Murthy will also present the inaugural Richard Larkins Oration on the occasion.
The Australian Monash University and Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai will set up the first Indo-Australian Research Institution at the Powai campus.
Select Australian universities will hold interviews to induct students at the Planet Group office, Secunderabad.
Sending your favourite and costly suit to the dry cleaners could soon become an obsolete practice. Researchers have invented a new fabric which can clean by itself. Using nano-technology, the researchers from Monash University in Australia and Hong Kong Polytechnic University have successfully developed the special fabric which can be made into self-cleaning clothes.
An international team, led by Monash University, has pioneered the innovation which is known as optical Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing, or oOFDM.
The scientists are, in fact, working with a material called graphene which may form the basis of the next generation of ultrafast energy storage systems.
According to them, a boom in online trading and a surge in an 'anti-retail movement' could spell the demise of some retail outlets by 2020 unless they revolutionise the way they do business. Moreover, manufacturers are more more preferring to sell directly to the public and consumers opt to bypass stores and deal directly with wholesalers or even each other.
Repeated predictive texting, not radiation, is to be blamed for affecting brains of young people using mobile phones, says a new study.
Scientists have been mystified by the fact that the Himalayan mountain range is still growing, despite the fact that the India tectonic plate has been slamming into the Eurasia plate from the past 50 million years.
Sexual self-image dysfunction was associated with being overweight, obese, living together with partner, not married, married and breastfeeding.
The attackers were from well-known schools with Western curriculum for the children of the well-to-do in the city, not from any of the madrassas that are often termed as breeding grounds for militants.
This number is predicted to increase to 13.5-17.4 million people living with Type 1 diabetes by 2040, the researchers said.
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The Australian Conservation Foundation's Climate Change Program Manager Gavan McFadzean also said athletes need to step up.
'I would put my hand in the ground and have a little listen to what the mountain was doing.' 'Actually, it was still collapsing.' 'And there was a very real possibility that at some stage, without warning, the collapse could continue -- and continue across us, the people who were doing the rescue and also across to the men on the other side, who were being rescued.'
All but two women and four men among the Games' 128 archers agreed to participate, with data retained only in the form of archived TV footage.
'My son used to pray five times a day from a young age. But we never imagined this. There was nothing at home, no books or anything to indicate he was leaning that way, So we had no inkling,' he said.
Formula One was accused of sending out a mixed message on alcohol at the Monaco Grand Prix on Friday by giving extensive publicity to drinks brands while campaigning for road safety.
Attend the Australia Roadshow 2005 for information on further studies in Australia.
'I had to submit my resignation from the BJP after just two weeks because they were very regressive.' 'There was no space for a free thinking individual.'
At the 53rd annual convocation ceremony of the IIT-B, Anand Mahindra urged graduates to focus on imagination.
Being a student means a lot of things, not only grades, says overseas consultant NNS Chandra, in his advice to readers.
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