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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Dolphin power
an eight - year - old British boy spoke his first words after swimming with dolphins, reported British newspapers. Nikki Brice, starved of oxygen at birth, had been left unable to
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Facelift for Taj
A multilateral collaboration will try to take the world s most beautiful structure back to its original glory
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MONEYMAKERS
left in the lurch: Enron Corp has withdrawn its plan to set up a US $ 6 billion hydroelectric-power project in Nepal. With this, the company's grand plan has been stalled for South Asia. Enron's
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What the blazes!
Is it the hand of God, or the soiled hand of man? The buck is being passed even as flames stretching hundreds and hundreds of kilometres threaten lives, livestock and forests the world over, from Brazil to Indonesia. El Ni o is frequently blamed, but
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Arsenic in groundwater
Groundwater in some parts of Calcutta has revealed traces of arsenic, according to a recently published research paper. Scientists from the School of Environmental Studies of Jadavpur University,
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Towards Extinction
The Great-One-Horned Rhinoceros have been driven into a few pockets of Nepal and eastern India because of dwindling forests, where poachers are hunting them to extinction. A variety of other
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Doing time
A beam of light could soon cure you of that jet lag as scientists find out how to wind our body clocks
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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations Funds for Population Activities (UNFPA) is in the process of designing and implementing a comprehensive population programme for India. They will allocate US $100 million for the
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Pollution havoc
moradabad in Uttar Pradesh has all the features unique to all cities of the state
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And now, green genes
Now, we can pin down those tiny chromosomes which help cancer spread its deadly web