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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How cities (don't) run
Last week I met an official of the local municipal corporation to discuss a property tax case, a blatantly inaccurate and astronomical assessment. I asked: why? Said this officer, Harassment is our
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The Krishna lesson
River waters are contested ground. What is needed is an equity based agenda
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Looking for votes?
Ride the Clean Air tiger
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State sponsors disability
Several UP villages fall prey to crippling disease<br> <font color=navy size=1>(Read full article)</font>
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PILing up pressure
HC tells UP government to submit action taken report on fluorosis incidence
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Words are biotic
What exactly is lost when a language dies? Do we also lose a biotic world-view, the local knowledge and wisdom of which a language is a repository? Is it a coincidence that areas of linguistic and ethnic plurality are also areas of biodiversity? <br><fo
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Administering illness
Hardly a democratic ideal
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MP Panchayati Raj Act amended
The Madhya Pradesh government has amended Madhya Pradesh Panchayati Raj and now empowered Minister Panchayat and Social Welfare to take decisions on the appeal against the decisions of the
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Only second Metro to get ISO 14001 certification
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Tuesday received a shot in its arm. After the New York Metro, DMRC has become the second metro system in the world to be awarded the ISO 14001 certification
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'Need to revive panchayati raj'
The former Ambassador and veteran Gandhian, L.C. Jain said that the concept of 'panchayat' had died with Gandhiji and that there was an immediate need for reviving the spirit of devolution of power