Srinagar, October 11, (Scoop News)- J&K State Government has decided to provide relief of Rs. 450 per kanal for irrigated land and Rs. 225 for non-irrigated (rainfed) land as a cost of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides to those farmers whose crops were damaged in recent devastating floods in the State. This was stated by the […]
6000 border migrants shifted to 16 Relief Camps in view of heavy shelling by Pak
Kathua, October 08, (Scoop News)- District administration, Kathua, has established 16 relief camps where more than 6000 migrants from 43 border villages have been shifted in view of heavy shelling across International Border in Hiranagar sector. Early evacuation was started last evening to save guard the people. A number of meetings were organised in various […]
JK CM reviews pace of relief, rehabilitation measures
Srinagar, September 27, (Scoop News)- J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is daily monitoring relief and rehabilitation measures at the high level review meetings was informed in today’s meeting that more than 6.50 lakh quintals of rice has been released for free distribution to people in the Valley so far. Of this, 80000 quintals have […]
Knox and Sollecito: Dissection of a conviction
Introduction I am personally a firm supporter of Knox and Sollecito’s innocence, it should be known by now, but however I state it here again for all the readers who may be new to the case. I am also Italian-born and have always lived in Italy except for short periods abroad, so when I write […]
A nonsensical pile from Nencini (viz a Nonsencini)
David C Anderson Let me start with a truism. At two extremes of humanity lie good people and bad people. There are also mixtures of both, and stupid people who just believe what they read in the papers. The same goes for institutions, and professions. But even within a good institution or profession or organisation […]
Big Corporations are the Problem with Big Data
Everybody’s going on about big data these days, from the Guardian’s Sustainable Business podcast (http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/big-data-sustainability-podcast) to the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xXga2LUN) to AT&T (http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/t-big-data-shape-tv-creative/292313/). IBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day and 90% of all the information in the world was created over the last two years (http://www.carbontrust.com/news/2013/10/big-business-big-data-big-sustainability). Le Monde declares […]
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