
India is poised to become a multi-billion dollar manufacturing hub for photo voltaic value chain but the main challenge before the industries would be to reduce costs associated with PV manufacturing and installations,a top solar industry official said here. “Currently,India is manufacturing solar modules/cells and they are primarily being marketed to US Europe.But this equation is likely…

Mr Sushilkumar Shinde,Union Minister of power met Mr Martin Ferguson,Australian Minister for energy,resources and tourism in Canberra.During the course of meeting they discussed about the strategic long time co-operation in energy sector. Mr shinde highlighted India’s commitment towards climate change issues in term of National Solar Mission under which 20,000 MW of capacity through solar…

Windows XP Windows XP support has ended Click on the image to View Larger One of the biggest software company Microsoft decided to end the support for the some of the version of windows operating system. Please look at the below: Support for Windows XP is ending on April 8, 2014. Support for Windows Vista…

The greater threat to computer is a computer virus,a program that causes a computer system to behave in unexpected and undesirable ways.Some signs of a virus include inexplicable loss of free memory,unusually long times for program loading or execution,changes in file or program size,print routines that stop working ,computers”freezing up”‘strange beeps or messages,computer reboot in the middle…

CAD has the following advantage over traditional method of design- (i)Â Computer aided design (CAD) is faster and more accurate results than conventional methods. (ii)Â Developing the design of component and associated drafting is a very easy task with CAD. (iii)Â Manipulation of various dimensions,attributes and distance of drawing elements,is very easy.This make CAD the most useful designing…

A portable room cooler is an electrical appliance used for cooling and ventilating a room of medium size.It is more effective than ordinary electric fans because it performs the added function of blowing out air which circulates through filter pads that contain water.This further cools the air which is then blown outwards. The working action…

Calculator Description A calculator is an electronic device used for performing mathematical calculations.A simple calculator works by depressing keys on a keyboard,whereby it is told to add,subtract,multiply,divide and clear the display.Complex calculators can perform many scientific calculations.It may be mechanical,electromechanical or electronic. The early forms of a calculator were the ‘abacus’ and then the ‘slide…

From 2013, the GATE score will be computed by a new formula. (Click on the above formula to see it in a larger size). This formula is different from the one used earlier. After the declaration of the results, a GATE Scorecard will be issued to all the candidates of a paper whose marks are…

Entrance exam for the M.tech/ M.E. GATE 2013 have been scheduled by the commitee of the IIT institutions. IIT Bombay will organize the GATE exam 2013. The schedule and the criteria details for the exam will be given as below: Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering Organizing Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Dates of Examination…

IEEE Standards Association,a globally recognized standards setting body under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE),has launched the IEEE 1547.4TM guide for design,operation and integration of distributed resource (DR) island systems with electric power systems.The guide is the first in-depth resource providing alternative approaches and best practices for deployment of DR island systems or micro-grids in India. Micro-grids have complex infrastructures and the…