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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Nature's fury
RAMPANT deforestation by the timber mafia, poor mapping systems and inadequate maintenance of roads in the region may be the reason for recent landslides in the hills of Uttar Pradesh. People
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Finding faults
Macroseismic and aftershock studies reveal a major seismic fault in Madhya Pradesh
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Bike safety
Bikes are going to be safer. John Shortfall of Dublin, Ireland, has taken the airbag technology out of the car and put it in your average, everyday bike helmets. His new crash helmet contains a
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Eco friendly plastics?
THE Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has laid down specifications on the manufacture of polythene bags in order to make them eco-friendly, which could often be recycled. Union
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Green gold
Grown only in a few developed nations till now, the nutrient rich spirulina algae comes to India
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Crop failure
WATER-LOGGING in northern India has caused massive decline in the area under cotton cultivation. The production of cotton in Punjab and Haryana has been the worst affected, said the North India
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Waters of woe
The recent spate of floods can easily be interpreted as one of the worst floods of the century for India
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Tale of destruction
MORE than 2,229 lakh trees in 40 coastal villages of four tehsils of Kutch district were totally destroyed during the cyclone which which swept across Gujarat in July this year. More than 7,000
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A rice by another name
Thailand threatens to take the US to the WTO for allowing a Texas based company to use "jasmati" as a trademark for a variety of rice
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Sliding mountains
Landslides are not new to the Himalaya