First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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The terror next time?
Among one of the many warnings often American think tanks and government agencies in recent years, a report released last December by the CIA's National Intelligence Council concluded baldly that,
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Florida virus developed 50 yrs ago : Sleuths
US investigators probing anthrax infection cases in south Florida have come tot he conclusion that the deadly bacteria was of the crude kind, made in laboratories and not of natural origin, reports
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Surgery will give 15m blind vision
India has a dubious distinction of having the largest number of "needless" blind in the world. Doctors feel out of approximately 18 million blind people living in the country about 15 million can be
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Brain fever : 4 more hospitalised
Four more people have been admitted to the hospital for brain fever thus taking the toll to 29 in Bellary. Out of the four admitted, two are from Bellary and one each from Hosapet and Siraguppa
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Asbestos units under scanner
The Centre has set up an expert committee to formulate a long term policy to deal with the asbestos sector. The joint secretary, ministry of environment and forests Mr V Rajgopalan has been appointed
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Administration apathetic even as Dengu spreads
Inspite of constant warnings the district administration has not taken any steps to check the spread of dengu. One more child died of the disease in New Delhi where he was taken for treatment. The
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20 fall ill after taking contaminated water
Twenty people residing in Swamy Dayanand Nagar and Subhanpura slums behind Gandhi bhavan in Nampally (Hyderabad) took ill on Saturday after they drank contaminated water, according to
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Govt rules out anthrax outbreak
Allaying apprehension of an anthrax outbreak in Tamil Nadu, the Government today asserted that not a single case of the disease caused by bacterial infection had been reported in the past few
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City kids in grip of type-1 diabetes
Leading doctors and specialists are alarmed over the increasing number of child diabetics in Bhopal. These doctors are unable to detect the exact reason for the sudden spurt of the disease among the
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Anthrax struck H D Kote tribal settlement two years ago
A natural form of anthrax, the most suitable agent for biological terrorism, was reportedly noticed at the Hosahalli tribal settlement attached to N Begur forest reserve in H D Kote taluk of Mysore