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 the surface, it would be hard to think of two places with less in common than the US city of Pittsburgh and Iran. There are barriers of culture, language, religion and the longsimmering political conflict that dates back to the hostage crisis of 1979. That’s what the people who …
Misleading and inaccurate claims published by an Australian anti-vaccination campaign group pose a risk to public health, a government watchdog has ruled. The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), the health watchdog for the state of New South Wales, based in Sydney, issued the warning yesterday over information presented on the …
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday launched a youth portal under the Bhagidari scheme of the Delhi Government for channelising the energy of the youth towards the 11-point agenda of development envisaged for the Capital city by her. Speaking at the launch, Ms. Dikshit said the portal will …
P. Sudhakar www.tnagrisnet.tn.gov.in will clearly explain all welfare schemes Website to give information on the schemes, subsidies and farming programmes
Gandhinagar: Alarmed by the continued lag in human development index (HDI), especially due to gaps in health services, Gujarat government has decided to start online monitoring of rural families in order to find out existing lacunae in controlling high levels of infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR). …
Richard Black Climate scientists at a top U.K. research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticised. The Independent Climate Change Email Review was set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA) after more than 1,000 e-mails were …
KOCHI: The world's first electronic book on agriculture, The Agronomy and Economy of Important Tree Crops of the Developing World, compiled by K P Prabhakaran Nair, has been chosen to be kept in the British Library in London and the Congressional State Library in Washington. The Elsevier Academic Press-Macmillan combined, …
Tiger conservation in the Manas Tiger Reserve will now get help from the cyberworld with the development of a web-based Geographical Information Software on the world-famous nature park bordering Bhutan Himalayas. The software, titled Manas Tiger Reserve Information System or MANTRIS, was developed by a prominent conservation organisation, Aaranyak, in …
Guwahati: Tiger conservation in the Manas Tiger Reserve will now get help from the cyberworld with the development of a web-based Geographical Information Software on the world-famous nature park bordering Bhutan Himalayas. The software, titled Manas Tiger Reserve Information System or MANTRIS, was developed by a prominent conservation organisation, Aaranyak, …
India will soon join an elite league of countries, including Australia and Canada, where investors can get data on free mineral blocks at the click of a mouse and apply online for mining rights.
M. Dinesh Varma Through online mapping of epidemiological data Two-year project is funded by the IT Ministry The software will also be designed to generate mobile alerts CHENNAI: An IT Ministry-funded project is under way to help health administrators frame emergency responses to outbreak of swine flu and other vector-borne …
The Internet>> Addresses • Egypt Dominance of Latin characters in Internet addresses might soon end. On May 6, Egypt granted three companies approval to register names using the country’s new Arabic suffix. On May 13, Internet domains using the Cyrillic script were launched after Russia was officially assigned the .rf …
Mumbai Starting this World Environment Day, you can plant a tree and green the planet with a click of the mouse. Pradip Shah, the managing director of credit rating agency Crisil, has launched www.grow-trees.com
online activity>> Research • US Every person on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century. For analysts of digital communications this is a neat way of presenting the growth of the digital universe in 2009. Research estimates the digital universe grew by 62 per cent in 2009 to …
Pune Thanks to a website launched by a software engineer from Phursungi, the plight of farmers due to garbage dumping in the village has now attracted global attention. The website was launched by Zaheer Inamdar, a son of a farmer from the village, to bring to the fore the hardships …
Sandip Das New Delhi: A decade after launching the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) to export green products from India, the government is planning to launch a comprehensive web-based traceability software to trace operations from farms to consumers online. Named
Mobile is a rapidly growing and potentially major element of the future Internet, and its environment cannot be sensibly considered in isolation from fixed networks. A note on terminology: Europe uses the term Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) while the United States uses ‘wireless’ Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ‘Wireless’ is somewhat …
THERE is a missionary zeal about this website. Entrepreneurs are urged to take part in contests to save water. The winner gets $30,000 in cash. The inaugural 2010 Imagine H20 Prize for Water Efficiency was awarded to Fruition Sciences. The winning idea: a web application that alerts grape farmers when …
