Development news of orissa and India

Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which objections were raised by the petitioners.

Meanwhile, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft told the court that they have no role to play in the case and there is no cause of action against them in the matter.

Additional Civil Judge Praveen Singh also posed a query to the counsel, appearing for petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, as to whether the blog service-providing companies can be made a party to the case for any content posted by the users on the blogs.

The Court has asked all the 22 social networking websites to file written statements in 15 days. The next hearing in the case will be on 1st of next month.

On December 20 last year, the Court in an ex-parte order issued summons to 22 social networking websites asking them to remove anti-religious or anti-social content in the form of photographs, videos or text which might hurt religious sentiments.

The main objective of this conference is to bring scientists, teachers, researchers, economists, managers and policy makers from around the world on a single platform to discuss various aspects of climate change, sustainable agriculture and public leadership and develop a consensus containing a set of valuable recommendations, as a way forward for addressing the issues related to the future climate scenario, Indian agriculture and food security.

According to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and World Meteorological Organization, climate change can adversely impact global environment, agricultural productivity and the quality of human life. More importantly in developing countries, it will be difficult for farmers to carry on farming in the scenario of climate change. Developing countries, India in particular, are vulnerable to climate variability and climate change as farming depends largely on the variability of rainfall. Fluctuations in areas planted to arable crops and annual yield are directly related to climate conditions and notably to rainfall and rainfall pattern.

The knowledge and understanding of implications of climate change at the national level is inadequate and fragmentary. International efforts to address the issue of climate change began with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. The importance and significance of the vulnerability of natural and human systems to climatic changes and adaptation to such changes is increasingly being realized.

Apart from different national organizations, several international organizations like ICRISAT, FAO, IFAD, ICARDA and expert from Morocco, Kenya, Syria, Canada, USA, UAE and Singapore are expected to take part in the Conference.

Five more rapid response teams have been engaged for creating awareness among the people in Bhubaneswar. The culling operation has been launched a day after the Odisha government received an advisory from the Centre to eliminate poultry birds at the CPDO farm and three km radius area around it.

The operation is likely to be completed in three days. H5N1 virus was reported at the farm after culling took place at Keranga in Khordha district and Betanati in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha last month. CPDO had sent samples to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal, which confirmed the detection of bird flu virus.