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16.11.2005 UAE nationals will be issued electronic passports beginning early next year, Minister of Interior Lieutenant-General Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan has announced .

16.11.2005 The State Government of Tamil Nadu has decided to impart 50 members of self-help groups in Tiruchi district training in Information Technology through Computer Science departments of engineering colleges affiliated to the Anna University.

16.11.2005 E-governance has been successfully implemented in a gram panchayat near Bangalore, said former faculty of Institute of Socio-Economic Change (ISEC) B.S. Bhargava at the State-level Political Science Teachers' Conference in Moodbidri, Karnataka.

16.11.2005 World leaders, technology leaders and campaigners are in Tunisia for a UN summit intended to help poorer nations benefit from the digital revolution.

16.11.2005 An Indo-Norwegian project on environmental management strategy for coastal aquaculture practices, which successfully tested the aeration technology introduced by Norwegian company, HOBAS Tropical Aquaculture, has raised hopes among various stakeholders that the technology can help resolve the problem of water quality faced by Indian aquaculture.

14.11.2005 Anticipating a manifold increase in the number of visitors to the National Zoological Park (NZP) during the India International Trade Fair (IITF), an automatic ticketing machine will be installed at the zoo entrance.

14.11.2005 New figures from the European Unioin's official statistics body showed that in 2004 on average 85 per cent of European student used the internet compared with only one in eight retired people.