Tag Archives: Hitech

Hi-tech drones comes as a rescue to control India’s malaria …

By Prathiba Raju and Abhijeet Singh New Delhi: Humanity’s oldest and deadliest vector-borne disease, malaria has continued to be a silent killer. Although there has been continuous impressive gains in reduction of the disease burden in the country, the emerging and re-emerging diseases transmitted by mosquitoes pose a growing threat. …

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2 held with 10 kg heroin, hi-tech drone in Punjab

Chandigarh: The Punjab police on Sunday claimed to have busted a trans-border narcotic smuggling cartel with the arrest of its two kingpins and recovering 10 kg heroin and one sophisticated drone from their possession. The arrested have been identified as Dalbir and Jagdish, residents of Gharinda in Amritsar who were …

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Petrichor review – woozy, hallucinogenic hi-tech dystopia | …

As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickSkin has created an intense physical-theatre two-hander about living as automatons under an all-consuming regime. Our days under lockdown might be relentless but they’re nothing compared with the drudgery of Petrichor. Imagine the soul-crushing visions of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Charlie Chaplin’s Modern …

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Hi-tech thieves using drones to case out farm and rural Nort…

Rural crime officers fear thieves may be using camera-equipped drones to scout out farms in North Wales. Over the past fortnight four different holdings in Denbighshire have been buzzed by drones with white vans seen nearby. Farmers report watching the drones hovering over their properties for lengthy periods. One was …

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