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 …
it started off as a picnic. About 50 children in the 12-13 age group from schools in and around Delhi were taken on a boat ride down the river Yamuna on Saturday, May 2. The aim: sensitising the children to the state of the river that flows through the city …
the American linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky once asserted that human beings, apart from being the only species able to communicate through a spoken language, are further endowed at birth with an innate linguistic ability. What Chomsky meant is that the human brain is essentially precon-ditioned to construct the …
A Public Interest Petition filed in the Delhi High Court seeks disciplinary action against G P Phondke, director of the National Institute of Science Communication, a part of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. A division bench comprising Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice C K Mahajan has ordered …
a smart card that can pretend to be a floppy disc is due to be launched in the uk soon. It will allow the user to programme numbers into his or her cellphone simply by slotting the card into the floppy disc drive of a computer. The card fits into …
The Supreme Court has ordered a high powered panel to probe charges of corruption against the the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board chairperson for power theft and swindling. Electricity theft, leading to bungling of over Rs 750 crore and a dubious coal purchase deal involving Rs 123 crore are the …
the easiest mode of communication, talking, and the one that we have always taken for granted, can prove to be difficult for many people. Those who have difficulties with speech are learning to pronounce words more clearly using an artificial palate that "tells' them exactly what their tongue is doing. …
The Tamil Nadu government has appealed before a divisional bench of the Madras High Court, seeking to set aside a single judge order for a CBI probe into the Tirupattur sandalwood smuggling case, involving a ruling party MLA, G Shanmugan. The state government has contended that "in the absence of …
optoelectronics has revolutionised the field of communications. With lasers, optical switches and fibber optics, the data-transfer rates routinely achieved now on optical networks are thousands of time those of their conventional counterparts. In the last few years, there have been many advances in optoelectronics which have made this possible. Now …
More than 200 airships will be launched into the stratosphere by the year 2000, the Japanese government announced. Floating 20 km above the Earth's surface, these 260-m-long zeppelins will be used like normal communications satellites, specially for mobile phones. Costing one-tenth the price of a conventional communications satellite, these airships …
Springing into actionSpring is in. The birds are singing and the fragrance of the first blossoms has filled the air. So get ready with that rake to do some serious gardening this year. If you are curious to know what will grow in that patch in your lawn, but do …
geographic Information Systems ( gis ), a computer software for mapping geographical data for civic and environmental planning, is now being used in Sikkim and Darjeeling for landslide management and mitigation. One of the major problems in mitigating a disaster is the lack of warning. The advantage of having a …
talking, for most of us, comes naturally. But how we develop this ability for verbal communication had many experts guessing. But not any more. For the first time, scientists and geneticists are hot on the trail of a gene that shapes the development of human language. They hope that this …
The Internet is perhaps the next best thing after we discovered fire and invented the wheel. An astounding wealth of information on every subject under the Sun just waiting for a click of the mouse. Simply amazing. This time, we look at some of the sites on the world wide …
as long as those little, green men do not show up, the third stone from the sun - Earth - remains the only planet that can boast of life. In fact, life is in such abundance here that science can often lose track of all the various lifeforms that we …
Surf's up There are many obvious parallels between the Internet and the oceans. You can surf on both, a lot of people are scared by both, and the deeper you go into them the more horrible are the things that you might dredge up. But all that aside, there is …
Radio gaga If you are curious about the history of radiology then you should not miss the site at http.//www.xray.hmc. psu.edu/rci/contents_4.html. This contains a philatelic history of radiology. Did you know that Marie Curie alone has appeared on stamps printed in Cameroon, North Korea and Dahomy (now Benin). The site …
PARTNERS in peril is a film on the life of the people living in the Sundarbans and the state of resources in the area. Sundarbans is the only mangrove tiger land in the world. The present population of the tiger is estimated to be around 250. The tigers are the …
Accessing the Internet might just became as easy as turning on the light switch. Northern Telecom and Norweb Communications recently tested data transmission over electrical power lines. Using a protocol to suppress noise in the cables, a data transfer rate of about a megabit per second was achieved. However, there …
from the flat-panel screens of laptops to huge liquid crystal displays (lcd) at sports stadiums, transparent electrodes find innumerable applications in the consumer electronics industry. But now, scientists feel that lcd screens, more sophisticated than ever before, can be developed using newer materials like that recently developed by Hiroshi Kawazoe …
since the days of the magnetic or paper tape, data-storage technology has come long way. Magnetic disks, compact discs and now, even optical storage is fast becoming a reality. Of these, hologra-phic memory appears the most promising way to store huge amounts of data. With ultra-high storage densities, faster data …
