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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SUDAN
Food shortages and advanced malnutrition have taken their toll in Sudan, the African nation where famine is nothing new. International aid agencies have estimated that so far 1.5 million people have
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Hot electricity
The National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan, has developed a thermoelectric device, which can convert heat energy into electricity with a record-high energy-conversion efficiency of 17 per cent. This
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Home fire burning
Fuel cells have been around for decades. Now, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California, USA, has developed new fuel cells of the size of a gas furnace, which look like a
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India: a junkyard?
A HUGE quantity of hazardous asbestos is finding its way into India. But the Union government seems to be silent over the issue. The Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) had prepared a
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Catch the wave
Underwater versions of wind turbines could soon make it easy to tap tidal power potential
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Poisoned river
A RECENT study has established the presence of high concentration of toxic heavy metals in Chaliyar river in Kerala. The Kerala government has yet to implement the recommendations made by two
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Fuelling a revolution
"Elephant grass" can be a potential source of power
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Faster than the fastest
A distributed computer built from 68 personal computers has been found to be one of the 500 fastest computers in the world. The Avalon computer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, costs a
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INDIA
•Haryana is in the grip of a severe drought. The principal Kharif crops such as jowar, bajra and gawar have been totally destroyed. Paddy and sugarcane crops have suffered a serious setback in
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Off with flying colours
A new software increases flight safety by helping pilots calculate their take off speeds more accurately