If you want to know about the latest environment news log into www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in. You are also likely to get information on how to install a solar water heater and even waste management. The portal is an initiative of the National Knowledge Commission (nkc) and the Centre for Science and Environment.

>> The Bihar government will set up a community radio station, the first for farmers in the state. Decks have been cleared for setting up the community radio station following clearance by the central government and approval of funding for it. Bihar

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers' historical archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the newspapers' own Web sites, the company said.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org A person clicking on to www.biodiversitylibrary.org should be excused if he/she doesn

Some women in countries where abortion is restricted are using the Internet to buy medication enabling them to abort a pregnancy at home, according to a bbc report. The report says that women in more than 70 countries where abortion is illegal have used the services of the website www.womenonweb.org. The site posts the drugs only to countries where abortion is heavily restricted,

>> The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to the media giant Viacom and other copyright holders after a US court directed it to submit its database to Viacom. >> Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has come under pressure for their continued sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics, with activists

www.echoinggreen.com With climate change and global warming looming large on us, green business is the new buzzword. This site would be useful for those who intend to go along this trend. Run by an US organization, also called Echoing Green, the site says

NEW DELHI: Intel Corporation on Tuesday unveiled Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops, powered by five new Intel Core2 Duo processors.
Close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs are on the way, including those equipped with the right combination of powerful processors, graphics and battery life to enjoy stunning high definition videos and myriad other computer and Internet activities. Intel also introduced the world's highest performing dual-core mobile processor.

The virtual world of secondlife.com is serious business. Last month steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, ceo of ArcelorMittal, held a regular shareholders" meeting in Luxembourg and linked it with the digital continent. The meeting was held to give shareholders an opportunity to meet and talk to Mittal. Avatars in secondlife could see in streaming video ArcelorMittal chairman being interviewed and

>> Now the people of China can directly interact with their president without going through the trouble and complex procedure to meet him. Chinese President Hu Jintao has made himself available online to chat with citizens through a major news portal of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The tech savvy president also has an account in the social networking website, Facebook. >> The