BSNL to buy one slot of 700 Mhz spectrum The Times Of India BARCELONA: In order to strengthen coverage, state-run telecom operator BSNL is interested in buying 5 MHz spectrum in premium 700 MHz band in at least six service areas. BSNL though will not be participating in the auction. Instead, it will ask government to keep one slot reserved for it and will pa...
Decline of bees poses potential risks to major crops, says UN The Guardian Animal pollination responsible for 5-8% of global agricultural production by volume, says UN biodiversity panel, as it issues warning over their decline | Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world cr...
Taking ecommerce to the next step Dawn MARYLOU ANDREW: How long have you both been in the business of digital and e-commerce? | UMAIR AZIZ: Creative Chaos has been in business since 2000 and we are a digital and tech company. Sixty percent of our business is with US based customers; withi...
Budget 2016: Government loves start-ups, but cautious about showing it DNA India --> | Bhaskar Majumdar, managing partner, Unicorn India Ventures | The finance minister (FM) rose to present the Union Budget 2016-17 and along with it rose my heartbeat. In the run-up to the Budget, the investor community was hopeful about getting t...
Bees and other pollinators at risk Otago Daily Times Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries and coffee worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, the first global assessment of pollinators shows. | Pesticides, loss of habitat...
Islands in focus: Three nabbed for trading protected primates Jakarta Post The Riau Police’s special crimes investigation directorate has seized nine protected primates from the Pasar Palapa animal market on Jl. Durian, Pekanbaru, and arrested three people who allegedly traded the endangered animals. | The three traders w...
Govt to revise wildlife law as protected animals face extinction Jakarta Post After the deaths in rapid succession of Sumatran elephants and other protected animals over the past few years, the government and the House of Representatives have agreed to revise the natural resources conservation law to place heavier sanctions on...
Boost to farm sector after two years of drought Deccan Herald The Budget that was presented by the finance minister is to be analysed in the backdrop of the Economic Survey that preceded the Budget and the expectations different stake holders had about the Budget. On the performance of the agricultural sector, ...
Startups game for tax sops, expect incentives Deccan Herald Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in this year’s Union Budget has ratified some of the ‘Start-up India Stand up India’ announcements. | And, within the startup community, entrepreneurs and investors included, the mood remains rather pe...
Apple bites back to keep the feds away The Examiner Last week Apple filed a motion to vacate a US magistrate judge’s order to force the iPhone® geeks to work with the FBI to write new software to defeat its own security protocols to open the San Bernardino terrorist's work phone. The latest legal b...
BSNL plans to buy one slot in 700 MHz band to strengthen coverage Indian Express In order to strengthen coverage, state-run telecom operator BSNL is interested in buying 5 MHz spectrum in premium 700 MHz band in atleast six service areas. | BSNL though will not be participating in the auction. Instead, it will ask government to k...
Updated: Chromecast TechRadar Introduction and overview | Update: Chromecast might come standard in your next TV, if a new report is to be believed. Word on the street is that Google will partner up with Vizio first to pack "Chromecast-like" functionality straight into the TV. | ...
U.S. Sugar Corporation and the Charles Stuart Mott Foundation Huffington Post 1300 miles separates Flint, Michigan where mostly poor African Americans have been exposed to toxic amounts of lead in drinking water, and Clewiston, Florida -- home of US Sugar Corporation. The distance is nothing to the descendants of Charles Stewa...
Appeals court upholds designation of polar bear habitat Business Insider ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service followed the law when it designated more than 187,000 square miles — an area larger than California — as critical habitat for threatened polar bears in Alaska marine waters and its nor...
Decline of bees poses potential risks to major crops, says UN The Guardian Animal pollination responsible for 5-8% of global agricultural production by volume, says UN biodiversity panel, as it issues warning over their decline | Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world crops, a UN body on biodiversity said Friday. | “M...
