal with the issue. Melbourne University professor Simon Marginson, delivering a keynote address to the World Universities Forum in Davos, said the Australian government was trying to spin itself out of a crisis.
A leading Australian university is offering iPods, laptops and even airfare for recruiting fellow pupils from overseas.
38-year old Richard Harvey, who was studying at the Meridian International School in 2007, said university employees ridiculed him when he requested toilet paper and drinking water be made available on campus.
The five-millimetre-a-side 'GiFi', unveiled at the Melbourne University-based national information and communications technology research centre, can transmit data through a wireless connection at a breakthrough rate of five gigabits per second over distances of up to 10 metres.
A 24-year-old Indian student from Gujarat was attacked by a group of men here, the latest in a spate of racial assaults targeting the community members in Australia.
An international team has carried out the study and found that when HIV mutates to hide from the immune system, it is slightly less able to reproduce and cause harm, a finding that is a step closer to understanding how to develop vaccines against AIDS. According to lead author Liyen Loh of Melbourne University, the study focussed on the interplay between virus and the immune system and how this affected the number of copies of the HIV virus in the body.
Novak Djokovic has invited Britain's Andy Murray to clear-the-air talks.
Justifying action against the JNU and the HU students, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said if slogans are openly raised for terrorists then action is imperative.
'Getting married and becoming a father in the last six months was definitely something that gave me a new energy, something that I never felt before. And right now everything has been going in such a positive direction in my life'
Bikash Mohapatra traces the rise of the Swiss, first man to win multiple Slams in the 'Big Four' era.
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