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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
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India’s population to overtake China’s by 2028; can it leverage the advantage?
@bajpairavi Issue Date: Jun 15, 2013
India could become more populated than China by 2028, much sooner than expected, according to United Nations report titled World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, released this Friday.
The projected changes in the population demographics over this century once again underscore India’s potential manpower advantage over its rival Asian giant China. But can India overcome its growing challenges and seize its moment?
Environment Day special: ACmageddon
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
Soaring temperatures have made us AC addicts. With global sales growing by 18.5 per cent every year, running ACs is costing us the earth
Solar energy not war
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2013
If you know that a sector has arrived when it makes for trade wars between countries, then solar energy clearly has. Last year, the US imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of solar panels; now the EU has proposed the same.
Chaos in the iron age
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
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Bellary to bleed again
Goa next
Bellary case file
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Goa after mining ban
India granted 'observer' status in Arctic Council
Issue Date: May 16, 2013
India has been granted the status of an observer in the Arctic Council, an organisation of global nations that coordinates Arctic policy. With the melting of Arctic ice, new waterways are emerging, creating opportunities for countries to tap the region’s so far inaccessible resources. There is growing competition over the untapped oil, natural gas, minerals and fish resources of the region.
Forbidden country
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
It is one of the great ironies of China. May 1, marked worldwide by labour and socialist movements, should be a cause of celebration in the communist China. But it was not so on China’s popular website, Baidu. Ranked fifth most popular website in the world, above even Wikipedia, Baidu contains Google-like search features, discussion boards and a Wikipedia-style encyclopedia. One of its many functions is to allow users to start discussions around popular topics.
Emergence of South
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
RISE of the developing world, or the South, has resulted in a shift in the dynamics of the global market. This is the underlying theme of the 2013 Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Despite being low on human development index (HDI), a measure of health, education and income, developing countries like India and China have become strong enough to influence international decision-making on policies relating to trade and environment, claims the report.
India still scores low in human development in UNDP report
Issue Date: Apr 16, 2013
Over the past three decades, India has made good progress on the human development index (HDI), says the Human Development Report 2013, released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). However, India’s rank out of 187 countries is no better than last year’s.
With a HDI value of 0.554 and a rank of 136 among 187 countries, which it shares with Equatorial Guinea, India is placed in the “medium development” category. There has been steady improvement in its HDI value, which was 0.345 in 1980.
