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
India
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Tobacco row
Upset over the issue of the plummeting prices of tobacco at state auctions, Andhra Pradesh chief minister (CM) Chandrababu Naidu severely reprimanded members of the industry. He even threatened to
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Worst hit
Lifting of curbs on rubber imports to affect small farmers
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Smart alien s relentless strike
SARS motivates researchers to redefine space invasion
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Taste of waste
How to make plants yield salt
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Parmjit Singh Sehra
Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole
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Rain check
The column width dedicated to rain in the mainstream print media has hit an all time high. A few days ago, television news reporters with that special ability to capture and re create frenzy planted themselves on Kerala s beaches, not chasing a vacation
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Puritanism will not cure AIDS
Union health minister Sushma Swaraj is brandishing a new poultice to wrap around the AIDS menace. It is a purifying prescription called abstinence . Don t have sex, you won t have AIDS. The health minister doesn t like the way AIDS prevention programmes
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A foreign vocabulary
Why are we, as a nation, so non serious about following through on actions? Is it the curse of a foreign language in which we act, but not think, that we pick up words and so believe the deed, too,
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Water, water everywhere...
But not a drop to drink. The heat wave has already killed more than a thousand people all over India. Taps in major metros are running dry. Water bodies are evaporating. Groundwater supplies are
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Playing truant
Karnataka still awaits rain