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 …
scientists say that making predictions about greenhouse gas emissions in the next century is not going to be easy. By the year 2010, emissions could be five times as high as today's, twice the level previously predicted, or just possibly, they could be slightly lower than today's. The biggest hurdle …
according to a new report released by BirdLife International, a global wildlife group, one in eight of the world's bird species faces extinction in the next millennium because of damage to the environment. BirdLife International, representing 2.2 million people in 105 countries, said that 1,200 bird species could become extinct …
Imagine yourself enjoying the exhilaration of an African safari in the comforts of your living room. With a state-of-the-art Internet facility, it is now possible for animal lovers to view live the wild inmates of Africa's four famous natural reserves, including the Kruger National Park. To put it simply, a
PATENT rights from local communities, the Karnataka government has reportedly restrained some scientists from documenting biodiversity and indigenous assets of the people. The government is of the view that if the locals became aware of the commercial value of their produce they would go for patents and hence the restraint. …
The Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (barc), Mumbai, used "wrong' data and "unacceptable' methods of analysis to arrive at erroneous results that were published in several journals and world conferences between 1989 and 1991. This has been stated in a paper published in the Indian scientific journal Current Science. The paper …
india will launch three projects to control drug abuse, said Asha Das, secretary, ministry of social justice and empowerment. She stated that accurate statistics of abusers and the demand for illicit drugs is necessary and would also be of great help for the government in formulating effective drug control policies. …
In response to the direction passed by the environment bench of the Calcutta High Court, the director of the Union ministry for environment and forests, Manotosh Sengupta, submitted a report stating what steps have been taken in respect of arsenic contamination of the groundwater supply in eight districts of West …
the National Institute of Oceanography's ( nio ) Bioinformatics Centre has put together extensive information on the marine life of India. The facts and figures wrapped up in enticing pictures and graphics are available in three compact discs ( cd ) bought out by the Centre. It's first two cd …
About fixing the Y2K bug Is the millennial fever too much for you to resist? Are you already imagining all the havoc that the Y2K bug will cause to computer systems across the world? Also, do the spiritual aspects of the turn of the millennium arouse your interest? You can …
during the last three decades, a volcano has been erupting regularly in Arenal, Costa Rica. In 1992, geophysicist Milton Garces, based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, usa, took a step no one had ever dared to even dream of. He climbed up Arenal's rainforest slopes to listen to …
Under an emissions-disclosure system in Japan, the public will now have to pay for information about individual companies. The government will charge fees for information on corporate pollution
BEING market savvy is what business is all about. And green's the word in business today. Keeping up with the times, some companies have already gone "green'. How to go about informing the lay public and the consumer at large that a product consumes less natural resources, is pollution-free or …
Mobile phone company Orange recently displayed a prototype video- capable mobile phone at London's Live '98 technology exhibition. It uses a proprietary image compres- sion system developed at Strathclyde University, that can send 12 frames per second over 9.6 kilobit-per-sec- ond networks. Also in the exhibition was Philips, the Dutch …
New converts Cheap air travel - and the Internet - make the world seem smaller by the day, but there are some people who still insist on using strange measurements, funny money and unintelligible ingredients. How many millilitres are there in a shtoff, for example? What do you do when …
ACCORDING to Japan's Kyodo news agency, the US navy used 10 dolphins as "minesweepers" in a recent naval exercise off Hawaii. This is part of the navy project to utilise ocean mammals. The dolphins worked along with the US, Australian and Canadian submariners to detect possible enemy mines. The dolphins …
ALL life depends on the exchange of signals among cells. From important events such as conception, to sensations such as itching, everything depends on signals exchanged within your body. It has been known for long that calcium is a common intermediate in many signalling processes in living systems. When a …
Dig deep Despite all the developments in technology that we have witnessed so far, the past still interests us. It is, after all, responsible for the rich sense of history that we all possess and would feel incomplete without. And perhaps this is one reason why archaeology still has an …
when it comes to disclosing environmental performances, Indian companies take a back seat. The Bhopal gas tragedy is an extreme example of a company being responsible for the death of thousands of innocent people. Had the company disclosed its environmental status beforehand, the crisis could have been averted. However, despite …
The federal crime office of Germany is going to introduce a central DNA database for sex offenders, convicted murderers and others who commit serious offences. A plan to this effect was approved by Manfred Kanther, minister of interior. DNA databases have become invaluable to forensic scientists following advances in DNAanalysis. …
Mama knows bestInformation, as we all know, is something that the Internet simply overflows with. The problem, once you are "surfing' through those gigabytes in cyberspace, is to find what you are actually looking for. There are programmes called "search engines' that help you do just that, though most of …
