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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GR on gutka ban by July 25
Minister of State for Home, Manikrao Thakare on Monday asserted that the Maharashtra State Government was serious over implementing its decision to ban the sale of gutka in the State and for this
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Paan shop owners up in protest
At long last, there is a word of protest from "paan shop wallahs" of the twin cities. Hit by ban on 'gutka' and smoking in public places, owners of about 28,000 paan shops in the city under the aegis
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Designer bacteria bite back against tooth decay
Brush your teeth after every meal. Floss regularly. And be sure to keep your teeth nicely coated with a film of genetically engineered bacteria. That is the advice dentists might offer if scientists
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The Bio Bazar is growing
The excitement of genetic engineers tinkering with microscopic life-forms at the laboratory level is one thing buy the escape of the newly created bio-matter into the environment is quite another,
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Dealing with the population explosion
Bangladesh is the world's ninth most populous country and its large and growing population is clearly running out of space. Despite the relative success of family planning programmes which have
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33 per cent suffering from Filariasis in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh about 33 per cent people have been suffering from filariasis, of whom about 21 per cent people have become disabled. The disease has been found in almost all the districts of
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Hunger to stalk world for 130 years : UNDP
In its annual Human Development Report 2002, the UN Development Programme(UNDP) said more than 40 countries with 28 per cent of the world's population are not on track to eradicate extreme poverty
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Indoor pollutants : threat to poor kids
A new Cornell university study has revealed that people in the low income households are more exposed to indoor pollutants than people in higher income homes. Researchers also say that a child in
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Panic 'took hold' as UK sought to deal with epidemic
The UK government was badly prepared for last year's foot-and-mouth epidemic, the world's worst outbreak of the disease in which 6m animals were slaughtered, an official inquiry concluded. The
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No room for denial
The world is on the brink of an AIDS pandemic of a size that is unimaginable yet we in Bangladesh still cling to the notion that AIDS is not only a minor problem for us but a virus like any other