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 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 …
Jatindra Sarma, a forest officer in Assam has compiled a book on the medicinal value of plants in the state. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Assam with Special Reference to Karbi Anglong lists around 450 medicinal plants. The book should be a ready reckoner for scholars of the various Indian …
On August 1, protestors lined up streets of San Francisco against Dow Chemicals involvement in the much-acclaimed Blue Planet Run. The run began on June 1. Twenty runners will circumnavigate the earth's Northern Hemisphere, passing through 16 countries in 95 days. The run will conclude in New York on September …
Bhp Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, is planning to raze some of the great apes' rainforest habitat. The company is known to be an ardent supporter of the widely-watched bbc programme, Saving Planet Earth. The Sunday Times has uncovered documents that reveal the Anglo-Australian mining giant's plans to exploit …
John Mackey, head of us organic foods group Whole Foods Market, is being investigated for posting messages on the Internet about a rival company. He used a pseudonym to make comments about Wild Oats, a firm Whole Foods is hoping to buy in a us $565 million deal. Finance watchdogs …
A pan-African music festival held in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville has aroused much outrage from civil rights groups for making 22 pygmy musicians stay in a zoo. Organisers of the week-long music festival, which ended on July 14, told the media that they had hoped to recreate the natural …
>> RCTV, the opposition-aligned Venezuelan TV station forced off the air by the country's president Hugo Chavez, has resumed broadcasting on cable and satellite television. The station was off air since May 27, when Chavez granted its open airwaves signal to a state-controlled channel. >> Botswana's government has come to …
Australia now has a national television station to promote the culture of its indigenous people. National Indigenous Television (nitv) was launched in Sydney on July 16. The service will start off small, broadcasting to around 200,000 people and without a news service or a current affairs programme. Nevertheless, many artists …
Radio is the most ubiquitous piece of technology in the country. But opportunities afforded by this handy medium are not been utilised to their optimum by ngos, according to the Bangalore-based ngo Communication for Development and Learning (cdl). To help ngos tap the scope of the medium, the organisation has …
Officials in the Chinese city of Xiamen were forced to suspend plans for a paraxylene plant, after the town's residents organised a digital campaign that included blog posts, online signature campaigns and the distribution of nearly 1 million text messages. Paraxylene is a polluting, carcinogenic petrochemical used in the process …
www.dasani.com This website is prefaced by a question: "What makes your mouth water?' Before you have a moment to think, the answers come thick and fast. "The crisp taste of Dasani. Delicious Dasani flavours
a student group in Iran has recently produced a computer game that is a clever mix of the standoff over their country's nuclear programme, the mystery of missing diplomats in Lebanon and Iran's traditional animosity against Israel. Players must save captured Iranian diplomats and nuclear scientists from the clutches of …
There was a time when officious scientists held out climate change warnings and boisterous activists would take the issue out on to the streets. They still do that. But increasingly, celebrities are also warming up to climate change. On July 7, pop stars and a panoply of celebrities lent their …
Mine workers' safety has moved beyond fulminations of activists and official confabulations. To corporate circles, it seems, going by an ad issued by Simplex, an engineering products company located in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. "How long coal miners will work manually?" the ad asks. It's easy to mistake this poster-sized ad for …
People polluting water in the us state of Tennessee face online infamy. The state's department of environment and conservation has begun listing companies and individuals violating the Clean Water Act from June 26, 2007. The action is part of a public access bill that was passed as part of the …
>> Bangalore's first community radio was launched in the last week of June. It's the second such station in Karnataka and will focus on issues of health, environment, development, science, women's welfare and social issues, in turn seeking to inform and educate while entertaining the public. Content will be generated …
Renewable energy pioneers from Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Tanzania were among the winners of this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Development. Kerala-based ngo Biotech was adjudged the winner in the Food Security category. It bagged the 30,000 pounds (us $60,000) prize for developing biogas plants that use food waste …
South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Monsanto to withdraw an ad in the widely read You magazine. The full-page magazine advert titled 'Biotechnology -- the true facts', sought to assure South Africans about the safety of gm foods. It, in fact, held that gm foods were "safer and more …
