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06.01.2006 India will invite bids commencing on Friday for more than 300 new FM radio stations, sparking a rush of global broadcasters to enter the country's liberalised radio sector, officials confirmed today.

06.01.2006 Setting the agenda for rural development through technological innovations, President APJ Abdul Kalam today used a satellite to speak with farmers from five states in the country listening to their problems and suggesting solutions while urging scientists to do more for the poor.

06.01.2006 He called his design, "sChOOL Pak": a `cool' back-pack personal computer for school kids — and it has just netted him a cool $50,000 — that's over Rs. 22.5 lakhs — as the winner of the Chairman's Award at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas on Thursday; the Chairman, (is Microsoft's Bill Gates) in whose name the company has instituted jointly with the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), a PC-design contest with four awards for innovative design tailored for the Next Generation Windows operating system-based PC.

05.01.2006 Unlike the pacific tsunami warning system which generates large number of false alarms, the system being developed by Indian scientists would be fool-proof, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday quoting renowned seismologist Harsh K Gupta.

05.01.2006 Chandigarh Police becomes the first police organisation in India to introduce SMS facility at the police station-level. Through this new service residents can get the status of complaint submitted at the public window and passport application status on their cell-phone.

05.01.2006 The department of telecom (DoT) has rejected the
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai's) suggestion to
introduce spectrum trading. DoT secretary JS Sarma told FE that no such proposal was under the department's consideration.

05.01.2006 Missouri's Judicial Branch has been involved in implementation of a statewide case management system for almost ten years. One of the slowest, most costly and most complex parts of bringing every division and every level of court onto one, statewide system is merging the historical data from a variety of old automated systems into the new case management software.