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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Waiting to inhale
Afine haze of dust continued to envelope Delhi city, adding to the misery of residents already being roasted by the searing hot conditions gripping the region. For although the dust cover kept sun
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Mystery disease
The Mysterious disease that claimed the lives of 19 children in West Bengal's Murshidabad district has been checked and no new deaths have been reported, district magistrate Manoj Pant
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Kalam for mid-day meal in all States
President A P J Aabdul Kalam hoped that all the States would implement the mid-day meal scheme for students. Speaking to newspersons here after launching a new dimension of the Akshaya Patra
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Pardesi Punjabans
Of late, there have been reports of brides beign bought for Punjabi lads from the poor regions of West Bengal, Bihar, MP and Orissa. However, much of a national integration it may sound, an indepth
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After aeons, girls live here
The village which was infamous for female infanticide practice for centuries - particularly among the warrior community of Rajputs - is now scripting a new story. There was a time when you couldn't
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Anger over smoking ban
Under a new ban on smoking in public places, Dutch coffee shops would be allowed to continue selling joints, but customers would have to go outside to smoke them. To the chagrin of the owners of the
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Free health camps for truckers, migrant labourers held
Socio-Economic Development Organisation, an NGO has made commendable efforts to deal with HIV/AIDS under Trucker's Health Management Project in Tinsukia supported by Assam State AIDS Control Society,
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Glass syringe issue raise storm
Medical experts have expressed apprehensions over the Haryana government's move to retract to reusable syringes. Improper sterlisation can lead to serious implications, they have warned. Boiling
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War leads to birth defects
Children of veterans of the first Gulf War are mor likely to have three specific birth defects than those of soldiers whonever served in the Persian Gulf, an American study has found. Researchers
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Railways books 85 smokers on trains
After the Frontier Mail tragedy claiming 38 lives, the Vadodara division of the Western Railway has decided to take stringent measures against those caught smoking or carrying inflammable articles in