The Central Government has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guideline and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023. This notification was issued on 6th April, 2023 and are effective from that same date. These Amendment Rules amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. They …
One of the natural resources from the treasure house of plant kingdom is the Neem tree. The tree is virtually a gift of nature to mankind because of its multiple properties that have high utility value both at domestic and farm level beside its products being eco-friendly and bio-degradable. Gandhi …
One of the natural resources from the treasure house of plant kingdom is the Neem tree. The need was felt to disseminate information and knowledge on the versatility of Neem. Enough data is available to support the effectiveness of well designed and developed media for transfer of information, knowledge and …
Environmentalists opened up a new front for climate change, by sending a bogus press release committing bp, Shell and other oil majors to a 90 per cent cut in carbon outputs by 2050 with no strings attached. bp's press office in London denied it would commit itself to a 90 …
Forests officers writing about conservation issues is nothing unusual. However, rarely does a forest officer write ethnographical accounts. C K Karunakaran, former chief conservator of forests, Kerala, has done just that. Adivasikalude lokam vanavasikal seeks to correct some popular misconceptions about tribal people. The book analyses the lifestyles of 21 …
The struggle against mining giants in Orissa got a shot in the arm after Mukta Jhodia, a campaigner against the Hindalco-led Utkal Alumina's bauxite mining project in Kashipur won the first Chingari Award for Women Fighting Corporate Crime. The award was instituted by Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, campaigners …
www.climatechangenews.org Four years back when this site was created, climate change rarely made the headlines. Today with the Nobel Peace Prize going to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, for his film An Inconvenient Truth, the issue is more conspicuous in the media. But the gravity of …
Food prices may climb for years because of the expansion of farming for fuel, climate changes, and demand from richer consumers in fast-growing developing nations, according to a report from a food research group. Biofuel expansion alone could push maize prices up by over two-thirds by 2020 and increase oilseed …
A once top-secret manuscript by Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist turned leading figure in us space exploration, which is widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern space science went under the hammer in New York. The 166-page document, which von Braun wrote for his PhD dissertation …
Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, often cites removing the fetters from the country's media as one of his proudest achievements. But under emergency rule his regime is coming down on the media with a heavy hand. Pakistan's premier Urdu news channel was shut down by the authorities in the third week …
>> Discovery Communications is partnering US video games publisher Activision Inc to make animal-themed games, Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said. Activision will make games with the titles tied to Discovery's Animal Planet channel. >> A TV expos
A unique exhibition of western desert Aboriginal artwork from the Papunya art movement went on display at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra in the last week of November. During the 1970s and early 1980s artists in the Northern Territory community of Papunya created a collection of works that …
An indigenous language in southern Mexico is in danger of disappearing because its last two speakers have drifted apart. The two elderly men, residents of Ayapan village in Mexico's Tabasco province are the only fluent speakers of Zoque. In a bbc interview in November, Fernando Nava of the Mexican Institute …
Chinese authorities will give a facelift to the world's tallest stone-carved Buddha just six years after the last repairs as they struggle to mitigate the effects of pollution and crowding, state media reported. Carved from a cliff beside a river, the 71-metre image of the seated Buddha at Leshan in …
Several major research libraries in the us have rebuffed offers from Google to scan their books into computer databases. The libraries, including a large consortium in Boston, are instead signing on with the Open Content Alliance, a nonprofit effort to make digital material as widely accessible as possible. Libraries that …
According to a new survey, the Hindi press is more popular compared to the top-selling English newspapers. In the readership survey conducted by Media Research Users Council, the language press edged out English newspapers as well, with Ananda Bazar Patrika in Bengali having 158 lakh readers, followed by Lokmat in …
>> E-bay, the world's largest online auctioneer, has launched a website that allows people to invest in loans that lift people out of poverty. The website, called MicroPlace, acts as a broker between ordinary investors and microfinance organisations. For as little as US $100, investors in the US will be …
Isabella Kirkland, a painter based in California, usa, has created a series of 3-by-4-feet canvases, called Taxa, on a variety of species. The six paintings, each of which took about a year to create, memorialize species that have vanished from the planet during the ascent of humans; those that are …
