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BY YOJNA GUSAI
NEW DELHI

Even stringent laws and a recently constituted bureau dedicated to check wildlife crimes, it seems, cannot deter country's wildlife smugglers from trading in endangered wildlife. In a first of its kind case for Indian authorities, two men have been arrested who had hit upon a rather clever way to smuggle endangered species

NEW DELHI: A portal on environment and development designed and built by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), with support from the National Knowledge Commission, was launched here on Monday.

A one-stop shop for all information and resources, the India Environmental Portal will enable the flow of easy-to-use information from sources across the country and make it available in the public domain.

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launching websites may become cheaper with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann) deciding to expand domain names from .com and .org to anything after the dot.

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Sina.com, one of the most popular online destinations in China, has launched an English-language website to meet the global demand for news about the recent earthquake in the country. The news

www.commondreams.org POLITICIZING the InterNET The people who run this site say, "We are committed to being on the cuttingedge of using the Internet as a political organizing tool

The potential impact of climate change over the next century has now been mapped. An animated map of the earth from space illustrating the impacts can be