Order of the High Court of Gujarat in the matter of Kandhal Sarmanbhai Jadeja Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 05/02/2025. The petitioner, Kandhal Sarmanbhai Jadeja is a sitting member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) elected from 84 Kutiyana – Ranavav constituency of District Porbandar. Upon having come to …
The annual report on climate change and carbon emission performance of the world's largest 500 companies released by Carbon Disclosure Project at Climate Week in New York reveals that these companies account for 11% of global emissions. In the 10 years since the launch of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), …
The relevance of population-based cancer registries for planning and implementing cancer control programmes cannot be overemphasized. There are some urban registries in India but very few rural registries despite India being predominantly rural. There are several obstacles to setting up a rural registry including lack of cancer awareness in the …
In recent times, critics have questioned the Internet's utility. The net Luddities range from those who berate it for being an emporium of pornography to those who question the worldwide web's all pervasive influence on modern life. Nicholas Carr is among those who raise significant questions while criticising the Internet. …
ALMOST all civilisations hold insects as an important element within their cultures. Scarab beetles were central religious artifacts within Egyptian culture. The Chinese viewed cicadas as a symbol of birth or immortality, the San of the Kalahari believe the praying mantis represents creation and patience, and the Greeks also created …
Misleading and inaccurate claims published by an Australian anti-vaccination campaign group pose a risk to public health, a government watchdog has ruled. The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), the health watchdog for the state of New South Wales, based in Sydney, issued the warning yesterday over information presented on the …
It took two two-and-a-half-metre bamboo poles and a small transmitter worth Rs 50 to start Radio FM Mansoorpur in Bihar’s Vaishali district. The radio station, started in 2002 by Raghav Mahato, a radio mechanic, shut four years later because he did not have a licence. Mahato, now in his late …
In recent times, the social networking site, Facebook, has been dogged by allegations of privacy violations. David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect does not take issues with these accusations. It is at its best in describing the genesis of the site. For most part the book is a celebratory account. In …
OVER the next six months, 22 information commissioners, including 11 state chief information commissioners (SCICs), would retire. The impending mass vacancy has turned the spotlight on the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). It turns out the department has been filling these posts without any policy guideline. Documents accessed by …
Is CLIMATEGATE finally over? It ought to be, with the publication of the third UK report into the emails leaked from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Incredibly, none looked at the quality of the science itself. (Editorial)
An 18th century library in Aurangabad that shut down in 1970 has thrown its doors open to the public. Once reputed to be one of the biggest libraries in Asia, it had more than 100,000 books and manuscripts in the 1950s. It is situated adjacent to another historic monument, a …
'RTI on Wheels' is a simple concept that offers advice on RTI use where it matters most: outside government offices. Governments should emulate this Ahmedabad NGO.
By digitising 9,000 files of the Information Commission in three months with no extra budget, Shailesh Gandhi proves a point: it's not governments that improve governance.
It isn't enough to explain the facts of climate change very, very clearly. Building public trust requires researchers to change their practices. (Editorial)
The National Census kicked off on April 1, with a difference. This time the census has gone beyond gathering demographic and economic information; it is collecting data on ownership of mobile phones, computers, internet connection, TV sets, cars and radios. The census team will then go a step further and …
1500 AD The Spanish explorer Joao de Barros wrote about Chinese merchants stamping children’s palm prints and footprints on paper with ink to distinguish one youngster from another.JULY 1858 William Herschel, a British civil servant in Hooghly district, obtained the palm impression of one Rajyadhar Konai as part of a …
Apedestrian injured by a motorist in the Californian city of Northbridge has filed a lawsuit claiming Google Inc supplied unsafe dir ections. Lauren Rosenberg filed the suit on May 28 seeking more than US $100,000 in the District Court in Utah. Rosenberg used her phone in January to download directions …
So cycling is your choice of sport or hobby? And you happen to be in India where it is seen more as poor man’s transport? Don’t despair. You are part of a community of thousands of bicycle enthusiasts alive and pedalling. India’s first social networking site for cyclists brings them …
The census, or the collection of citizen data, has been a fundamental aspect of governance for most modern nations. It reminds us that modern governance has been wedded to information, even before it became fashionable to talk of the information age after the digital explosion. Different governments have sought mechanisms …
Dictionary>> Physics • UK/Australia An Australian scientist pointed out the most persistent scientific howler in the English lexicon. English dictionaries say siphons—the plastic tubes used to fill or drain everything from aquariums to petrol tanks—move liquid by “force of atmospheric pressure”. But atmospheric pressure is the same at both ends …
