Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
New York is a step closer to adopting one of the toughest electronics recycling laws in the nation, despite strong objections from manufacturers and mayor Michael R Bloomberg. The city council approved a Bill last week that would impose a $100 fine on anyone who throws an old computer, printer …
IBM sued over pollution Residents and business groups in New York sued IBM Corporation on January 3 alleging that decades of pollution from the company's former microelectronics plant in the village of Endicott, Broome county, has made them sick. The lawsuit says IBM, which built computers, circuit boards, integrated circuits …
People have always been proficient at making trash. Future archaeologists will note that at the tail end of the 20th century, a new, noxious kind of clutter exploded across the landscape: the digital detritus that has come to be called e-waste. More than 40 years ago, Gordon Moore, co-founder of …
One doesn't usually associate Microsoft with a campaign for fair trade practices. But pushed into a corner by Google, the software biggie has teamed with pr and marketing agency Burson-Marsteller on a campaign that aims to "begin important industry discussions around competition'. Analysts say the real purpose of the campaign …
europe's second highest court has come down heavily on software giant Microsoft. In a landmark judgment on September 17, eu's Court of First Instance backed a 2004 decision to fine Microsoft and asked the software giant to change its Windows operating system for compatibility with rival systems. In 2004, the …
microsoft has accused Linux of patent violations. On may 14, 2007, Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft, told Fortune magazine that Linux, the open source operating system and other related softwares, have violated 235 of its patents. Microsoft gave a breakdown: 42 within the Linux kernel
Nuchem is a company in Delhi that develops and sells water/effluent treatment technologies, chemicals and laminated panels. Sudev Barar, its owner, has adopted a Linux-based open-source computing environment. He tells Sopan Joshi why it makes sense for industry to adopt open-source software On adoption of computers I joined the family …
>> Computers, the hub of modern business and lifestyle, are considered to be the vanguard of clean technology that has freed us from the use of paper and unnecessary transportation. By default, the industry that produces computer is also perceived to be clean. However, a un study reveals that each …
Mumbai is India's leading generator of e-waste, says the latest study by Toxics Link, an NGO dealing with toxic issues in India. The study Mumbai: Choking on e-waste, released on February 23, says Mumbai generates 19,000 tonnes of waste from electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) per year, and Delhi produces …
the Union department of information and technology (doit) recently proposed to provide up to 50 per cent subsidy to e-waste recycling units. But only units registered with the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) will be eligible for the subsidy, said doit. Environmentalists are dismayed at the move. "Recycling …
thrown out: Tamil actress Radhika has been expelled from the primary membership of AIADMK, the main opposition party in Tamil Nadu "for acting against the interests of the party'. She appeared in a controversial advertisement which gives a clean chit to colas. The Coke advertisement appeared in the beginning of …
Using microbes in nano-electronics A virus that infects the cowpea plant has been found useful in making tiny electronic devices and biosensors. When ferrocene, an organo-metallic chemical, was deposited on the cowpea mosaic virus, it turned into a capacitor of nano-scale dimensions, according to researchers at the John Innes Centre …
If you use a cell phone, take a call on its health effects. Despite cell phone manufacturers sticking to the line that there are no confirmed adverse effects of the contrivance, studies doubting its innocuousness continue to appear with a grim regularity. Not only that; its innocence is being lawfully …
a recently published study provides another reason to slow the growth of high-tech trash. As per its findings, manufacturing a desktop computer uses fossil fuels and chemicals up to 10 times the weight of the device. Manufacturing a car or a refrigerator, on the other hand, uses up to twice …
Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers The Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (ieee), an international professional society with 3.6 lakh members, has landed itself in a controversy by cutting off most of its services to members from countries against whom the us has slapped trade and economic embargoes. More …
gm on the platter: The US government has recently issued a notice to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for failing to comply with safety laws when it allowed offsprings of animals used in a genetic experiment to be sold as food. The pigs had genes from different species; the …
Exactly what is the new millenium all about? Some call it the time of the information technology (it) revolution. Some say it is globalisation turning mature. But, as one looks for ways to name the present, there pops up a phrase with a murky neologism in it: the new millenium …
Yet again a handful of manufacturers of diesel engines for generator sets have succeeded in getting more time to comply with emission standards. The norms were notified by the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) in 2002, after it had dithered on the issue for a long time. While …
manufacturers of diesel engines for generator sets are a divided lot today. Battlelines have been drawn between those who have complied with the emission standards set by the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef), and those who want the July 1, 2003, deadline for their implementation extended. The guidelines …
