Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
Move to attract technology to mining sector. Snapshot Mines Ministry proposes new mineral concession that may allow prospecting in an area of 5000 sq km A Bill on the new Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act is likely to be placed in Parliament in the Monsoon Session Vishwanath Kulkarni …
A scathing CAG audit report on Kerala's Akshaya, the country's premier e-gov initiative, shows why billions being spent on e-governance would be wasted if the bureaucracy does not learn quickly.
Kalpana Jain & Sharmistha Mukherjee / New Delhi May 13, 2010, 1:19 IST The development of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), with an investment of over $110 billion over the next ten years, could bolster India
'Open source' is a familiar concept to many web users, providing free, well-supported software across the internet. But could the same principles be used to rapidly disseminate low-carbon technologies around the world?
This paper reviews existing microeconomic empirical literature on gender differences in use, access, and adoption of nonland agricultural inputs in developing countries. This review focuses on four key areas: technological resources, natural resources, human resources, and social and political capital. In general, there has been more empirical research on inorganic …
Coal will be the biggest single source of electricity for decades to come. Yet the EU is doing far too little to encourage the take-up of carbon capture and storage, a technology which could make coal a low-carbon fuel. This failure threatens not only Europe
This document contains the speech of Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, delivered at 16th SAARC Summit at Thimphu, Bhutan on 28th April 2010. He told in this speech that even after creation of institutions for regional cooperation, yet not empowered them to be more proactive. At home, regional …
SRIRAM RAGHAVAN By evoking the Food Security Bill the central Government has finally managed to focus its attention on resolving one of the most formidable problems afflicting our nation. Chronic hunger, starvation and malnutrition together pose a grievous threat to the future of our country and all past attempts to …
The Central government is introducing a new software to make tiger monitoring more accurate, even as the first phase of India's comprehensive tiger census showed some
Maulana Talib Hussein does not find it easy to squat. Yet five times a day, the 64-year-old must get into that position to perform wudu , Arabic for the Islamic norm of cleaning. “Wudu is one of the prescribed acts of cleansing Muslims must undertake before offering prayers,” he said. …
This report highlights the important role of the federal government in reducing the vulnerability and strengthening the resiliency of economy and natural resources in the face of these changes. In addition to managing a significant amount of land and infrastructure that will be affected by climate change, the federal government …
If it were not for the quality of the mutton, Brijesh Kumar, a customer of five years, would not have endured the smell of ammonia that hung around Mohammed Haroon’s shop. The six-square-metre concrete platform from which Haroon plies trade is two metres from a public urinal in Paharganj near …
The current state of rural banking in the country is poor. A recent report, by the National Sample Survey Organization, revealed that 51.4 per cent of the 89.3 million total farmer households in the country had no access to credit; 27 per cent of the households were indebted to formal …
Technology plays a crucial role in making banking services available to the rural poor. And banks are exploring options. To begin with, the Reserve Bank of India (rbi) has permitted banks to use intermediaries such as cooperatives or microfinance institutions to provide services in places banks cannot reach. These intermediaries, …
20 Under-35 Honoured For Their Innovations IT TOOK him two years to perfect algorithms that allow rich content to be streamed on low bandwidth. But just twelve weeks into the commercial launch of the product, vMukti, the Ahmedabad-based start-up cofounded by Hardik Sanghvi has raked in eight enterprise customers.
Nabard has sponsored a book with 101 success stories of farmers who dared to be different Surinder Sud / New Delhi March 09, 2010, 0:34 IST Indian farmers are known to be second to none when it comes to adoption of new technology. But, what is not so well-appreciated is …
