News media are major channels for the transmission of information to the public and deliver news about the latest developments regarding health issues such as climate change. How the media frame such information may enhance public understanding and enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities. This study follows up on …
News media are major channels for the transmission of information to the public and deliver news about the latest developments regarding health issues such as climate change. How the media frame such information may enhance public understanding and enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities. This study follows up on …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arvind V. Aswal Ors.Vs M/s Arihant Realtors Ors. dated 13/01/2014 regarding construction of the Residential cum Commercial Project, under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority’s Development Scheme, Maharashtra. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/judgment/77_2013(Ap)(WZ)_13Jan2014_final_order.pdf
Freedom on the Net 2013 is the fourth report in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 60 countries that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. Over 60 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jyoti Mishra & Ors Vs MoEF & Ors, And Rayons-Enlightening Humanity & Anr Vs MoEF & Ors, AndInvertis University Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 05/08/2013 regarding dumping of the Municipal Solid Waste at the National Highway -24 from …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rayons Enlightening Humanity Anr Vs MoEF Ors regarding dumping of municipal solid waste dated 25/07/2013.
SciDev.Net partnered with the London School of Economics (LSE) and Museu da Vida (Brazil) to examine science communication around the world: journalists' background, workload, and opinions on science communication, work environment and capacity building needs. Also investigated the climate of opinion among science journalists and found no evidence for a …
Insects are the pre-eminent form of metazoan life on land, with as many as 1018 individuals alive at any one instant and over three-quarters of a million species described. Although it is estimated that there are as many as 14,000 species that are blood feeders, only three to 400 species …
MONTHS before its expected date of becoming operational, the Koodankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district has earned the ire of people living nearby. On August 15, three gram sabhas passed resolutions asking for its closure. About 60,000 people live within 10 km of the 2,000 MW plant, …
The cameras have been switched off. The microphones have fallen silent. But the cacophony generated by the saturation media coverage accorded to the agitation led by Anna Hazare for a Jan Lokpal Bill continues to ricochet. Questions are being asked, as well they should, not just about the extent of …
South Africa’s advertising watchdog ordered oil giant Shell on July 13 to withdraw its claims in newspapers about its use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to explore gas in the Karoo, a semi-desert wilderness. The Advertising Standards Authority described the adverts as “misleading”. Activist body Treasure the Karoo Action Group …
Chhattisgarh’s tribal population is beginning to get a taste of free press. They have a news service that informs them about events that concern them but rarely find mention in the mainstream media because of the state’s Special Public Security Act of 2005. The law operates as a gag order …
Media activists in Macedonia accused the country’s government of crackdown on free speech after police raided the country’s biggest private television channel, ostensibly on financial grounds. On November 25, a large contingent of riot police accompanied tax inspectors to the headquarter of A1 Channel in Skopje, insisting they were investigating …
Government pressure forced the Tajik-language political weekly Farazh to shut down in the first week of October. On November 12 the weekly was back on stands as part of a joint publication with the Russian-language weekly Fakty i kommentarii. But the paper’s new lease of life could be short. Tajik …
ABBC memo was leaked out recently; an e-mail written by Jon Williams, BBC world news editor, to his staff. According to the contents of the e-mail, BBC’s coverage of the Chile miners rescue operation has gone way over the agreed budget. The costs of newsgathering in Chile are likely to …
In an 1895 lecture at England’s Royal Society, historian John Dalberg Dalton lauded the democratic impact of the printing press. According to Dalton, print “gave assurance that what was written would be accessible to all, suppression of knowledge and ideas would never recur”. Most historians concur with Dalton: print has …
A dramatic frontpage splash has turned into a nationwide debate on press freedom in Venezuela. On August 12, El Nacional newspaper, openly opposed to President Hugo Chavez, ran a photograph of a dozen bodies at a morgue in Caracas under a headline about deteriorating security in the oil producing country. …
Aveteran Panaman journalist who was arrested for an article he wrote 12 years ago was released after spending 19 days behind bars. In 1998, Carlos Nuñez wrote about a polluted river in the western province of Chiriqui. "I am here for having defended a river of the Baru volcano, for …
Amore-than-a-centuryold Brazilian daily has become the latest in the long line of newspapers that will only have an Internet edition. From September 1, Jornal do Brasil will discontinue its print edition, Nelson Ta nure, the owner of the 119-year-old newspaper, said on Wednesday. Published from Rio de Janeiro, the once-influential …
