Report filed by the Telangana State Pollution Control Board with the National Green Tribunal regarding state pollution control boards in south of India not complying with the direction given by the Supreme Court (Parayavaran Suraksha Samithi Vs Union of India) - wherein the states where directed to make provision for …
On November 10 more than 70 websites in the UK defied police rulings to issue guidance to student protesters on avoiding arrest. The protests that began in early November against a hike in university tuition fees have been described by the media as the country’s most intensive student upsurge in …
Google Maps is tangled in a border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. According to the Costa Rican press, misrepresentation of the country’s northeast around the river San Juan by Google Maps encouraged former Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Eden Pastora to conduct a river dredging operation in the disputed territory. Pastora …
MULOMEDIC, gelicide, blateration. Chances are your word processor would underline them with a red squiggle. They are, however, three of the offerings at Save The Words. The project was launched by Oxford Dictionary to rescue obscure words. The website lets you “adopt” words and keep them alive. The adoption contract …
Thiruvananthapuram: A portal on energy resources, developed and maintained by Binu K. John, Assistant Librarian, Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Technology, Thiruvananthapuam, is one of the recipients of this year's Energy Conservation award instituted by the Energy Management Centre. Electricity Minister A.K. Balan who announced the awards here last …
“DIGESTED sludge from modern plants. If used with circumspection. Gives answers to our prayers and chants. For plant food or perfection.” These are lines from Ode to Sludge. The 925 compositions by American poet F M Veatch are among a host of poetry dedicated to sanitation on the site. Then …
Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei had to leave the country for protesting child executions. In the Islamic Republic children are publically executed, though they cannot vote till they turn 16. Ten-year- old girls are sentenced to death for having sex. In many of these cases the young girls are silent victims …
Social networking sites were blocked for a week in September by Eric Darr, the provost of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania. It was an experiment to gauge the influence of overpowering social media sites and analyse the effects they have on the psyche of the young. Some …
The website www.badplastics.com busts safety myths propagated in the market by the plastic industry. Many plastic products used in our dayto- day lives contain three extremely toxic chemicals, bisphenol-A (BPA), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and phthalates. These can cause hormonal imbalance, cancer, heart problems, behavioural problems in children and also affect …
CLIMATE change issues often get obfuscated in technical jargon. www.realclimate.org tries to demystify climate change mumbo-jumbo. The site contains work by prominent climate scientists for the public and journalists. It also attempts to provide quick response to developing stories and give the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The site …
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) that supports infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific region is finalising its new public communication policy. It faces a tough challenge: ensuring access to information to communities affected by the projects it funds. To meet this challenge, the bank will have to do away …
Oct. 5: To avoid graft in the implementation of the Nat-ional Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), e-muster olls will be launched for job seekers in the state from November 1. The implementation of NREGS has been facing a lot of criticism of graft ever since it was introduced a few …
Josh Halliday Google maps final corner of the planet as it launches Street View for Antarctica, Brazil and Ireland. A big bone of contention in many countries, Google's Street View mapping service on September 30 goes live in Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica, meaning Street View now has a presence in …
Facebook is under pressure to shift to renewable energy. In one of the web’s fastest growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace International says at least 500,000 people have protested the social networking site’s intention to run its new data centre on coal-generated electric power. The site announced in February this year it …
On August 31, hackers attacked the website of Russia’s Khimki Forest Defenders movement. The activists have been campaigning for more than a year to halt the destruction of a thick forest near Khimki town in Moscow Oblast—a Russian administrative division that includes the country’s capital. The forest is being destroyed …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 28, 2010, 0:58 IST Begins using TCS software for daily update of grain movement. Changing a 46-year-old system, the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the public sector grain procurement agency, has decided to go online to make operations more transparent. It has sourced software …
Pune Green Build Products, a city-based company that manufactures eco-friendly products used in the construction industry, launched its website on Tuesday. Shashank Paranjpe, MD, Paranjpe Schemes Constructions launched the website. The company, in particular, focuses on construction materials that save water. Using environmental pollutants such as fly-ash and bottom-ash, which …
In recent times, critics have questioned the Internet's utility. The net Luddities range from those who berate it for being an emporium of pornography to those who question the worldwide web's all pervasive influence on modern life. Nicholas Carr is among those who raise significant questions while criticising the Internet. …
In many parts of India photography shops touch up photographs to make the skin colour appear lighter. A marketing campaign by skincare company Vaseline is now urging Facebook users in India to make themselves appear fairer online. The company has launched software to promote its new skin-whitening cream. Facebook users …
