How will the earth fare if the global average temperature rises by 4

Gandhinagar: Alarmed by the continued lag in human development index (HDI), especially due to gaps in health services, Gujarat government has decided to start online monitoring of rural families in order to find out existing lacunae in controlling high levels of infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR).

Richard Black

Climate scientists at a top U.K. research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticised. The Independent Climate Change Email Review was set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA) after more than 1,000 e-mails were hacked from its servers.

KOCHI: The world's first electronic book on agriculture, The Agronomy and Economy of Important Tree Crops of the Developing World, compiled by K P Prabhakaran Nair, has been chosen to be kept in the British Library in London and the Congressional State Library in Washington.

Tiger conservation in the Manas Tiger Reserve will now get help from the cyberworld with the development of a web-based Geographical Information Software on the world-famous nature park bordering Bhutan Himalayas.

Guwahati: Tiger conservation in the Manas Tiger Reserve will now get help from the cyberworld with the development of a web-based Geographical Information Software on the world-famous nature park bordering Bhutan Himalayas.

India will soon join an elite league of countries, including Australia and Canada, where investors can get data on free mineral blocks at the click of a mouse and apply online for mining rights.

M. Dinesh Varma

Through online mapping of epidemiological data

Two-year project is funded by the

IT Ministry

The software will also be designed to generate mobile alerts

CHENNAI: An IT Ministry-funded project is under way to help health administrators frame emergency responses to outbreak of swine flu and other vector-borne diseases through online mapping of epidemiological data.

Mumbai Starting this World Environment Day, you can plant a tree and green the planet with a click of the mouse. Pradip Shah, the managing director of credit rating agency Crisil, has launched www.grow-trees.com

Pune Thanks to a website launched by a software engineer from Phursungi, the plight of farmers due to garbage dumping in the village has now attracted global attention. The website was launched by Zaheer Inamdar, a son of a farmer from the village, to bring to the fore the hardships of villagers.

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