The working paper documents the pilot rural radio campaign, dubbed as 'Climate Change i-Broadkas Mo', implemented by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA) and the Philippine Federation of Rural Broadcasters (PFRB) in strategic regions of the Philippines from 2015 to …
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (trai) has put up a consultation paper on its website www.trai.gov.in. The paper seeks opinions for a new licensing policy on fm radio. Should licensing policy dictate broadcast content? What should be done to promote non-commercial and educational programmes …
Radio dish pieces which may have picked up some interesting evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence are on sale now. In 1977, search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programme was carried out by a huge Big Ear Dish at the Ohio State Radio Observatory, and it shot into fame when it picked up …
Radio revived Why limit your radio listening to national and local stations when there is a whole world of radio on the Internet? Thousands of radio stations around the world broadcast live to anyone with a fast connection to the Internet and the software to receive streaming audio. Some low-budget …
radio stations that sound almost as good as a compact disc could be with us soon. Broadcasters in Europe and Canada are already testing these high-quality digital broadcasts, but the special sets needed to receive them are so expensive that nobody is making them. Now, a British company has come …
a ground penetrating radar (gpr) developed at the Natural Environment Research Council (nerc), Wiltshire, uk, is finding diverse applications in environmental sciences. The radar transmits radio waves to build up a picture of structures underground. These waves detect echoes in the ground with the help of a receiver antenna and …
an old man of 92 just died in Bromsgrove in the English midlands. His death made frontpage news and his obituaries were long and fulsome, the way they should have been. Godfrey Baseley founded the British Broadcasting Corporation's ( bbc' s ) national radio serial called "The Archers", 45 years …
Arecibo, the world's most powerful radar and radio telescope, has been upgraded with new instruments. It has a 305-metre dish that is placed in the crater of an extinct volcano in Puerto Rico. Arecibo has been fitted with a dual-mirror system to collect and focus signals that come from the …
radios would receive digital broadcasting in several parts of the world that do not have access to the Internet. A large range of programmes would be available through a satellite network being developed by the us company World-Space Management Corp. The key to the programme is the large-scale production of …
Radio Sagarmatha. the first independent radio station in Nepal and the first community broad-casting station in South Asia. will start broad-casting its programmes by the end of June. Supported by UNESCO. the station will be run by a consortium of four NGOs -the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ). the …
Equipment stolen or mislaid is a constant cause for heartburn in large organisations. Newmark Tech nology, a UK-based security company, has now designed a radio tagging system to help companies keep track of computers and other valuable equipment. The system automatically tracks the tagged assets at distances up to 100 …
Branching outThe Tree of Life (TOL) is being rated as the most worthwhile thing on the web by biologists. Planted by the Maddison brothers of the University of Arizona, US, on the World Wide Web, the TOL is growing fast and far to reach institutions around the globe. The tree …
fishing for a livelihood in deep waters is replete with dangers. Every year, statistics of deaths at high seas only show an upward trend. With the development of a new communication device, however, by the rural electronics division of the Electronics Research and Development Centre (erdc), Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, fisherfolk …
MILLIONS of pounds will be spent in the UK over the next three years on a new generation of high-speed radio networks that will provide super- highway services directly in offices and homes. The systems mean that consumers and businesspeople can have access to the Internet and use high-speed digital …
Three producers of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio shall be camping in India in April to develop programmes on issues related to the environment. The programmes will feature the following themes: the state of the river Ganga, water scarcity and the damming of rivers in India and their impact …
The explosive growth in the use of cellular telephones is threatening the field of radio astronomy which investigates everything from the formation of galaxies to finding better ways of predicting earthquakes (Newsletter of the International Telecommunication Union, No 8). The warning came from the authors of the new Handbook on …
THE British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has made history by broadcasting what are thought to be the first radio programmes to be picked up in deep space. Two 15-minute news-and-current-affairs programmes in Spanish for the Americas, BBC Primera Hora (now BBC International) and Via Libre, were detected by a National Aeronautics …
BANGLADESH'S massive afforestation programme is fast becoming a people's movement. More than 60 million saplings were planted last year under the programme, partly funded by the UN Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation. According to official sources, a countrywide radio and television programme has been started to educate …
