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 …
The bbc has scrapped plans for Planet Relief, a tv special on climate change. The decision came after the corporation's executives said it was not the bbc's job to lead opinion on climate change. Environmentalists slammed the decision. "The only reason why this became an issue is that there is …
>> Ullas Karanth, the Indian wildlife biologist, best known for his prolific research and writing on tigers, has been given the prestigious J Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership for 2007
Images highlighting the dangers of smoking will be printed on all tobacco products sold in the uk by the end of 2009, under regulations being planned. Manufacturers will have to start complying from October next year. After a public consultation, 15 images, including ones of diseased lungs, have been chosen …
A pestilence spread by travellers, pets and curious teenagers may show that experts have not taken everything into account when planning for an outbreak of disease, according to us researchers, writing in the medical journal, The Lancet. But luckily they are talking of a computer game gone awry. And more …
The cultish power of big corporations has found expression in films, even angry documentaries. It's theatre now. But Walmartopia, a musical satire travelling to towns in the us, is meant for an upscale audience that would never set foot in a Wal-Mart. But its point is well made: only because …
http://www.amphibiaweb.org Call it a virtual initiative to help a variety of animals, many of whose ancestors shared space with dinosaurs. The decline of amphibians has spurred a group of volunteers who run www.amphibiaweb.org: an online system that enables anyone with a web browser to look up information relating to amphibian …
Two Indian film-makers who had braved forest brigand Veerappan to shoot a film on wild dogs were feted at a recent Japanese festival. Wild Dog Diaries, made by the Mysore-based filmmaker-photographer duo S Krupakar and Senani Hegde, has bagged the Best of the Festival Grand Award 2007 at the Japanese …
Barely a month goes by without a painting by an Australian aboriginal artist selling for a record price. But the beauty of those paintings that frequently grace Australia's art galleries and corporate board rooms mask the often complex stories they tell. The dots and lines that represent sand hills and …
Chinese authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the collapse of a bridge in southern China, with local officials punching and chasing reporters from the scene of the mishap. The harassment and the reporting ban, issued by the Central Propaganda Department, came on August 16 after reporters swarmed …
>> Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary The 11th Hour opened in theatres on August 17. The film starts with a bleak outlook on issues like global warming. Much of the roughly 90-minute movie is, however, not bleak. It suggests ways to heal the environment with human, government and corporate action. >> Ushuaia …
The Australian government's advisory group on drugs has defended a graphic new television campaign about the drug crystal methamphetamine or ice. It shows an office worker unable to sleep after smoking the drug; a man flying into a psychotic rage in a hospital and smashing a window; a young woman …
The recent claim by researchers from the uk that Indian scholars predated Isaac Newton in making a key mathematical discovery has run into controversy. An Indian researcher has alleged that the findings are not new. The Manchester University had reported on its website on August 13 that according to new …
Ten of thousands of contributors work to ensure that online encyclopedia Wikipedia is in a constant state of update. But now an innovation on the site has confirmed a long-held suspicion: Wikipedia is a prime target for spin-doctoring. A new identification programme on the site reveals that some of the …
http://www.peakoil.com In 1956 M King Hubbert, a geologist for Shell Oil, predicted that production of oil would peak in the 1960s, and will decline then. Although derided by most in the industry, he was correct. Hubbert was the first to assert that oil discovery, and therefore production, would follow a …
Norway should legally bind its ghg emission reduction. This is one of the demands of aKutt: an ongoing campaign by Spire, a youth organisation that works with development and environment issues in Norway. The Norwegian government decided in June this year that the country will reduce its ghg emission by …
Africa's largest slum, has got a radio station. A five-story apartment building at the edge of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya recently sprouted a new antenna
A Nepalese community radio station has become the only source of news for flood-hit villagers in Bihar's Darbhanga district. Radio Janakpur is a popular station for people in Bihar's Darbhanga and Sitamarhi districts, even in normal times. But with people not getting newspapers, and with the local radio station submerged …
>> Disney Studio has pledged to remove smoking from its family-oriented films. The media giant's chief executive Robert A Iger said depictions of smoking will be "discouraged' in films aimed at adults released under its Touchstone and Miramax banners. Iger made the promise in a letter to US congressman Edward …
The National Natural Science Foundation of China has blacklisted 13 academicians for fraud, according to the daily Xinhua. This is the institute's fourth round of "naming and shaming' of scholarly fraudsters since 2005. The fraudulent practices included plagiarism, fabricating data, falsifying signatures and violating application procedures and other rules to …
The uk's advertising standards authority has banned an ad for cleaning specialist Clearway Environmental Services because the real-life images it contained were "too graphic and shocking for consumers'. The ad in Inside Housing magazine was headlined "No job too big, no job too awful. Clearway: the specialists in dealing with …
