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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Stealing what is ours
THE traditional Indian systems of medicine such as Auyrveda, Unani and Siddha, are facing a threat from an unlikely quarter - the World Trade Organisation's (WTO'S) rules on Intellectual Property
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Fly by wire
A robot plane is due to take off from Newfoundland later this month and fly 3,000 km across the Atlantic to Ireland without any human intervention whatsoever. The flight, say the developers of the
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Jammin'
Cellphones are not just a public nuisance - they are also used by lookouts to warn criminals when the police are near. Now Deropa of Boksburg, South Africa, is patenting a transmitter that jams
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Unplanned development
THE race of turning the urban areas of Nagaland into a concrete jungle with no attention to effective and proper planning has emerged as a major cause for concern in this tiny Indian hill state. A
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New casting
German automobile giant Daimler-Benz has developed a new method of casting aluminium engine blocks that cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 36 per cent. Traditionally, the block is cast in a sand mould,
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To save a forest
THE ecosystem of the world's largest mangrove, the Sundarbans in West Bengal, was falling apart until local forest authorities took up conservation projects to educate the locals and wean them away
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Green rockets
US naval scientists in California have developed a nonpolluting rocket fuel that burns alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. The key is the catalyst that the navy is keeping under wraps. The catalyst is
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Meltdown 2000!
Celebrations of the new century might be accompanied by multiple nuclear meltdowns wrought by the millennium bug. Is there a way out?
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COAL TROUBLE
The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh High Court to consider whether the government's decision allowing certain collieries to charge 10 per cent premium on coal price violated the right
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Damage control
AFTER visiting the flood areas of eastern Uttar Pradesh, the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said India is going to take up the issue of floods with Nepal as most of the rivers which flood