National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted a survey on Household Social Consumption: Education as part of 75th round of National Sample Survey (NSS). Prior to this, surveys on the same subject were carried out during 64th round (July 2007- June 2008) and 71st round …
a new open source software to identify and manage the major weed species of rice-wheat cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic plains was launched recently. It targets farmers, extension workers, students, researchers and grass roots organisations. The project is called the Open source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural areas software …
www.povertyandconservation.info promoting good practice This site aims to promote good environment practices by linking conservation and poverty. It is a project led by the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG). The UK-based group is an initiative coordinated by the International Institute for Environment and Development and is funded by the …
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/BiodiversityGuide BIODIVERSITY AS A KEYWORD The International Finance Commission, the private sector arm of the World Bank, is on a reformation drive. Recently it issued a fresh set of regulations for companies borrowing from it (see
Nandadevi.org & mountainshperds.com riding high Lata is an address of protest and conflict. It was the village in the higher alpine pasture areas of Chamoli, Uttaranchal, where the first sparks of the Chipko movement were fired. It's the home of the bhutiyas, who lost their right to shepherding, to trade …
it was waiting to happen. After all one can trade shares, buy airplane tickets and conduct a variety of commerce via the Internet. So, the Maharashtra government's and that of several other state governments' move to computerise the state's agricultural records doesn't really evoke much surprise. What, however, appears ludicrous …
bangalore has grown exponentialy in the past three decades. The growth, fuelled by it and bpo industries has brought in foreign exchange, an influx of skilled and high-priced labour, growth in hospitality, catering, rent-a-car and housing industries. This has been touted all over as an Indian success story. This success …
smelling cancer: Research conducted in the US presents astonishing evidence that man's best friend, the dog, may help in early detection of cancer. Led by Michael McCulloch of the Pine Street Foundation in California, and Tadeusz Jezierski of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, the …
the odds of building a computer based on atomic bytes have increased with two independent research groups in Europe and the us successfully pushing the boundaries of human control over the microscopic world. In one of the two experiments, bizarre by normal standards, scientists with the us National Institute of …
while the us and virtually the rest of the world slugged it out over the control of the Internet, www.renewamerica.com, a resolutely neo-conservative website, carried an article entitled
A recent study conducted by Basel Action Network (ban), a us -based lobby group, found that around 500 containers packed with old computers, televisions and mobile phones were arriving every month in Lagos, Nigeria. These electronics come for repair and re-use but an estimated 75 per cent of it gets …
Popular search engine Google's free mapping programme, Google Earth, has been criticised by various governments, including India, which feel that the satellite images with resolution as high as one metre could pose a security threat. India's apprehensions were first voiced by President A P J Abdul Kalam, who reportedly said …
