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 …
THE ancients in India believed that the divine aphorisms of the Vedas, once uttered, remained for ever in the ether. The great seers were probably talking web before anyone conceived it. But the Vedas are now actually available in the ether, courtesy four "crazy" people who have put it on …
IN A country like India, where illiteracy is rampant and each region has a dialect of ' its own, it is essential to develop visual aids to help impart information. This is especially true of rural India. A project funded by the , Ford Foundation, New Delhi, sought to study …
Manufacturers today are looking for ways to pack in more data in laser discs. But the most commonly used lasers emit red light which has a longer wavelength compared to blue light. Attempts to make a blue semiconductor laser have so far not been very successful. Now, a team of …
MILLIONS of pounds will be spent in the UK over the next three years on a new generation of high-speed radio networks that will provide super- highway services directly in offices and homes. The systems mean that consumers and businesspeople can have access to the Internet and use high-speed digital …
The talk of the town at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas early this year was Motorola's new StarTac mini cellular phone, stated to be the smallest and highest cell phone in the world to date. Like something from a "Mission: Impossible" catalogue, the device is almost like a …
A CHEAP fingerprint recognition system may soon replace passwords and thereby make online shopping secure. In this system you can verify financial transactions on the Internet by keeping your fingerprint on a tiny touchscreen attached to your personal computer. This is the promise of a new fingerprint recognition technology developed …
Toll-free phone Installing the right software can transform the computer into a toll- free phone. To connect, both parties must have Internet accounts, the same brand of telephone software and multimedia computers with 486 processors or better. Internet Phone, a software developed by VocalTecof Northvale, New Jersey is currently the …
Made for each other Sun Microsystems Incorporated have developed new microprocessor chips compatible with their newly launched Java software. The chips bearing price tags that range from US $25 to $100 could eventually replace the current desktops and enable the user to hook directly onto the Internet. All one would …
INTERNET, the world's communication network will soon becorne the source for crofters - tenants in Scotland holding small plots of arable land near their homes - to access information al;6ut the ecological impact of fanning a4iions on their land. "We would like to explore @o what extent computer technology @ould …
AIR POWER: Sita Enterprises Ltd, a Mumbai-based export and consultancy company, is all set to breeze into the wind and hydel power sector. The company is planning to construct a hydel power project with a generating capacity of four MW costing around Rs four crore. According to AshokTulsian, managing director …
Wired books Small-time publishers have come up with a novel way of reaching an enormous readership: netting out the material. Aptly titled E-zines, the electronic magazines number more than 750, ranging from the Abraxus Reader to the Zzone's Zmagazine. Categories include everything c('nceivable from paranoia and punk Marxism to classical …
The explosive growth in the use of cellular telephones is threatening the field of radio astronomy which investigates everything from the formation of galaxies to finding better ways of predicting earthquakes (Newsletter of the International Telecommunication Union, No 8). The warning came from the authors of the new Handbook on …
No more illusions A new survey conducted by the New York based market research concern, Find/SVP, estimates that the number of Internet users in the US is only 9.5 million. The survey suggests that two- thirds of the Internees users log on to the worldwide computer network only once a …
THE world's oceans and seas will soon become conduits for carrying conversations across major countries in what is being referred to as the 'information superhighway'. The us $1.5 billion project took off as the laying of the first stages of the FLAG (Fibreoptic Link Around the Globe) cable system took …
GEOSPHERE versus biosphere interactions not only precipitate but also moderate changes in the global environmental system. While several studies have concentrated on modern anthropogenic activities, the socioeconomic dimensions of human-environment relationship over time has not been properly documented. It is here that the remote sensing and geographical information system (GIS) …
The race to provide the world's first global hand-held mobile phone service has been won by TRW. The US Patent and Trademarks Office has issued two patents related to the mediam earth orbit (MEO) Odyssey system that TRW is expected to launch. Satellites in the MEO would be located at …
IT is very, very Japanese: small, slick and efficient. Called the Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), this mini cellular phone made its debut in Japan on 1 July, 1995. it is Japan's first homegrown telecommunications technology - a low-powered, low-cost version that can be utilised both as a mobile phone and …
Netting in moolah Restaurants in Japan have embarked on a novel method to boost their sales. To engage their visitors as they wait for tables to clear, many have installed a personal computer connected to the Internet. The guests have a choice between browsing through the restaurant's home page and …
IN THE backward regions of the world, there is as much a need for technology as there is for organisational know-how for improving productivity. Effective administration and demand-supply management can be established by cost-beneficial electronics communications and Computer technology advances which make possible a state of 'zero-tag-time' taken to reach …
DESKTOP flatbed scanners are widely used for making layout preview scans and other tasks too. Previously, a drum scanner was needed to achieve true print quality image. Design studies and other firms with moderate volumes of scanning had to commission production scans from outside companies. Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Ltd of …
