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 …
easy rabies cure: Tobacco plants have been genetically modified to produce proteins used to combat the rabies virus. Till now, the only way to fight the virus was to use antibodies derived from either horses or humans; but they are difficult to get. Researchers from the Thomas Jefferson University, USA, …
http://www.indiastat.com West Bengal produces India's highest number of freshwater fish. That's just one of the savoury facts that can be found on this website, a virtual knowledge bank of India-specific socio-economic facts and figures, managed by Datanet India Private Limited. From the minutest details of India's administrative set-up to statistics …
Online: http://wii.gov.in "My favourite actress is Kareena and my sister's name is Mini.' But why would the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) want to tell us what 16-year-old Upasna Sharma likes and dislikes? Upasna attended a Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources at the WII between 8 May and 4 June. …
www.changemakers.net Is information invariably bound to perception? Let us try and answer it in the context of the worldwide conference on water currently online at this website. The first thing a global online discussion (on till May 31, 2003; so you can still join in) would try and do is …
The investigation into the Columbia shuttle disaster in February has thrown up a startling detail. Inaccurate computer data misled flight engineers into thinking that the shuttle could return safely to Earth, reveals the probe team. Scientists had concluded during the flight that a minor incident during lift-off
The information technology (IT) revolution has finally reached Afghanistan. The country's first batch of IT students recently graduated from Kabul University with industry-standard certificates in computer networking skills. Among the 17 graduates, six are women, heralding new hope that educational discrimination would finally end in Afghanistan. The UN-supervised, Cisco Systems-funded …
http://www.yaw.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/index.html This web site is the brainchild of UK scientists, who have hit upon an effective method to counter the controversy surrounding the names of the nation's 50,000 known species. It is estimated that about 300,000 scientific names are used to distinguish them. To resolve this multiple name muddle, scientists …
want to know how your organisation really works? Study the flow of internal e-mails, say scientists from the us-based technology firm Hewlett-Packard. The researchers have developed a way to use e-mail exchanges to build a map of the structure of an organisation. The map shows the teams in which people …
http://www.gpgNet.net GpgNet provides a forum for researchers and policymakers to exchange information and discuss issues relating to the emerging concept of global public goods (GPG). What is that? you may ask. GPG can be broadly described as resources or services that have a fairly universal impact: on a large number …
http://www.wotr.org The concept of water harvesting is catching like wild fire across the length and breadth of the nation. For those interested in knowing more about the concept and how to implement it, this is the right site. Watershed Organisation Trust (wotr) based in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, helps rural communities and …
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 …
http://www.saukaryam.org International accolades are pouring in for Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (vmc) cyber initiative, Project Saukaryam (convenience). Awards received include the United Nations Development Programme (undp) cyber city award 2002, to add to the prestigious Stockholm Challenge International Award (public service) in 2001 to name just two. Designed by Sanjay Jaju, …
http://www.cmhealth.org The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was launched in January 2000 by WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland. The CMH has been analysing the impact of health on development issues and producing reports and studies on health-related interventions and their influence on economic growth and …
http://129.109.73.75/SDAP/ The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston has developed a website containing a searchable database of allergy-causing proteins and bioinformatics tools for performing structural studies on allergens and the characterisation of their epitopes - protein parts that trigger immune reactions. The Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins (SDAP) could …
microchips may be small, but their impact on our environment is massive. This was discovered during a study conducted by scientists from the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. The study shows that the environmental footprint of microchips is far more substantial than their small physical size would suggest. The …
When you buy a bicycle, you can repair it. You can dismantle it and reassemble it. You can modify it to suit your requirements. You can learn from it to design a better bicycle. All this is perfectly legal. It is the way in which societies have moved ahead. There …
scientists in Britain and the us recently shook hands. No big deal, one might think, but the men in question were 4,828 kilometres apart, connected only by the internet. In a technological first, two scientists
