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 …
Adventurous Net Forget the days when you had to risk your life taking part in hair-raising expeditions through the wilderness. You can do the same now right from your desk, thanks to the Net. Nicknamed
fishing for a livelihood in deep waters is replete with dangers. Every year, statistics of deaths at high seas only show an upward trend. With the development of a new communication device, however, by the rural electronics division of the Electronics Research and Development Centre (erdc), Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, fisherfolk …
drivers struggling to get out of traffic jams in Tokyo can now hope for a respite. It is now possible for hapless drivers to receive real-time information about which is the best route to their office and whether their favourite parking space is free. This has been made possible through …
OUT of all known sources that pose a cancer threat to humans, mobile phone is the latest. Nearly five million people in the UK could be at risk from developing cancer or asthma by using mobile phones. This has been concluded by scientists who carried out research in the US, …
IT WAS almost the last flight for passengers on board a commuter aircraft thattook off from Washington D C one nightin April last year. As the aircraft gainedheightthe pilot set its course for a shortflight to NewarkNew Jersey. Then suddenlythings went wonky. The air trafficcontrol radioed the pilot that the …
A new software called Exchange programme has been developed by the US-based Microsoft corporation, which can be used.as a tool for managing corporate mail and will allow groups of workers to share documents and projects. The programme will give direct competition to the popular Notes software of Lotus Development, now …
LACK of proper knowledge about poisoning and the use of antidotes leads to a number of deaths in the sub-continent. Now the first National Poisons Information Centre has been set up at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. The Centre will function round-the-clock and give immediate tips …
Charitable Net Non-profit groups are putting up their web sites to extend support to people in need. The free-to-browse sites disseminate information ranging from how to conserve oil to evil effects of free licensing of firearms. The American Red Cross Society calls for donations through its website, and surfers have …
THE rapidly evolving, inexpensive international communication afforded by the Internet is becoming increasingly important for non-profit groups. It has been instrumental in the organisation of campaigns against trans-national companies (TNCS) by environmental groups, as well as in providing a forum for information dissemination on subjects such as endangered tigers. Whereas …
ON MAY 15, after 40 days of the Majdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan's (MKSS) dharna (sit-in protest) for people's right to information (Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 24), the Rajasthan government at last bowed to mounting public pressure and constituted a five-member committee headed by the additional chief secretary Arun …
Goodyear, the US tyre giant, is developing sensitive truck tyres, which will provide information on the pressure, temperature and mileage oftyres. Goodyear is Currently checking the reliability of computer chips which will be embedded in the tyres. The chips will provide a method of measuring the mileage and will give …
Mad cows on net The newest site where the mad cow disease has struck is the Web. The research group CAB International hassetupahomepage at http://www.cabi.org/whatsnew/bse containing more t~an309sc.ientific references on bovIne spongIform encelopathy and Cruetjfeldt-Jacob disease. The British ministries of agriculture, fisheries and food badly hit by the recent fiasco, …
MARINE geologists in the us are currently being deluged with sea-floor data collected by two satellites -the us Geosat and the European Space Agency's ERS-l. These satellite images have revealed hitherto unknown features of the ocean floor, which could question the basic premise of existing geological theories. The two satellites …
• In Londona cafe called the Cyberia sells a cup of coffee for us$2.35 - and for another us $2.85half an hour"s access to theInternet on one of its 10 computers. • The Japanese call it maruchimedia or multimedia - and theypropose to link it to every home in Japan …
In the past, 'encryption' was a term closely related to espionage, which entailed the cloak-and-dagger despatch of secretly coded messages by spies from behind enemy lines. But in the modern world of computing, encryption has moved from the realm of the clandestine to that of the commonplace. The use of …
The Internet has been doubling its size every year since 1988: it is the fastest growing communications medium ever. More than 40 million people have access to it today. Over 110 countries have a direct access to the Internet and if other E-mail networks are taken into account, 168 have …
COMPUTER science techniques are being used to probe into the mysteries of archaeological finds, most famous of them being the Dead Sea scrolls, which carry a surfeit of information about many a biblical anecdote. A revolutionary discovery by scientists would now make it possible for scholars to restore and study …
A GROWING number of companies throughout the world are exploiting the power of laptop and palmtop - small handhelds that include a keyboard - computers. These systems are being used to speed up information flow to distant sites, feed field employees with the collective. intelligence of the organisation, and set …
THE struggle for people's right to all information relevant to their lives is intensifying worldwide. While some countries have accepted it as fundamental to the human rights issue, most - even those who have partially accepted this - have restricted the right to a greater or a lesser degree. No …
