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 …
A QUICK and easy information and data source on science and technology will soon be available to journalists covering science and technology. When it becomes operational later this year, the Vigyan Prasar Information System (vipris) will be a one-stop shop for deadline beaters with a data access, conceptual or analytical …
European railway companies have decided to undergo a facelift. A consortium of 11 railway companies are joining hands to develop a crossborder European communications network. It plans to lay fibre optic cables alongside Europe's rail lines to provide an uninterrupted network transnationally. The consortium has linked up with Global Telesystems …
THE pitiable status of India's communications infrastructure and information technology was last evident, in sputtering neon, when the Indian government went overboard with its economic liberalisation policy. With its gates open, India made it clear that it had nothing, except primitive runners and piles of curling paper, that could remotely …
IT IS 10.30 in the night and every villager from Kaphlana is all rapt attention on, say forest protection or alcoholism, legal rights or the drudgery of women. They have heard all this before, so why are they listening so eagerly and even shouting occasional comments? Is it some brilliant …
An online networking facility introduced on November 19 by the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) will enable Indian manufacturers to keep track of international patents and the latest available industrial technologies. In the past, representative organisations of the Indian industry regularly complained about delays in patent and copyright information. As …
With the coming of the fibre optics revolution, information can now be transmitted at the speed of light. At the heart of this revolution is a glass or plastic fibre no thicker than a human hair. A fibre optic cable often only as thick as a pencil can carry a …
ON OCTOBFR 16, 1994, musicians in Paris, Bombay, Jakarta and Singapore played the tune, We are the world, in perfect unison, while people in the 4 cities watched them on giant video screens. This was possible thanks to the world's longest optical fibre submarine communication cable that was inaugurated in …
SANICHAR is a smalltime grocer in the straggling, dusty town of backyard Jhumri Talaiya in Bihar. He barely manages to sell a few dozen bars of soap and detergent a month. But 1,600 km away in Bombay, a man with a computer is keeping tabs on Sanichar"s bottomline sales. With …
• global warming Showing changes in sea temperatures and sea-level rise and their effect on fish movement • philanthropy Determining how much money is donated to the arts versus impoverished areas • rural marketing Keeping track of rural outlets and plotting the best supply routes to show increasing sales • …
The greatest obstacle to the spread of GIS, feel experts, is the access, or rather the lack of it, to authentic and accurate and unstoppable information - the soul of GIS. Says Subhan Khan of NISTADS, "In India, it is particularly bad. Here, it would appear, every piece of information …
Digital palimpsest: In 1991, the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, used GIS to undertake a pilot study for wasteland development in Bellary district of Karnataka. The wastelands were divided into 16 classes based on various parameters. Digitised maps of single parameters, such as distance to roads (top left), soil type …
WILL the Official Secrets Act determine how efficiently India can utilise and manage its resources? This is the question that the Geographical Information System (GIS), a highly-promising computer software with almost unforeseeable benefits, seems to pose. The GIS softwares, with their mindboggling array of applications, offer arguably the best possibilities …
INFORMATION is power. "Information highways" serve as economic channels for world trade now, just as the sealanes, railways and roads were the foundation of trade and commerce in times past. Small wonder, then, that -- like wealth -- its distribution is skewed; it is the economically-deprived who are also the …
NORMAL life came to a grinding halt in Canada when a geomagnetic disturbance hit two of its communications satellites -- Anik E1 and Anik E2. Television and radio transmissions were disrupted across the nation. Canadian Press, the country's biggest news service that feeds information to more than 100 newspapers and …
RESPONDING to the lack of awareness on environmental and developmental issues in the country, some non-governmental organisations are trying to spread information in these areas on two fronts. The first is by providing news to agencies and individuals involved in environment-related issues, which is essentially an updating programme. The second …
DR COMPUTER As scholars expounded on the significance of traditional sciences, a computer in the pandal outside prescribed lifestyles to the more practical-minded. The diagnostic system was a software called Prakruthi, devised by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Based on the principles of Ayurveda, the system fires …
World AIDS Day in early December saw a rash of programmes on the battle against the disease, with Doordarshan and the satellite channels doing their bit to publicise the enormous degree of education and mobilisation needed to meet this killer head-on. One drab discussion on Doordarshan's morning show was enlivened …
The successful completion of all launch preparations for the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) did much to dispel the shadow of gloom in the Indian space establishment, cast in July by the US forcing Russia to withhold transfer of cryogenic technology to India. In a more cheerful mood than he …
NOW THAT the Russians have finally backed out of the deal to supply India with cryogenic rocket-engine technology, Indian space scientists face their biggest technological challenge ever. With more countries wanting communication facilities, satellite launching promises to be big business in the highest of high-tech leagues. The US, afraid of …
Each launch vehicle progressively developed by India is capable of placing bigger payloads into higher orbits. The country's hope of carving a niche in the space-launch market rests on the GSLV
