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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Is Orissa prepared for disaster?
In October 1999, two cyclones devastated coastal Orissa, leaving nearly 30,000 dead in 14 districts. Immediately after, the Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (osdma) was formed. So why is it
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Edusat will educate
But how?
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Unwelcome arrival
The 106-metre long Veronica, one of the world's biggest trawlers with three factories on board, is heading for Australia. However, gauging the popular reaction, not everyone is enthusiastic about
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Why is the leader not leading?
The Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT), owned by the Thapar Group, is the biggest pulp and paper company of India with an annual production capacity of 0.56 million tonnes. It alone makes up 9 per
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Keeping up the tradition
Two hundred thousand traditional medicine practitioners of South Africa will be officially recognised as health-care professionals. So says a new legislation passed on September 9. According to
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Meat of the matter
After dolphin-friendly tuna now we have cheetah-friendly beef. The Cheetah Conservation Fund (ccf), a supposedly conservation-oriented group, has begun hardselling this product from Namibia; it is
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Tree cheers
For the first time, scientists have compiled a database of gene sequences in a tree. Comprehensive research on trees is a difficult affair given their long lifespan and complex genetic make-up. This
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No safety in numbers
Between Latin America, Middle East and Asia, there are 20,000 tonnes of pesticide poisons waiting to be treated. But the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (fao), which helps clear-up
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Dead end
World heritage site, the Keoladeo National Park of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is known to attract aquatic birds from all over the world every year. This year, however, the nests are all empty, and the
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Foreign made welcome
But India s health care system has little space for indigenously developed biotechnology