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 …
ONLINE No ecology without equity, it is said. And vice versa. The North-South debate on environment and development revolves around this very maxim. The portal, www.choike.org, presents the Southern perspective on this, presenting works of NGOs and social movements. The portal serves as a platform from which organisations can disseminate …
Australian aboriginal leaders have sued London's Natural History Museum (nhm) for its decision to carry out dna tests on bones, teeth and skulls taken from the island's Aboriginals. The museum has agreed to return the 19th century specimens to Australia after tests are complete. Museum authorities argue that the tests …
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, a documentary by Rory Kennedy, shows that torture in Iraq's infamous prison cannot be written off as excesses by over-belligerent soldiers. Culpability trickled upward all the way to Washington, it shows. The film focuses on the way people assigned as prison guards at Abu Ghraib so …
A new English-language fm radio station intended to promote Israeli-Palestinian dialogue has begun operations. ram fm, operating from Ramallah in the West Bank, is backed by a South African group which had operated a station
>> The Iranian government has banned the website www. baztab.com. The site linked to former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezai, has recently published articles criticising the economic policies of president M Ahmadinejad's government and its decision to hold a conference questioning the veracity of the Holocaust. But it also has …
bbc has a mixed environmental record, according to the recently released bbc's Corporate and Social Responsibilities Report 2006. Carbon emissions went up to almost 0.25 tonnes per broadcast hour in 2005, compared to just over 0.15 tonnes the year before. The total waste per employee also rose, from almost 250 …
Only 16 of the uk's top 100 firms met government guidelines on reporting greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, says a Christian Aid report. It says emissions of 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than the annual emissions of Pakistan and Greece, vanished from annual reports of ftse 100 firms. "The …
The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre to take a decision on the beaming of ads with racist overtones. The ads in question were telecast by Nimbus Communications Limited, owner of the tv channel Neo Sports, during the the recent India-West Indies and India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket series. A …
While scientists are more or less agreed on the anthropogenicity of climate change, there are a number of models to measure the problem's gravity. The site under review investigates the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a
Iraq's beleaguered people have an unlikely ally in the search engine Google. Its online satellite map, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive violence in Baghdad. As sectarian strife has worsened, some Iraqis have set up websites to help others avoid death squads. One tip
A small group of students in Brooklyn, usa, have designed a plan for living with climate change. The students look ahead 50 years to see how rising seas might flood the Brooklyn waterfront neighbourhood of Dumbo, in a small exhibit called
Scientists using data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera experiment onboard European Satellite Agency's Mars Express spacecraft have produced the first
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has said that the state government was developing the third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad over an area of 120 hectares. A biotech incubation centre would be set up and be supported with technical inputs from the Indian Institute of Chemical …
Researchers are to carry out the first detailed survey of the Great Wall of China to establish just how long the ancient barricade is, the Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported. Along with checking its dimensions the four-year study, which starts in May, will map the wall's exact route. The …
Bulletin board http://environmentalresearchweb.org The site under review has information on a range of environmental issues from waste management to global warming to renewable energy. Run by the Bristol-based Institute of Physics (IOP), UK, it combines news articles on current issues with opinion pieces, links with environmental journals, a comprehensive database …
Has the environmentalist movement become a toothless tiger? What about the media; what are they good for? Should we quit eating red meat? What are the impacts of rearing animals for consumption? These are some of the questions that dogged me during my recent visit to the biggest city of …
One last time, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya promised last year. How can such a noble event be denied its "traditional' home? Next year, we'll have an alternative venue ready. The Indian Army, custodian of the maidan, reluctantly agreed and hundreds and thousands of feet trampled the maidan's already …
The Chinese government has issued its latest roster of jobs entitled to official state recognition. In are career consultants, jewelry evaluators, coffee baristas, sports agents and digital video mixers. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security did not release the job categories stricken from its list. In recent years, though, …
This month, the history department at Middlebury College, a small private institution in New England, voted to ban students from citing Wikpedia in academic work. Other us academic institutes also forbid students from using Wikipedia as their central source. But a search of court decisions by the New York Times …
