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 …
Community journalism has never had it this strange. James Macpherson, publisher of a two-year-old website pasadenanow.com recently hired two journalists from India to report local events in a small town in the us. They will report on local events in Pasadena, California, from India. The us has been outsourcing media …
>> A report released on May 7 by the pressure group, Media Matters for America, says minorities and women get less space in prime-time news programmes in the us. The three-week study said most of the hosts and guests on the shows at msnbc, Fox News and cnn were white …
A large number of ancient indigenous artefacts were unearthed on May 17 in Australia. They were found at a construction site for the Australian defence headquarters at Bungendore in southern New South Wales. Around 20,000 tools of about 5,000 years old were recovered while the foundations of a hotel, which …
Estonia has recently accused Russia of waging a cyber war against it. It said the country's websites were under attack, which came from networks hosted by Russian state computer servers. Head of it security at Estonia's defence ministry, Mikhail Tammet, said the attacks affected the functioning of the government since …
A Greenpeace report on May 18 accused oil major ExxonMobil of aiding research against the impacts of climate change. "ExxonMobil is still giving grants to research organisations that question the science of climate change,' says the report. The company gave about us $23 million to such groups from 1998 to …
http://www.eol.org/ Five major universities in the us are on a mission to create the Earth's book of life. According to the researchers, over the next 10 years, information about the planet's 1.8 million species will be available for free on web. This project has been initiated by the Harvard University, …
The Supreme Court has stepped into the dispute between dth provider Tata Sky and Sun tv. It has directed the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (tdsat) to adjudicate whether or not the Tata and Star tv owned dth company can access select signals of Sun tv. Meanwhile, the issue …
The us's National Association for Colored People will hold a symbolic funeral for the word "nigger' at the organisation's annual convention in July as part of its campaign to end the prevalence of racist and sexist language, images and concepts in the media. "Our unit in the youth and college …
The Union information and broadcasting ministry (i&b) is considering amending rules pertaining to employment of foreigners and non-resident Indians (nris) in newspapers and other current affairs publications. These publications will have to intimate details of foreigners/nris they propose to employ. But they can employ foreigners or nri while the process …
>> US publications like The Washington Post and National Geographic are increasing their offerings of "green' content, hoping to attract readers and advertising revenues from manufacturers and retailers who are suddenly walking the earth-friendly path. The National Geographic Society has also rolled out a new site: Green.National Geographic.com. That site …
In November last year, Brazil's National Health Monitoring Agency launched a public debate on regulations that would ban radio and tv advertising for soft drinks and foods with sugar, saturated fat or salt. The government is expected to issue a decree on such measures in June. Brazil is not alone. …
One of the world's rarest rhinos was caught on film for the first time on Borneo island, recently. Malaysian officials of global conservation organisation wwf said the two-minute video, recorded early this year by a camera hidden in the jungle, was the first to capture the behaviour of the elusive …
Willie Corduff, an Irish farmer who opposed oil giant Shell's plans to build a gas pipeline on his land, is among this year's recipients of the Goldman Environmental prize. Awarded annually to six grassroots environmental heroes by the California-based Goldman Foundation, the us $125,000 Goldman Environmental prize is often referred …
An alternative to car culture? www.worldcarfree.net Almost all of us have, at some point, rued our slavish dependence on cars. But the exasperation has always been fleeting. Most of us bear with traffic congestion and car breakdowns and brave unsafe roads, comforting ourselves with the thought that there are no …
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on april 12, three people were killed and eight injured in Uganda over protests against the government's plan to give away part of the country's biggest rainforest land (Mabira forest) to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd (scoul). Among the people killed was an Indian. The protests took a racial dimension …
Has the time come to scrap the Internet and start anew? Some think so. Internet is 40-plus and growing. It faces many challenges today in terms of connection speed and data storage. Increasing mobility of devices and a lack of security threaten the reliability of the network. Scientists in the …
Mobile phone wallpapers and ringtones of endangered species are becoming popular among cell phone users. The images and sounds, introduced in December 2006 by us-based Center for Biological Diversity (cbd), are available for free download on www.rareearthtones.org. The initiative has already found many takers, with more than 60,000 people in …
Broadband connectivity is still poor in Africa. Since global optical fibre broadband infrastructure has not yet been introduced here, people in eastern and southern Africa cannot afford to make international calls. The Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme (rcip) supported by the World Bank, seeks to improve international connectivity in Africa. …
>> On April 16, the Anti-vivisection League, an animal rights group in Italy, asked Pope Benedict to stop wearing fur as a sign of respect for the "sacredness of all living species'. The Pope wears a red velvet hat trimmed with white ermine fur, known as "camauro'. They made the …
