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 …
INDIA has achieved a major break- through in the production of gallium at the National Aluminium Refinery, Damanjodi, Orissa, with the setting up of a pilot plant to produce 1,000 kg of gallium per year. India has thus become a potential source of this strategic raw material for the world's …
The day the Internet died Pundits often predict that the Net will soon grind to a hat under an intolerable burden of spam, newbies and Web pages that rant about Microsoft. It hasn't happened yet - but in late April the Net suffered a near-death experience when 40 per cent …
HOPEFULLY, the public will now know. If a draft bill on the freedom of information, prepared by a 12-member committee, is accepted by the Union Cabinet,-the government will be under obligation to provide citizens with any information they ask for. Such a measure is more than welcome. The right to …
Radio Sagarmatha. the first independent radio station in Nepal and the first community broad-casting station in South Asia. will start broad-casting its programmes by the end of June. Supported by UNESCO. the station will be run by a consortium of four NGOs -the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ). the …
Why is the European Union so strongly in favour of a forest convention? , I recently asked Jorgen Steen Neilsen, the editor of Information, a highly respected daily in Copenhagen, and a highly respected environment journalist himself. The issue of a forest convention is being raked up again and is …
The UN has urged governments to promote sales of technology to control pollution, in a series of studies commissioned by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). One of the studies underlines the need to spread information about investment opportunities in the environmental field and better enforcement of environmental laws. Another of …
the director general of the Indian Council for Forestry Research and Education (icfre) in Dehra Dun, B N Gupta, recently stressed the need for disseminating correct information on issues related to forest policy. While addressing the International Workshop on Forest Research in Conservation of Natural Forests that began at the …
Surfers browsing the Internet via America Online are being told to slow down because the company cannot cope up with the demand. In a written apology to its eight million subscribers, America Online has explained the difficulty its subscribers are experiencing while trying to get through. The company blames the …
May 16 will be the end of nine months of hard labour for TVE. The day will see the launch of Moving Pictures 6 , an on-line film distribution catalogue. Available at http:,,nt. oneworld.org,mp6,index.htm, the database catalogue contains details of all the 370 films and videos TVE currently has in …
CARDI0 Voice Monitoring, a New Jerseybased company has developed a telephone with a built-in heart monitor which will storm the us market this year. Called CardioVoice, the telephone looks exactly like the conventional one but has an electrode in its receiver that can be used to monitor the heart rate …
Web of physics The discovery of a leptoquark in a particle accelerator in Germany has created ripples in the world of particle physics. "If the existence of the new particle is confirmed by further experiments, it could be on par with the discovery of the electron or DNA", says one …
HERBAL REMEDY:A sore throat reliever, the first of a new range of herbal oral care products, has been launched by the Mumbai-based Kopran Pharmaceuticals. The company will also introduce a mouth ulcer gel, a mouth deodoriser a destaining toothpaste and a cracked voice healer under the Smyle range of products. …
Children absorb more information by watching TV than by reading, says a study done by Juliette Walma van der Molen and Tom van der Voort of Leiden University in the Netherlands. Five news stories were distributed among 152 children aged 10-12 years. Half the children received information from the original …
With the help of a grant assistance of US $1.8 million from Finland, the Nepal government will be preparing a complete inventory of Nepalese forest resources under the forest resources information system project. The government has already compiled information on about 40 percent of land area as part of the …
Researchers D A Redelmeier and R J Tibshirani of the University of Toronto, US, say that driving while talking on cellular phones is as dangerous as driving while slightly drunk. A perusal of the telephone records of drivers involved in 699 roadway collisions in Canada showed that the risk of …
Medicinal net A journey through the Internet is a little like the early voyages of exploration. Long periods of searching and hopeful travelling are filled with bursts of excitement if something fruitful comes into view. An online journal dedicated to H M S Beagle could provide the same thrill for …
Electrical utility transformers that use oil as an insulating barrier between the high and low voltage wire windings often fail because moisture and explosive gases build up in the oil, forming a pathway for a sudden, dangerous electric arc between the windings. Larson-Davis Inc of Provo, Utah, us , have …
smokeless autos: Two low-emission cars recently rolled out of Honda Motor Co of Japan. The emission levels of the two models - Civic Ferio LEV and the Partner 1.6 LEV - are only one-tenth of those specified by current regulations in Japan. The Civic Ferio is priced at around US …
the chlorine gas leak in January this year has spurred action among various ngos in Lahore, demanding more protection for the victims. They have founded the Action Committee for the Gas Affectees of Baja Lines. The committee comprises representatives of ngos (Shirkat Gah, World Wide Fund for Nature, Aurat Foundation, …
