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The article examines the paper industry in India as of July 2014 with regards to its impact on forests. The paper industry reportedly sources wood from farmers instead of forests after the government has restricted commercial plantations in forests, however the sector is still asking for forestland. Also explored are factors that drive the industry to demand forestland from the government.

The article discusses the handmade papers manufactured from organic waste in India. It states the grape paper made out of pomace developed by Adrian Pinto, founder of paper manufacturer Green Paper Works. It mentions the Haatchi Chaap paper made out of elephant dung, developed by Mahima Mehra of paper-making company Papeterie.

The article discusses low interests for undergoing business management research by over 4000 business schools operating in India. It mentions that only 36 research paper got published in leading journals between 2009 to 2012 which is far less when compared with business schools of other country. It reports lack of government funding as well as shortage of faculty members to be responsible factor for disinterest towards business research.

This article reports on the building of a bridge with a reference to the book of Roelof Schuiling, an engineer. A geochemist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Schuiling has spent 15 years developing an extraordinary construction technique that could see rock bridges, walls and dams sprout from the seabed, driven by the power of chemistry on an unprecedented scale. The project could even help to dispose of millions of tonnes of waste acid from India's chemical industry by locking it up in the fabric of the bridge. Earlier this year, Schuiling read a scientific paper that suggested placing wind turbines on the string of reefs and islands between Sri Lanka and India called Adam's Bridge.

The article focuses on Vaspar Green Technologies, a Bangalore firm which produces honeycomb paper. Though used in the West for packaging, M. S. Naren created a cheaper machine which manufactures the product using manual labor. The result is a material that can be used for furniture and low-cost housing as well, when reinforced with other materials. The company already has contracts with local companies and even Walmart to supply cheaper packaging. Prototype houses are available in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. Naren said all types of paper can be recycled.

The article examines the increasing demand for packaging paper in India with regards to its impact on the environment, dealing with topics including glossy packaging boards and wood as the main raw material for packaging.

The article focuses on the business opportunities brought by selling waste paper in India. Brief overview on the growth of the number of waste collection centers in the country and the success of the professional waste paper pickup service provider Raddi Express is provided. Information of several waste collectors who have established their own service in the paper waste collection is offered.

The article offers feedback from "New Scientist" readers on miscellaneous topics in the news as of May 3, 2014. Topics discussed include a report in the March 29, 2014 issue of "New Scientist" on the amount of toilet paper U.S. residents each use during their lifetime, a March 22, 2014 report by the news organization, the Associated Press, on the amount of human waste produced each day in India, and comments on the end of security support for computer company Microsoft's Windows XP system.

Researchers at the St. Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology in Punjab, India have developed sustainable food packaging paper made from rice straw nanocellulose materials. The paper has high barrier and strength properties and was created through a process of pulping and bleaching the rice straw. The researchers found that the nanofibers formed through this process were more economical than alternative methods and showed good strength and barrier properties. The barrier properties were further enhanced by surface sizing the paper with a low-cost, nontoxic, and biodegradable wax. This research has been peer-reviewed and provides valuable insights into sustainable food packaging materials. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that the demand for ferrous scrap has remained steady in India, while the demand for nonferrous scrap has increased as China closed its doors to imports of various recyclables from the U.S. and India has been one of the countries taking in more nonferrous and paper scrap.

The article highlights the goal of JK Paper to grow its export target and expand its distribution network across tier-II and tier-III markets. It highlights the achievements of JK Paper including its 50th anniversary of listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India and investment in its unit in Odisha to augment production capacities of uncoated paper. Also discussed are the business growth plans of JK Paper that include enriching the green cover through social farm forestry.

Comments on nuclear weapons tests conducted by India on May 11 and 13, 1998, questioning the verification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Devices which India tested on May 11; Information on United States Geological Survey results; Information on seismograph readings; Seismic data of the May 13 tests.

The article provides insights from Indian lighting designer Jenny Pinto on the lighting industry in India. Topics mentioned include the number of years of experience of Pinto in making handpaper lights, the growing recognition for paper as a material since 2005, and Pinto's thoughts on hospitality as a new and growing trend in India. Clients of Pinto's studio include Park Hotel, Pizza Hut, and Cafe Coffee Day.

The article covers various issues in India as of June 2009. Bodhi Art Gallery director Sharmishta Ray is showing the exhibition "Tracing Time," which features paperworks by Indian artists. Starting May 25, the young and committed dancers will perform at Unbound Beats of India festival at the Indian Habitat Centre. The Devarattam dance form is cited as one of the dance styles suffering from declining information and support.

The article reports on the stock market performance of India. It mentions that country's Nifty so and Sensex indices reached record highs at the end of November, and as to many fund managers desperate for diversification, India looks the most promising alternative. It also mentions that the central bank has been forced to raise interest rates in defence of the rupee impacting its domestic monetary policy.

