Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill: Changes arrest, custody and remand procedure.
National Tax Tribunal Bill: Sets up tribunal for taxation issues.
Disaster Management Bill: To set up authority to deal with disasters.
Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill: Permits plea bargaining. Brings safeguards for witnesses.
* Agropedia, an open source encyclopaedia for agriculture, has been launched by the government (http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in)
* It disseminates information to farmers and enables sharing of knowledge amongst them
* The site is a follow-up to a-Aqua, an online agriculture Q&A forum
Rising sea levels are forcing people in low-lying areas to flee their homes
This new category of refugees is being called climate migrants
They are yet to gain any international legal recognition
However, resettlement of residents of islands such as the Maldives to safer locations is being discussed
The endemic western UP region, epicentre of all polio outbreaks, remained free of P1 for a record one-and-a-half years till mid-2008
Bihar recorded only 3 new cases of the P1 virus in 2008
New injectible polio vaccine (IPV) to be used to eradicate the disease
The gale of chatter during the current global meltdown has been mainly about the hardships in store for the corporate sector and middle classes. The voice of the poor is too feeble to have been heard in the din.
IF you are concerned about losing the battle against pollution, there's all the more reason to worry. The Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb), the national apex body, can hardly be called a regulator for tackling environmental degradation. In fact, it is "near-defunct". This extraordinary conclusion comes
On October 3, Mylswamy Annadurai, the mission director, Chandrayaan-1, is visibly tense. The spacecraft, moved out the previous day from the laboratories of the isro Satellite Centre in Bangalore, is being transported at 20 kmph by road to the spaceport in Sriharikota, some 300 km away. Annadurai is tense because a local newspaper has gone and splashed the picture of the convoy on its front page.
