Chennai: Melting Himalayan glaciers and other climate change impacts pose a direct threat to the water and food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, according to preliminary findings of a new study financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Ludhiana: Punjab alone can rescue the entire nation from food crisis emerging out of the negative state of monsoon. This was stated by Harish Chander, President, Food Corporation of India Officers Association of Punjab (FCIOA) and Regional Manager, FCI, here today.
Prasenjit Chowdhury With nearly a fourth of its 1.1 billion popu-lation hungry, India indeed is the world
Ajay Modi / New Delhi August 06, 2009, 0:20 IST The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has brought together 20 countries, including China, Brazil and India, through a portal where food and agricultural policy makers will exchange their food-related problems and the measures adopted to tackle them.
Insufficient rainfall has cast a long shadow of drought on the various districts of the state with CPI-M backed farmers
Samudra Gupta Kashyap Over 10,000 people, all tribal inhabitants of Phungyar subdivision in Manipur
SARAH BOSELEY Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily. Heat waves
AIZAWL, May 17: Food scarcity has hit Mizoram as rice, the staple food of the state, could not be transported through trains due to militancy in neighbouring Asom, official sources said here.They said that train services in Asom were disrupted following recent attacks on trains by suspected Dimasa rebels on the Lumding-Badarpur sector, causing erratic supply of rice at Mizoram
Noeleen Heyzer Despite the region
Ring-a-ring-a roses, a pocket full of posies; ashes, ashes!
