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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PATENTS ACT
The Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (idma) has moved the Bombay High Court challenging various issues laid down in the amendments to the 1972 Patent Rules. The government had, in
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Arsenic cleanup
india's first mass arsenic removal community-based programme to provide safe drinking water to more than 400 affected villages of West Bengal will begin in October. The Rs 9-crore project will
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Doctor s call
As studies continue to mount on the dangers of air pollution, over one lakh doctors from all over India voice their concern
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Water woe
Floods claim over 700 lives in China
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CHINA
Around 770,000 people in Ziyang in China's Hunan province were evacuated by rescuers after the Minzu Yuan dyke collapsed following heavy rains that lashed the area on July 23. "However, no
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Neptune s sorrows
Corals are to the oceans what tropical rainforests are to land. Known as Neptune s goblets, they are a vital link in the marine ecosystem and, in fact, store more biodiversity than the rainforests. But human activity is gobbling them up. And global warmi
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Indian shores
Widespread bleaching of corals has been reported in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Reprieve for the killer
Smallpox virus stocks to be kept for research until 2002
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Solutions for a large country...
...are normally available with the local community
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New Jersey based company get patent rights on karela, brinjal
CSIR to provide information about Indian herbs to create awareness