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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Learning from the Gujarat quake
It is more than two years since the terrible earthquake struck Gujarat. In this period the catastrophe struck areas have witnessed rehabilitation work on an enormous scale. The Disaster Mitigation Institute, an Ahmedabad based community action hub, evalua
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Destination moon
The Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) has requested the Union government to approve its project aimed at dispatching an unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon. The organisation expects
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Stricter laws
The European Commission is considering strengthening the present chemical safety rules to ensure the removal of hazardous products. Under the proposal, companies would have to publicly state the
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Tale of two cities
The long and busy Madhya Marg in Chandigarh has a rickshaw lane, and the city administration is now planning to extend this through out the city. Chandigarh's experiment is a lesson. It's a lesson
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Reefs at risk
The detrimental effects of dynamite fishing, use of seine nets and coral mining are telling on Tanzania's coastal reefs. To reduce the damage, the Tanzanian government has commissioned environmental
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Riverlinking criticised
The Spanish counterpart of India's river linking project
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Awash!
• 295 distilleries in India with an installed capacity to produce 27 lakh kilolitres (kl) of alcohol per annum • Amount of spent wash generated per litre of
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Cleaning up the Everest
Mount Everest was for long regarded the world's highest garbage dump. In 2000 Junko Tabei, the first woman to scale the peak, had estimated that at least 290 tonnes of garbage were strewn along the
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Right to food upheld
The Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to implement the famine code to tide over the crisis caused by the current drought. The code
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How Karnataka manages its faeces
Thirty years after banning manual scavenging under the Night Soil Carrying System Abolition Act, Karnataka is still a fair way away from flushing it out of the system. On April 25, 2003, though, a minuscule step was taken in this direction when the Bangal