India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be 'fair dealing' (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright.
What really went on at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen? Secret recordings obtained by SPIEGEL reveal how China and India prevented an agreement on tackling climate change at the crucial meeting. The powerless Europeans were forced to look on as the agreement failed.
Hindi Literature in Post Independent Period - Informative & researched article on Hindi Literature in Post Independent Period from Indianetzone, the largest free encyclopedia on India.
In the decentralized Indian Statistical System official statistics are available from different wings of the government both at the Centre and States/Uts. The Ministry of Statistics acts as the nodal agency for coordination and development of official statistics. It is proposed to develop the website of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation as a single point contact for accessing key official statistics on key indicators. It is also planned to provide access to data users to the large databases available from National Sample Surveys, Annual Survey of Industries, Economic Census etc to enable them critically analyze it derive findings from these databases. The National Data Warehouse set up by the Computer Centre uses advanced tools of Cognos Software for the design, development and deployment of the Data Warehouse.
Locally known as Rampal power project, a joint venture between India and Bangladesh, it has created tremendous resentment in the affected areas. In a chat with Nidheesh J. Villatt, Professor Muhammad says the project will destroy the Sundarbans. He says Indian and Bangladeshi big business would make a huge profit at the cost of the camaraderie between the people of two countries.
The high cost of surrogacy in Europe and the US means many Western women are outsourcing pregnancy abroad. Carolina, from Ireland, travelled to India to pay Sonal to carry her baby. The World Service's Your World followed the two women as they came to terms with the emotional costs of the surrogacy.
The Asian nation of more than a billion people is better known for software services and products, but what will it take to break into the hardware game?
The Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar owes its origin to a Social Contract between the Government of Orissa and the OJS (Orissa Jesuit Society). The Management of the institute is in the hands of a Governing Board, consisting of representatives from the Jesuit Society, Government of India, Government of Orissa and eminent industrialists and educationists.
On December 24, 1524, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, passed away. He was one of the most successful explorers in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
It is because his own Party stopped taking Gandhi seriously that most young people in India grow up thinking of him as a pious crank, used only as a meaningless icon, writes Madhu Purnima Kishwar. (India Together (IT) is an electronic publication devoted
"his sexual hang-ups caused him to carry monstrously sexist views" - kolumnisten Connellan, som bl a hävdar , att G godkände hedersmord, citerades av Sven Strandén i Radio Vega 11.2.