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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Signing up
Finally, India decides to sign the patents treaty
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Razing the past
A historic structure in Simla may be demolished to make way for a multi storey building
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In the dock
Were the World Bank policies faulty?
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Staging a comeback
The old glass syringe is back in Calcutta's government hospitals
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MONEYMAKERS
DIVIDING WORKS: Dabur India Ltd plans to spin off its oncology and food divisions into separate companies. Anand Burman, deputy managing director of Dabur India, says, the company now wants to focus
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Washed and cleaned
Can household detergents fight cancer? Canadian scientists think they can
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UNITED NATIONS
Five United Nations' (UN) agencies have agreed to extend a US $20 million aid package to initiate a programme for untversalisation of elementary education in India. An agreement to this effect was
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TB revealed
Now that science has "decoded" the TB bacterium, a cure seems possible
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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