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 …
Confederation of Indian Industry’s Young Indians group, popularly known as Yi, has been gaining momentum in Tricity. With a national presence that includes 32 chapters, about 1,600 members and 8,300 students, the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Young Indians group, popularly known as Yi, has been slowly and steadily gaining momentum …
Lead Content In CRT Sets Putting Waste Handlers At Risk As LCDs and LEDs are fast replacing the old-fashioned cathode ray tube monitors, the capital is faced with a huge health risk. Both the informal e-waste recyclers working at the CRT recycling hubs of Yamuna Vihar, Seelampur and Mustafabad and …
In order to deal with the increasing risk of health hazards posed by electronic waste (e-waste) generated everyday in the city, the Delhi government has decided to set up 11 new centres for the disposal of such material. Presently, there are 12 centres registered for recycling of e-waste through scientific …
KOCHI: Rajeswari Venkiteswaran, a 63-year-old homemaker from Palarivattom, is shifting her house and is busy packing her belongings. But, she is confused about how to dispose her broken keyboards, mouse, used batteries and other damaged electronic equipment. The apartment complex where she resides prohibits the entry of small-time scrap dealers …
Unsafe Handling Exposes Workers To Fumes, Acids Bangalore: Not too far from the Sarjapur IT hub in East Bangalore, Nabi Hasan, 5, plays with a dysfunctional calculator, whose circuit board hangs by the last wire. Nabi is unaware of the hazards of his new toy. His makeshift colony bordering KR …
Apple Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc have made significant progress in adopting renewable energy sources to power their Web services, the environmental group Greenpeace said in a report on Wednesday. But energy-hungry data centers operated by some of the Internet industry's top companies remain overly reliant on carbon-emitting coal …
Hyderabad: Lack of adequate recycling capacity for electronic waste is costing the country several thousands crore of rupees each year. About 10 states, including Andhra Pradesh, annually generate about 70 per cent of the estimated eight lakh metric tonne of e-waste in the country, but only about three lakh metric …
Technology giant Microsoft has bought the first carbon credits generated under a rainforest conservation project in Madagascar, reports Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which organized and backed the initiative. The deal, which WCS says represents the first sale of government-owned REDD+ credits in Africa, will help finance conservation efforts in Makira …
Order of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Microsoft Corporation & Anr. Vs. Kurapati Venkata Jagdeesh Babu & Anr. dated 03/02/2014 regarding infringement and dilution of trademarks, trade name, passing off, rendition of accounts of profit, delivery up, damages etc. against the defendants. Original Source: http://lobis.nic.in/dhc/MAN/judgement/03-02-2014/MAN03022014S21632010.pdf
Press Release Company Moves Up Four Places Since Last Year’s Rankings SAN DIEGO — January 27, 2014 — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced at the annual SOLIDWORKS World …
An average American generated 29.8kg of hitech trash in 2012 — six times higher than China’s per capita figure of 5.4kg. The UN’s first e-waste world map released on Saturday says that almost 48.9 million metric tons of used electrical and electronic products was produced last year — an average …
Information technology company HP has announced that it will cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20% by 2020 for its first-tier manufacturing and product transportation supply chain partners. Developed in consultation with the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Climate Savers Program, the GHG emissions-reduction goal will be driven through a variety …
India is among the countries generating lowest quantity of e-waste from personal computers, the Rajya Sabha was informed. According to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report titled 'Recycling - From E-waste to Resources', India with generation of less than 0.15 kg/capita/year of e-waste is amongst the countries with lowest …
TVs, washing machines and computers may be a part of most city households, but Chennai has not figured out a structured way to collect discarded household electronic equipment – collectively called e-waste — which needs to be disposed of properly. E-waste contains toxins that can leech out over several years …
E-waste generated from the end-of-life electrical and electronic goods including computers and electronic gadgets in India is growing at 30 per cent annually, according to BK Soni, chief executive officer of Ecoreco, an e-waste recycling company based in Mumbai. He also said though 95 per cent of the e-waste was …
Kurukshetra district has become the first district in the country to launch the Village Integrated Monitoring Software (VIMS) developed by the District Informatics Centre. This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Mandip Singh Brar while launching the software here today. Brar said it would bring transparency and prevent delays in rural …
Apple Inc now runs its largest U.S. data center entirely on renewable energy, with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels and fuel cells, the company's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, said on Thursday. The data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which supports Internet storage and Apple's …
Last year, two inspectors from California’s hazardous waste agency were visiting an electronics recycling company near Fresno for a routine review of paperwork when they came across a warehouse the size of a football field, packed with tens of thousands of old computer monitors and televisions. ON THE TRAIL Members …
Half (49.9 per cent) of the houses in Punjab are good condition living quarters, revealed the data of the Census Directorate which was released today. The data was released as a part of the two-day Census data dissemination workshop being organised by the Punjab Department of Census Operations. It says …
Increased use of information and communication technology (ICT) such as video-conferencing and smart building management could cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 16.5% by 2020, a study by Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) has said. The study, SMARTer2020, which management consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) did for GeSI, …
