This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, …
Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Semipalatinsk, Palomares and Kyshtym? The world is full of nuclear disaster zones -- showing just how dangerous the technology really is. http://www.firstpeoplesfirst.in/admin/pdf/74_Atomic%20Deserts.pdf
Russia has lifted the ban on polar bear hunting for the first time since the erstwhile Soviet Union banned the practice in 1957, a move which has drawn flak from wildlife campaigners, a media report said. The governor of Russia
One day there will be thousands of volunteers out there patrolling the Internet in Russia. That is the dream of a new organisation launched in the first week of February, the League of Internet Safety. The league brings together the three major mobile service providers: Mobile TeleSystems, VimpelCom, and Megafon, …
Bangladesh Thursday initiated an agreement with Russia for installing a 2000 MW nuclear power plant at Rooppur in Pabna. Secretary to the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology Abdur Rob Howlader, and ICT and Deputy Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation, ROSATOM, Nickolay Spasskiy, initialed the deal …
Bangladesh Thursday signed a primary deal with Russia for installing a 2,000MW nuclear power plant at Rooppur in Pabna. By signing the deal, the government launched country
A Russian private company has offered the government to set up a 450 MW gas-based combined cycle power plant at Ghorasal Power Station and also to renovate some existing plants there converting those into combined cycle from simple cycle. A visiting delegation of the Moscow-based Engineering Centre UES came up …
The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) is a product development partnership (PDP) based at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Seoul, Korea, and is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. PDPs are nonprofit entities that seek to accelerate the development, evaluation, and introduction of vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, …
Uncertainty is growing over the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the first legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases blamed for warming the planet. Nearly 40 industrialised nations -- all except the US -- are meant to meet targets for emissions during the pact
In A Mock Mission, Crew Walk On A Simulated Red Planet Moscow: After 257 days in a locked steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters on Monday in heavy space suits, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red …
??Plans for undersea nuclear power reactors around the coast of France could see a boom in uptake of the technology - but serious questions about costs and waste disposal remain unanswered.
In an unprecedented response to the rapid decline in wild tiger populations, the Heads of Government of the 13 tiger range countries endorsed the St. Petersburg Declaration in November 2010, pledging to double the wild tiger population. We conducted a landscape analysis of tiger habitat to determine if a recovery …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch three satellites PSLV C-16, PSLV C-17 and Resourcesat-2 as well as a series of other communication satellites during the next year, said ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan. Speaking to Deccan Herald on the sidelines of IMTEX 2011, here on Thursday, he said the …
Last year tied for the warmest since data started in 1880, capping a decade of record high temperatures that shows mankind's greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet, two U.S. agencies said. Global surface temperatures in 2010 were 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit (0.62 Celsius) above the 20th century average, tying the …
MODIS hotspot data from NASA have now become a standard means of evaluating vegetation fires worldwide. Remote sensing is the most effective tool for large countries like Russia because it is hard to obtain exact, detailed forest fire data. Accumulated MODIS hotspot data of the nine years from 2002 to …
India and Russia have decided to work together in the field of nuclear commerce. The two countries will help set up smaller nuclear power plants in South Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, sources said. This, according to South Block sources, is a key outcome of Russian President …
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) grouping will become BRICS with the inclusion of South Africa, according to sources in the government. The third BRIC summit in China next year will see South African President Jacob Zuma present as an observer. Membership of the soon-to-be …