Many nations have implemented policies to improve drinking water quality, but challenges arise from overexploited or contaminated groundwater-based sources. This paper aims at examining the aspects of water scarcity, security, and sustainability within an Indian village context. We attempt to compare two rural water supply sources in Nagla Chandi village in Uttar Pradesh, India: (a) untreated groundwater sourced from bore wells and (b) treated water from a reverse osmosis (RO) plant. We observed that subterranean minerals are the primary pollutants of unprocessed water drawn from borewells, which form the main source of drinking water. Even though water from the RO plant meets all the quality parameters of potability, frequent breakdowns of the plant due to improper management force the villagers to drink untreated water from the dug wells fitted with hand pumps, affecting their health. We also found a high incidence of water-borne diseases. The case analysis suggests enhancing village water treatment projects by training local artisans in system repair and increasing Panchayat staff to include trained engineers for technical advice and maintenance. The paper proposes reducing water testing cost in rural areas to make it possible Q4 for local organizations to regularly assess water quality and implement corrective actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the new self reproducing and inexhaustible source of cellulose which has been found in the bamboo forests of India and can be used for making paper, in place of wood pulp.

The article focuses on a white paper on black money presented by Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The author comments that the white paper does not provide any solution regarding black money and gives mere information related to generation of it. It also contains quotes by Salman Khurshid, Union Law Minister, Subramanian Swamy, National President of Janta Party and T.V. Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Universal Learning regarding black money.

A reprint of the article "Bihar: Leaked BSSC question papers were being sold for Rs 5 lakh apiece, shows probe" is presented.

The article offers information on the wealth out of waste (WOW) program launched by ITC Ltd. in India, in April 2007. It says that the program shows how inculcating a simple habit of segregating waste and increasing the level of recycling garbage can benefit a company, society, and the country. Households put solid wastes in a bag provided by the company, while kitchen and wet wastes are kept separately. After collecting the recyclable waste, WOW's team sends it to ITC's reprocessing plants.

Performers play a crucial role in the creative process by bringing various copyrightable subject matters, such as songs, dances, dramatic performances, and films (cinematographic works), to life. However, unlike other stakeholders, including lyricists, music composers, and production companies, performers often do not receive equivalent property rights. This paper contends that despite certain protections granted to performers under copyright laws in many countries, including India and Australia, there remain gaps and limitations that hinder the full recognition and protection of performers’ rights. This situation leads to questions regarding the nature of performers’ rights and how the law distinguishes neighbouring rights within the copyright law framework. The primary aim of this paper is to assess whether the existing framework of performers’ rights principally benefits the performers themselves or leans more towards a market-centred approach favouring producers. This analysis, particularly focused on the contexts of India and Australia, builds a case for the recognition of coauthorship rights for performers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the first newsprint mill in India in 1950 that will be powered by electric motor from Westinghouse Electric Corp.

The article reports that the Supreme Court of has directed the Election Commission to introduce a paper backup of votes cast through electronic voting machines. The commission submitted in the court that the machines could not be tampered with, but was still planning to introduce a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail system.

The article focuses on the persistent use of papers in government offices in India. Alok Bharadwaj, senior vice president at Canon India states that the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) contributes around 30% by its value and 40% by units to the printing economy. Moreover, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal says that they are conceiving paperless government having an electronic services (e-services) to reduce the use of papers, being wasted in government offices.

The article presents a case study which investigates the role of business intelligence (BI) in how the paper manufacturer BILT in India and Malaysia deals with inventory management problem. It says that BI provides 3-fold architecture that integrates multiple business functions within single database. Moreover, the solution helps the customer to avoid multiple data entry and eliminate system error. INSETS: Problem;Solution;Benefit.

The article presents information on a working paper which examined the state of manufacturing plants in India and Mexico. The authors found that the employment gap suggests that Indian and Mexican factories are not investing as much as their U.S. counterparts in terms of process efficiency, quality and in accessing foreign and domestic markets. They mentioned that a certain type of misallocation can discourage investments that increase plant productivity.

A review is offered for the Haziq and Mohi Rare Book Suppliers Buyers and Exports shop in Hyderabad, India.

The Swachh Bharat Mission-Rural (SBM-R) is a flagship programme aimed at ending open defecation in rural India. In this paper, we study institutions and processes using Amartya Sen's conception of justice. We review the outcomes by assessing agencies, actions and processes involved in the implementation of the SBM-R programme. The findings are analysed using the Sanitation Well-being Framework. Sanitation well-being is achieved when an individual is able to experience the sanitation life cycle stages of acceptance, construction, utilisation and maintenance of safe disposal, which are part of the framework. The capability factors grouped under personal, cultural, structural, environmental and service elements of the framework determine the sanitation environment facilitated by the state. Failure in experiencing one of the life stages leads to slippage in sanitation, where people resume open defecation, despite possessing toilets. The paper presents a review of literature on the political, technological and structural issues in programme implementation, followed by an analysis of 42 interviews and 12 focused group discussions of state and non-state actors conducted in rural Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh, India. We found that slippage is prevalent in the field site and identified 26 capability factors (expansion and constraints) that led to slippage in sanitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses documents released by India's military chief's on joint doctrine and subsequent criticism by military analysts.The critics say that the doctrine lacks clearly defined national security strategy and looses its effectiveness in the absence of implementation of key reforms that could help the ability of the army, air force and the navy to operate efficiently.Chief of Defence Staff is yet to be appointed which is a crucial problem for carrying out the agenda in the doctrine.

