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 …
Microsoft has decided to share one of its most closely guarded trade secrets. But there is a catch. The software giant will let governments and international organisations study its source code for Windows opera-ting systems, authorising them to improve their software security. The serious challenge mounted lately by open source …
manufacturers of air-conditioners (acs) and producers of refrigerant gas are at loggerhead. With the Union government denying the former the licence to import refrigerant gas hydro-chlorofluorocarbon (hcfc-22 or r22), they allege that they are being forced to buy it at higher rates from domestic producers. Gas producers, in turn, contend …
In a swift move, China has clamped down on toxic electronic waste exports from the US. Environmental groups Basel Action Network (Ban) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition of the US and Delhi-based Toxics Link had earlier this year jointly brought out a report stating that as much as 80 per …
cleaner recycling of electronic waste is something the industry has been looking forward to for the last one decade. It might just have got lucky. Considering that in the us alone in 1988 5-7 million tonnes of e-waste was generated and that 50-80 per cent of it was exported to …
The tenet group has set up n-Logue, specifically to provide telecom and Internet services to the small towns and villages. Do you think this makes business sense? Oh yes, it does! Our company
E-WASTE - a byproduct of the US technological revolution - is being sneaked into India, Pakistan and China. This revelation has been made in a report released by five non-governmental organisations (NGOs) spread over four countries. The document titled 'Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia' warns that the processing …
The paper reports the studies on evaluation of energy indices of domestic refrigerators of 165 L capacity in India. The specific energy consumption varies between 3.23 and 4.19 kWh/y/L for single door manual defrost units and between 3.84 and 4.78 kWh/y/L for double door auto defrost units. The major technical …
USA - The US government gives tax credits up to us $4,000 to those who purchase electric vehicles . - By 2003, 10 per cent of the cars in the state of California will be electric vehicles. - So will a fixed percentage of vehicles in the government fleet. - …
while just a few years ago, 540 Megabytes was considered a huge storage for computer hard disks. Now 30-gigabyte drives are standard in most computers. However, this expansion in storage capacity is now reaching a saturation point. Data is stored in a magnetic disk as 1's and 0's. The number …
Electronic giant NEC of Japan has achieved its target of zero waste emissions status for its headquarters, six manufacturing plants and three research and development centres, all of which are located in Japan. The company set this target in 1985 and defines zero emissions to be reuse of at least …
the Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has recently notified a draft Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules 2000, to control hazards associated with backyard smelting and unauthorised repro-cessing of lead acid batteries. The provisions of the draft rules stipulate that battery manufacturers, importers and assemblers can collect one old …
vacuum tubes, the kind one saw in old radio sets and televisions, were the backbone of the electronics industry till the 1960s. However, due to their large sizes, excessive heat generation and lack of integration with other electronic components, they lost the battle to solid state devices like transistors and …
the computer network in the Defence Research and Development Organi-sation's laboratories might lose data generated during the Pokhran nuclear tests; the stock exchanges' online share market may not be able to tell you the status of your shares; or the computerised notice board pasted in airports may say there is …
despite tremendous advances in the field of microelectronics, the material used in almost all electronic devices is still silicon. This is because no other material has the electrical properties of silicon, combined with the ease with which it can be fabricated into useful circuits. It is also true that the …
Radiation exposure NATO's use of depleted uranium weapons in their airborne military action over Yugoslavia has not been ruled out. And if it is true, many people may soon be heading for hospital and medical centres. Exposure to depleted uranium during the Gulf War has been unofficially blamed for the …
this was the message received by hundreds of thousands of e-mail users across the world on Friday, March 26. It had come with the subject "Important message from...' followed by the name of a familiar person, and contained a Microsoft Word document named "list.doc'. As soon as the document was …
it was first done in the 1960s. Then a few disastrously expensive projects in 1980s and that was it: the birth and death of three-dimensional ( 3d ) films happened within just three decades. Of course, 3d dreams still surface occasionally, within television manufacturers, virtual reality enthusiasts and computer game …
Global Positioning System (GPS) devices have dwindled to the size of a wristwatch. Japan's electronic giant Casio has developed a watch weighing just about 148 grammes that displays longitude and latitude anywhere on Earth. The watch is 60 per cent lighter than existing GPS hand-held devices and will even tell …
Busy people will now be able to carry a portable version of their Personal Computer (PC) database in a memory card as small as a credit card. Rex Pro slots into a laptop computer, or connects to a desktop PC through a docking station. The card copies address lists, diary …
