Women, business and the law 2024
Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling conditions that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. To present a more complete picture
Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling conditions that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. To present a more complete picture
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators, and the electric power industry are struggling to come to grips with the impact of a surprise court decision last month that dismantled a major air-pollution regulation.
This publication lists and briefly details the regulatory instruments comprising laws/acts/decrees/regulations/rules related to biosafety of products of biotechnology for agriculture and food existing in 39 countries of Asia and the Pacific.
Mobile phone industry thwarts radiation guidelines India has adopted the limits on electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and base stations set by the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (icnirp), but still not adopted guidelines for regulation. According to an official in the Department of Telecommunications, the delay is because the telecom industry
Objections to CZM notificationFinalization of the Coastal Management Zone (cmz) Notification 2008 may be delayed, with states, ngos, activists and fish workers
with early Lok Sabha polls seeming inevitable, West Bengal
Tower Power density is power per unit area. ICNIRP guidelines set density limits for occupational exposure and the public. For the public using GSM mobiles the limit has been kept at 4.5 W/sq m for 900 MHz and 9 W/sq m for 1,800 MHz. For CDMA phones it is 4W/sq m. Occupational exposure limits are five times the public limits. Mobiles Strength of the mobile signal determines the
Mobile phones, like radios, rely on radio frequencies to communicate. They operate at 800, 900 and 1,800 MHz, which are also referred to as microwaves. In the electromagnetic spectrum they fall between radiowaves and infrared rays. Mobile phones
The Uttar Pradesh government is now mulling over a bill to check groundwater overuse The Uttar Pradesh government is hard at investigating widespread land subsidence in several districts during the second week of June this year. According to the Geological Survey of India (gsi), Lucknow, cracks appeared in districts Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jalaun, Etawah, Lucknow and Kanpurdehat (see map: Caving
The government is considering legislation to check the sale of spurious and substandard seed to farmers. The farm authorities are facing problems in regulating the supply of seed as the existing law is inadequate and full of loopholes. The Centre had introduced a Bill to replace it four years ago but it had not been passed till date.
Nanotechnology can be risky, but no one is regulating its use Thanks to nanotechnology, that allows grinding particles to atomic levels, you now have face creams that spread so smoothly on your skin that only a transparent sheen is visible, no layers. While that seamless make-up is desirable, cosmetics using such finely ground particles, called nanoparticles, might not be as harmless as they