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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Roaming river
The most devastating feature of Kosi, Bihar's sorrow, has been its ruthless course shifts. In the last 200 years, it has moved westwards by as much as 110 km averaging some 0.5 km every year. Up to
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Flood decontrol
Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. If you embank a river it bursts its embankments. So much for flood control measures
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TRIBE TRAVAILS
One of the major tribal groups in Tamil Nadu, the population of the Irula tribe is 105,759 (Census of India, 1981). Some of them also live in Kerala and Karnataka. In Tamil Nadu, their concentration
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Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
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Money matters
The government of Delhi plans to provide financial help to commercial vehicle operators
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Going down
Tokyo finds a solution for space shortage: dig the down under
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Problems intensified
Depletion of micronutrients such as copper and molybdenum from the soil leads to poor food quality and micronutrient deficiency in humans. The most common deficiency is that of zinc, copper and
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Yellow lies
Participants at the session dealing with radiology at the conference, including A Gopalakrishnan, a former chairperson of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), criticised the Department of Atomic
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Parenting turtles
Malaysia starts adoption scheme to check the dwindling turtle population
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Pumping poison
Research by the School of Environmental Studies (SES), Jadavpur University, Calcutta, has revealed that the tubewell of a single rural water supply scheme in Malda in West Bengal had pumped