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 …
concerned about the hazards of high-tech trash? Here is a piece of good news. A Swedish company has started marketing wooden computer monitors and keyboards that aim to brighten office life, while cutting down the environmental impact of hi-tech junk. With large number of computers stacking up in landfills worldwide, …
GOOGLE This fortnight saw another twist in the web search company Google's saga of going public with its shareholding. The company decided to stop short of filing a formal registration to sell shares. Behind the decision lay the realisation that Google would be forced to disclose basic financial details of …
function map() { var popurl="image/20040515/49-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Letting eyes see what ears hear, a series of maps represent Paris in a fashion never seen before. The cartography is part of European Union's effort to map a long-overlooked, but oft-overheard form of pollution
Bbc, Earth Files According to an investigation by bbc's Earth Files programme, computer waste is being dumped in developing nations in contravention of the Basel Convention. And the two most popular dump yards are India and China. The Basel convention on the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal …
www.climateprediction.net Anyone with a personal computer can now lend a helping hand to scientists trying to figure out the complex problem of climate change. The site offers a downloadable climate prediction model that can be run on any computer, and the result used to improve forecasts about climate change. Predictions …
Microsoft Corporation is in the soup, or should we say sushi, again. This time a controversy embroiling the software giant has erupted in Japan. It is suspected of having violated the country's anti-monopoly laws. The Japanese Fair Trade Commission raided the Tokyo offices of the Redmond (us)-based company as part …
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/ When you're a foetus, hormonal messages determine every step in your development. From your brain to your toes, these messages fix you for life. ourstolenfuture.org, is a warning that synthetic chemicals worldwide are disrupting these messages. Our stolen future, a book published in March 1996, asks: what will be …
In February, 100-odd people got together at the quaint little town of Baramati. All had a common goal: to exchange ideas on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for development. Tucked away in the heart of south Maharashtra's sugar belt, Baramati has, for four years now, played host …
www.moveon.org MoveOn.org is a virtual advocacy platform that offers people the opportunity to put pressure on government on matters that might be cultural, political and environmental. Started six years ago, its website claims the " MoveOn community' now numbers 2.3 million. MoveOn brings ordinary American citizens together to form electronic …
www.indusscitech.net This website created by M A Pai, a us-based non-resident Indian scientist, may lack original content, but it is still a one-stop source for online resources on Indian science and technology. Almost all the content carried in its 13 channels
www.foodsafetyindia.nic.in Log on to this recently launched website of Union ministry of health and family welfare, government of India. It will show you what a grand understanding the government has of food safety. The crux of this colourfully pictorial website is that food safety is in
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 …
www.plosbiology.org The San Francisco-based nonprofit organisation Public Library of Science (PLoS) has gate-crashed into the exclusive world of scientific publishing, by coming out with an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology. Its objective is free and unrestricted access to latest scientific knowledge to anyone interested in science. A notable feature …
If you thought of electromagnetism as something that only served to light up your home and run a thousand gadgets, think again. Our reality, be it natural, artificial or virtual, is completely electromagnetised. This reality is the theme of Electronetwork.org
• Anyone with a personal computer can now take part in an online experiment (Climateprediction.net) to generate a probable forecast of the climate of the 21st century. A collaborative effort of Britain's meteorological department, universities and other institutions, it would be the world's biggest climate science project ever. About two …
http://www.ileia.org The visitors to this site need to, at the very outset, acquaint themselves with the two confusing, and, as one soon discovers, related acronyms
http://www.inequality.org "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.' This website, maintained by a network of concerned journalists, writers and researchers headquartered in New York, starts off with a quote by Louis …
http://www.ngowatch.org Ngowatch.org is a site in the making. But there is nothing incomplete about its intentions. It will track down non-governmental organisations (NGOs): look into their agenda/s, provide information on their source/s of funding and find out how accountable they are. The NGO movement today has many facets to it. …
