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 …
Launched in September 2004, Edusat is perhaps the world's only satellite fully dedicated to distance education. Edusat moves in a geo-synchronous orbit. Its 12 transponders (six in k u band and six in extended c band) provide five spot beams (see Glossary), each covering a specific region, and seven national …
Accurate exposure information for cosmetic products and ingredients is needed in order to conduct safety assessments. Essential information includes both the amount of cosmetic product applied, and the frequency of use. To obtain current data, a study to assess consumer use practices was undertaken. The study included three widely used …
E-mail Google started it, Yahoo followed and Hotmail has joined them. The e-mail wars are heating up with Microsoft announcing a massive increase in storage capacity for its Hotmail customers, countering Yahoo as the two rivals look to fight a challenge from Google. Microsoft plans to offer 250 megabytes of …
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 …
What makes globalisation undesirable? Globalisation can have positive benefits but if not managed well, it can also be very inequitable. It is exactly because it has not been managed well on several instances that many countries have not benefited, and have even suffered. Some may argue that the process is …
http://earthtrends.wri.org/ It is a must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses of environmental trends and policy initiatives. EarthTrends is the information portal of the World Resources Institute (wri), a us-based environmental think tank. The site has ten …
7 pm. Life unanimously locks itself up behind doors. The country east of West Bengal survives a timetable dictated by fear. Its calendar of common histories is scarred with incidents that are located in yesterday's headlines, almost like dictates. The newspapers don't need to exaggerate. And, the extraordinary stories of …
Folk Artistes Gyani Baba (wise saint, literarily), a seven feet-tall puppet with handle moustache, is up for a big task in Rajasthan's Ajmer district. He is teaching the importance of good governance and asking people to fight drought. Immensely popular, Gyani Baba has already travelled to around 100 villages. But …
Motion and change are the sum total of a glacier's life. These massive ice-fields were for long considered a delightful compromise between the seasonal variations in snow level. However, the balance of nature has now melted into the past. Despite looking the picture of tranquillity while metamorphosing, glaciers are today …
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
In 2002, the Survey of India began a year-long programme which celebrated 200 years of the Great Trigonometrical Survey (gts), a mammoth cross-country exercise the colonial government undertook in the nineteenth century to map the terrain of the (then) Indian subcontinent. A scientific endeavour that made perfect political and economic …
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. …
http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org Summer is here and with it water wars at neighbourhood taps and tanker stops. To find a way out of scarcity, visit the Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) rainwater harvesting website which encompasses the organisation's extensive research on water over the years. The neatly designed site offers plenty …
