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 …
Heard of Thalaserry? It's a small town in North Kerala, where cricket was first played in India more than two centuries ago. Towns such as Thalaserry are not very well known. But that might change soon when a web-based initiative by unesco to make cultural maps of important, but little …
An innovative Australian play highlights the dire status of Australia's indigenous people. Ngapartji Ngapartji, staged at the Sydney Theatre festival held in the third week of January, is based on the forced removal of people from their traditional land in the Central Desert for British atomic weapons testing during the …
http://www.business-humanrights.org HAWK'S EYES ON BUSINESS Corporate social responsibility has become a buzzword in industry. Business organizations these days take great pains in emphasizing the ethical side of their activities, with many even having corporate social responsibility departments. One tends to wonder, however, how genuine this concept is. Is it a …
Consumer rights groups in the country have come out against surreptitious advertising by cola companies. Sixty such organizations have come together to constitute the Indian chapter of the Global Dump Soft Drinks Campaign, which demands that governments curb advertising of sugar-rich beverages, especially those targeting children under 16. The campaign …
The South Asia Media Commission has declared 2007 a very difficult year for South Asian journalists. The year saw 25 journalists and media workers getting killed in the line of duty. Besides, the media had to face "unprecedented restrictions and forced closures' in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. The report, …
The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. The software major aol, which owns the browser now, will cease supporting after February 1. Users will not receive security or software updates after that date. In the mid-1990s, the browser was used …
>> Smoking has been banned in restaurants and cafes in France and Germany. Eight German states have ushered in 2008 declaring their pubs and restaurants smoke-free. The new ban is seen as a big cultural shift for France, where smoky cafes have long been the haunts of famous artists and …
Myanmar's military junta has dramatically raised the annual fee for tv satellite dishes, an apparent move to block the foreign news channels that beamed in global criticism of its recent crackdown on pro-democracy protests. An official at Myanmar Post and Telecom, the country's regulatory authority, confirmed as much. He said …
In a small room, in a modest, but well-maintained building in Central Cairo, a phone rings. The caller, a woman, suspects that her husband has been having sex with someone else. She is concerned that she might be at risk of catching hiv. The call that lasts no more than …
The environmental group Planet Ark is urging Australians to recycle their Christmas and New Year cards. This is the group's 14th year of card recycling and Australia's postal department has joined in the endeavour. It has distributed one million free envelopes that people can use to post their old cards …
www.greenbuildings.com How green is your home? Buildings, both in design and choice of materials, have significant impacts on environment. Much of the concern boils down to the use of energy. How much is used in in transporting building material ? Once the house is built, how much energy does it …
An international coalition, Stop Climate Chaos, rallied its troops in the uk "to save the planet and billions of people on it from the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate'. Activists raised their voices on December 8, hoping to be heard halfway across the world in Bali. A hundred activists marched …
Photographs supposedly showing a South China tiger in the wild have sparked a controversy. Chinese wildlife experts, officials, Internet users and media organizations have been drawn into a row over whether the tiger still exists in Shaanxi province. The drama began in October when a farmer supposedly snapped the tiger …
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of us $31.5 million to settle claims that they accepted online ads promoting illegal gambling. None of the three firms, however, acknowledged any wrongdoing. us authorities claimed the trio illegally accepted payments from online gaming firms between 1997 and 2007. …
>> Journalists were killed in unusually high numbers in 2007, making it the deadliest year for the press in more than a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists' end-of-year analysis. Worldwide, 64 journalists were killed in direct connection to their work in 2007
A tsunami museum, the first of its kind in India, has been opened at Alappad village in Kerala's Kollam district. It aims to educate people about the risks of tsunamis and to commemorate those who died on December 26, 2004. The museum was set up at a cost of Rs …
On the first anniversary of a historic court judgment, the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana President Festus Mogae, detailing the ways in which the government is still preventing them from returning to their ancestral land. On December 13, 2006, the Bushmen won …
Police in Tehran have raided more than 400 Internet cafes and other shops as part of a campaign against what they call inappropriate and un-Islamic conduct. Iranian state media quote the police as saying that in the past few days, they have closed down 25 Internet cafes and given warnings …
http://ewasteguide.info/ Did you know that the annual amount of waste generated from end-of-life electrical and electronic products is estimated to be a few million tonnes? And many predict that this will double in the coming decades? The data is alarming. At this site under review you can find much more …
In New Zealand, where I live, and in Australia, the pro- us media is today loaded with anti-Chinese propaganda. Only one metropolitan daily newspaper in New Zealand is not controlled by pro- us interests. It regularly exposes us propaganda. For example, it found that claims of formaldehyde contamination in Chinese-made …