The article reports business developments in India. Three million people are employed in the diamond industry. The government is hoping to have one million carbon-free hydrogen vehicles to have on Indian roads by 2020. 148 million tons of cement were produced in 2006. 7.2 million tons is the total annual domestic demand for paper.

The article focuses on the conducting of examination for the class 10th and 12th students by the Central Board of Secondary Examination in India. Topics discussed include recent paper leak which turned into a political issue, forcing all students to re-answer that examination, effect of discontinuing the multiple set question paper method, and challenge of weeding out unscrupulous elements such as insider complicity, and reconsidering the distribution, storage and collection of answer papers.

This article explores the trends in computer science research in India from 2019 to 2022 based on research coming out of leading Indian technology institutes, including Chennai Mathematical Institute, Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Topics include research on automata theory, formal verification, computational complexity research, and Algorithms research.

In the present paper farmers’ resilience index (FRI) was constructed considering the natural disaster using five dimensions including physical, social, economic, human and natural. The scale is administered to the 240 paddy farmers in two coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. Principal component analysis was performed in order to fix the weightage for each variable. About (39.58%) of farmers are resilient to natural disasters with the highest resilience score for financial capital (0.641) and natural capital with less resilience score (0.401). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed to determine how well the generated model of the scale fits the data. The structural equation modelling (SEM) path diagram was developed based on the conceptual model, which uses resilience as a latent variable. The SEM analysis revealed that four dimensions of capital positively affect farmers’ resilience except for the human capital which negatively affects resilience. To reduce the effects of natural catastrophes in the upcoming years, the adaptation strategies from the highly resilient places can be examined and put into practice in the less resilient areas. It is imperative that development programmes at all levels incorporate climate awareness and stakeholder capacity building. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the crackdown on undocumented immigrants in India in 2019. The government has identified millions of people they consider foreigners who have no right to live in the country. Home minister Amit Shah announced plans to deport undocumented immigrants to Bangladesh. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to act on the influx of undocumented immigrants.

The article focuses on the security features in a Rs 500 note of India, which can help in identifying fake currency. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has estimated that the value of counterfeit Indian currency detected in 2007-2008 increased by 137 percent. The vertical band on the right side of a Rs 500 note contains a latent image of the denomination in numeral. In a genuine note, the numeral 500 in the centre is printed in color-shifting ink.

The article reports on the advisory from India's Union Public Service Commission that it would not issue paper permit cards for candidates in the 2015 civil services main examination and instead will instruct them to print out the e-admit cards.

The article reports that the Supreme Court has cancelled results of All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) paper which was held on May 3, 2015. Topics discussed include answer keys leaked by an organized gang, candidates picked up by Rohtak Police of Haryana, India for using cell phones in the examination, First Information Report (FIR) filed against three candidates from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, India and police investigation and verification of suspected mobile numbers under process.

The article offers information on the media barons Mahendra Mohan and Sanjay Gupta from India.

Access to improved drinking water and sanitation has been declared a fundamental right by the UN General Assembly. However, around 25 and 50% of the global population lacked access to safely managed drinking water and improved sanitation in 2020, respectively. India, the second most populous country in the world, has around 3.7 and 31% of its population without access to improved drinking water and sanitation, respectively. This paper explores the factors determining a household’s access to improved drinking water and sanitation in India, using India Human Development Survey (IHDS) II data. The results indicate that urban households with bigger family sizes, with fewer rooms, married but uneducated household heads, belonging to forward castes, were more likely to have access to improved drinking water. Similarly, households with married female heads, belonging to forward castes, small household sizes, older aged heads with primary education, from Non-EAG (Empowered Action Group) states, located in urban areas, earning higher incomes and having more rooms were more likely to have access to improved sanitation. Findings suggest subsidized improved water and sanitation services and an increase in public investment to make these facilities affordable for poor rural households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the issue regarding the positive net worth for April 2006- 2007 by the Dunlop India. Information revealed that Rs 151.82 crore had in positive net last 2006. The company had transferred its part to associate companies instead of selling the real estate assets to a third party including Dunlop Properties and Bhartiya Hotels. Moreover, Dunlop plans to develop Rs 400 crore through debt and equity.

The article reports on the plan of multinational Indian telecommunications services provider Bharti Airtel Ltd. To sell its mobile tower infrastructure network.