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  • Coal India public offer gets Crisil's top grading

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    2010-09-03 15:00:00
  • CANDELA aims to promote the use of eco-friendly candles for lighting

    Eco Factor: Lighting system makes use of soy-based candles. Industrial designer Simon Enever is aiming to encourage a younger, broader audience to use candles by providing a system that includes a push button lighter and extinguisher in a retro/modern package. The system, dubbed CANDELA, the device provides a safe and enclosed flame from a soy-based candle. The candle can be ignited using a piezoelectric lighter, which activates when the On button is pressed. Pressing the Of button rotates the sniffer to instantly extinguish the flame. Replacing the candle is just as clean as the product itself. Once burnt-out, the top of the lamp screws off a flap covering the candle, which can then be replaced. Designer: Simon Enever
    2010-09-03 14:10:44
  • V100 Mod Box prefab living module requires no maintenance

    Eco Factor: LEED Platinum certified prefab modules made from green materials. The V100 Mod Box has everything in it to be termed as the next-generation prefabricated living module. The 1000-cubic-foot structure is made with green materials and includes state-of-the-art energy saving appliances. To top it all, the Mod Box requires no maintenance of any kind. The structure can be assembled by anyone, without any tools or previous knowledge. Despite having a tiny footprint, each of the boxes carries two rooms, which can either be a kitchen and a living room, or a bathroom and a bedroom. Amenities inside include walnut cabinets, induction cook top, refrigeration and water saving sinks and showers. The box can be used for larger applications, such as hotels and multifamily projects. The boxes can also be configured in anyway and connected to each other without any nails, screws and no paint at all. The low-maintenance structure can be built anywhere in the world and with a LEED Platinum certification, it ensures that youre living in a green way. Via: Jetson Green
    2010-09-03 14:09:44
  • Taliban facing financial crisis, says US

    Noting that the Taliban has been driven to desperation around Marjah in southern Afghanistan, a top US general stationed there has said that the terrorist outfit is facing an acute financial crisis. "We have intelligence that indicates to us that he Taliban has got a financial crisis on his hands," US Marine Corps Major General Richard Mills said in a video-briefing from the province to the Pentagon press room. The targeting of the Taliban's opium "treasury" and various steps to undermine the terrorist organisation's opium profits has led to shortage of funds, he said. As a result, Mills said, based in sensitive intelligence, he believes that local insurgency in the Helmand province has less than one-half of what they had last year in operating funds. "He the Taliban has a cash-flow problem," Mills said, adding that the Taliban does not have the money needed to buy the weapons needed in order to continue conflicts. The insurgency in the region, he said has been reduced from the use of rather expensive Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs to simple bullets, which are cheaper and easier to get. "It's difficult for us to judge specifically how much money he has lost. We believe that the local insurgency here within the province has less than one-half of what they had last year in operating funds. We based that on some sensitive intelligence that we're able to work with and some things we've studied," the general said.
    2010-09-03 14:12:36
  • Top psychiatrist struck off for bedding 'vulnerable' patients

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    2010-09-03 14:15:23
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    2010-09-03 14:13:23
  • Data dilema: Privacy or personalisation

    Ian Hardy discovers how top researchers and companies are using today's devices and data to make the world a more interesting place
    2010-09-03 13:42:22
  • Paper review

    The headline stories from Friday's newspapers
    2010-09-03 13:37:21
  • Serbia Upsets Argentina to Win Group A at Worlds

    KAYSERI, Turkey AP -- Aleksandar Rasic made four free throws in the last 11 seconds Thursday to help Serbia upset top-ranked Argentina 84-82 and win Group A at the basketball world championship.
    2010-09-03 12:30:18
  • Wozniacki Rolls to a Double Bagel at US Open

    NEW YORK AP -- Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki has defeated Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan 6-0, 6-0 to advance to the third round of the U.S. Open.
    2010-09-03 12:27:17
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