Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
What is the nature of the changes you propose? So far the targets set by the telecom bodies are primitively low. I want them to accept as high targets as the market demands. Does the country need much higher targets? Let me give you an example. Currently our target in …
IN A CONTROVERSIAL move, the Union ministry of nonconventional energy sources (MNES), has decided to establish a Rs 382 crore, 35 MW solar thermal power plant near Jodhpur in Rajasthan, even though earlier solar thermal units in the country have been beset with problems and found to be prohibitively expensive. …
FOR MANY a woman, the prelude to her menstrual period is depressing -- she suffers from a strange melancholy, marked by symptoms like anxiety, petulance and lack of concentration. Until recently, all such symptoms -- 150 in all -- were clubbed under the term premenstrual syndrome (PMS), but no single …
SOLAR thermal technologies concentrate sunlight and convert the sun's heat into electricity. In these systems, solar reflectors concentrate sunlight onto a receiver, which contains liquid. The heated liquid drives a turbine, producing electricity with an overall efficiency of about 20 per cent. An array of collectors that collects 5 KW …
THE recent locust attack has made India and Pakistan suspend their rivalry and launch a large-scale joint operation along their border between Punjab and Sindh. "This is a common problem. We'll have to face it together close to border areas," said Zahid Saeed, Pakistan's acting foreign secretary. The country's cotton …
ALLEGATIONS of illegal practices in the prawn trade in Chilika -- Asia's largest brackish water lake -- have been confirmed by a five-member 'fact-finding' committee set up by the Bhubaneswar High Court. The committee was set up in response to writ petitions filed by three primary fisherfolk cooperative societies challenging …
The US government's paranoia over nuclear proliferation has led it to ban the transfer of its fertiliser plant technology to India, according to reports published in the beginning of September. The US government spokesperson says the technology may be diverted to manufacture of heavy water or deuterium oxide (D2O) -- …
SCIENTISTS have discovered a gene that could make a person more prone to developing Alzheimer's disease -- a brain disorder that induces premature senility -- after the age of 65. The suspected gene codes for a protein that transports cholesterol through the bloodstream and researchers have found abnormally high levels …
INDIA AND China signed an ecology pact on September 7, during Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's visit to Beijing. "The two countries have several common environmental problems, which can be solved only by formulating joint programmes and regularly exchanging information," explains Sandeep Kumar of the ministry of external affairs. …
A GROUP of Japanese companies has developed a robot that can wash and wax 2,000 sq metres of floor in an hour. The machine is first guided around the area to be cleaned, after which it memorises the cleaning route and then automatically washes or waxes the floor, stopping only …
Wildlife officials recently disclosed they had confiscated a 100 kg consignment of the wool of the endangered Tibetan antelope in June. The contraband, which was seized in New Delhi, had been smuggled in from Nepal. Authorities estimate 2,000 kg of the wool was smuggled into Leh and Srinagar last year, …
SWEDISH doctors have developed a painkilling device that can be implanted into the spine to relieve patients suffering from angina pectoris -- pain in the chest brought on by exertion and caused by inadequate blood supply to the heart. Clas Mannheimer and his team from Gothenburg claim the device enables …
The successful completion of all launch preparations for the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) did much to dispel the shadow of gloom in the Indian space establishment, cast in July by the US forcing Russia to withhold transfer of cryogenic technology to India. In a more cheerful mood than he …
TIRED of waste paper baskets full of photocopied waste? Now, you can reuse those sheets of paper, thanks to a machine that erases clean photocopied documents. But Ricoh Co of Japan, which has developed the erasing technique, say their copy eraser is still at the prototype stage. To reverse the …
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Supercomputers can do in a matter of hours what hundreds of ordinary computers would take months to do. In fact, supercomputers perform tasks considered virtually impossible for ordinary computers. The first supercomputers had large memory capacities and performed complex computations using vectorisation software. In vector processing, mathematical equations are solved …
ALTHOUGH the VR concept is almost three decades old -- it began with flight simulators -- it is only in the last two years that technology has become cheap enough for it to be exploited as a form of entertainment. The VR user dons a helmet that cuts off all …
Why do you oppose Dimri's appointment as the GSI head? The activities of the GSI are such that the predominant science is geology. Other sciences such as geophysics play a supportive role. And, Dimri is not even a geophysicist. His discipline -- Instrumentation -- is supportive only to geophysics. Can …
GOVERNMENT involvement in urban waste management in India is limited and includes sharing the subsidy component for low cost sanitation for the economically weaker sections, imposing a 20 per cent duty on import of garbage and setting up of water supply and sewerage boards. This woefully inadequate effort is supplemented …
"Our first supercomputer, PARAM, represents the potential India has in high-tech areas, especially in terms of skilled, dynamic humanpower," says N Vittal, former secretary in the department of electronics. "But let us not forget there is a big shadow between potential and full realisation." These skilled and dynamic professionals have …
