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 …
>> Abul Hussam, a chemistry professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, was awarded the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. The Bangladesh-born US citizen was awarded by the Lake-Forest, USA-based Grainger Foundation for his work on a filtration system that prevents serious health problems caused by arsenic in water. >> …
In rural Vidharbha, theatre is thriving probably because of a play that has struck chord with agriculturists here. Called Atma Hatya, the play has drawn daily audiences in excess of 5,000. "We have farmers, tailors, painters and vendors in our plays,' says Ghulam Sufi of the Venkatesh natya mandali that …
A poem recorded by legendary singer Jim Morrison shortly before he died is to be released as a song to raise awareness of climate change. Recorded by the former Doors frontman in Paris in 1971, it will be released as a single in April. The poem, Woman in the Window …
Did all the human rights groups and journalists who investigated the Salwa Judum-Naxalite conflict raging in Chhattisgarh for over two years get it wrong? The state-backed anti-Naxalite tribal militia isn't responsible for the forcible displacement of thousands of people in Dantewada district. It hasn't looted and pillaged villages, burnt homes …
Till some time back, India was the poster child of globalisation. A country which opened out to the world in the early 1990s and the world responded enthusiastically. The Indian economy grew. A section of people in the country prospered. The poster child now seems poised for adulthood. So believes …
The media is often accused of hyping research to attract interest. But many distortions and misunderstandings arise because scientists themselves fail to communicate results in a meaningful way. Now a new set of guidelines designed to help scientists communicate effectively with the media has been drawn up. The guidelines were …
>> Germans have found a novel way of recycling thousands of used and unsold Christmas trees: to give them to the local zoo to feed the animals. "Elephants around the country will have a delicious lunch of five Christmas trees each,' Berlin zoo spokesperson Ragnar Kuehne informed the news agency …
The last letters written by Antarctic explorer Robert Scott to his wife and young son before the adventurer died on his South Pole expedition are to go on display for the first time. On January 17, they went on display at Scott Polar Research Institute, which was established at Cambridge …
The amount of nicotine that us smokers typically inhale per cigarette rose by 11 per cent from 1998 to 2005, perpetuating a "tobacco pandemic' that makes it harder for smokers to quit, according to a study by Harvard School of Public Health. The researchers analysed data submitted by major cigarette …
A us official denied a British newspaper report that President George W Bush was preparing to announce a dramatic policy shift on global warming in his State of the Union speech. The Observer had quoted senior British officials, who were not named, to this effect. Bush and British prime minister …
The site under review introduces us to the work of the Gender and Space Project. Undertaken by the Mumbai-based Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research, the project focuses on gender as a category to examine the ordering and experience of the city and its varied spaces, particularly public spaces. …
with the Indian economy growing at a breathtaking pace, the urban Indian consumer has never had it so good. There are more cars, more ipods, more mobile phones than what anybody could have imagined 15 years ago. Fuelled by rising advertising revenues, the media is focused only on phenomenal growth …
the 94th edition of the Indian Science Congress, held January 2-7, 2007 at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, sought to be different. Revolving around the theme of "Planet Earth', it sought to "address vital issues related to our natural habitat'. The areas of deliberation included energy security, earth-ocean-atmosphere interactions, …
Ending a three-year halt in providing aid, the European Union (eu) recently resumed aid payments to the West African nation of Guinea. The eu had earlier given the country around us $152 million for development. Part of the aid was frozen in 2002 over the country's lack of political stability, …
Telecommunications in Southeast Asia was badly affected after an earthquake hit southern Taiwan on December 27, 2006. Fixed-line and mobile international telephone connections were largely back on line two days after the quake, but officials warned that it could take several more days before Internet access across much of Southeast …
The uk's public health authorities think New Year's pledges are a good means to curb down smoking. They have ushered in the New Year with an anti-smoking ad which shows smokers being violently seized by a fish-hook and dragged to their traditional smoking spots. The five-week campaign, which will be …
The Global Language Monitor has named "sustainable' the top word of 2006, and "stay the course,' the top phrase. The San Diego, usa, based organisation's annual list also cited "Darfur', the war-torn region of Sudan, as the top name of the year. The monitor said "sustainable' was used frequently over …
On Decmber 22, 2006, sculptor Lita Albuquerque put up for view, an artist's conception of the realities of vast time and space in an unlikely gallery: a corner of Antarctica. Stellar Axis, a 182 metre installation, consisting of 99 blue fiberglass spheres of varying sizes in a pattern mirroring the …
