Dept braces up to check Kangra forest fires
With the onset of summer, the Forest Department in the district has geared up its machinery to check forest fires. Appropriate arrangements have been made in all forest divisions to create awareness
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Africa: The Mobile Phone App That Discovers Disease and Saves Lives
What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the World Health Organization's (WHO) Polio Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology is doing just that
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Versatile mobile apps help Kenyan farmers shape new future
When she wants to know what seed variety to grow, Josephine Mutuku would take up her smartphone, open an app and types in the name of the crop and its region of cultivation. Mutuku, 38, is a farmer
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Infectious diseases could be diagnosed with smartphones in sub-Saharan Africa
The review, published in Nature, outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing smartphones to diagnose, track and control infectious diseases
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Cabinet nod for policy to boost manufacturing of electronics
The Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a new policy to boost electronics manufacturing in the country, offering cheaper loan-financing rates as well as well as easier credit access to companies to achieve a local
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2018 mobile industry impact report: Sustainable Development Goals
The third edition of the Mobile Industry Impact Report finds that the mobile industry’s impact has increased across all 17 SDGs, with mobile operators aligning activities with the SDGs and integrating
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Somalia economic update, August 2018: rapid growth in mobile money-- stability or vulnerability?
<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/ Somalia Economic Update.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/download.jpg" style="width:
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Mobile phone radiation may affect memory in teens, worrying study reveals
Radiation from your mobile phone may affect your memory, a worrying new study has revealed. Researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have looked at the relationship between exposure
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Global findex database 2017: measuring financial inclusion and the fintech revolution
The Global Findex database is the world's most comprehensive set of data on how people make payments, save money, borrow and manage risk. Launched in 2011, it includes more than 100 financial inclusion
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World’s first microfactory to help tackle e-waste hazard
It can turn glass, plastic and timber into commercial materials and other products An Indian-origin scientist in Australia has launched the world’s first microfactory that can transform the components