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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Greater attraction
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California, have announced the fabrication of the worlds' strongest magnet. The new magnet creates a field of 13.5 tesla which beats the previous
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Right campaign
at a recent national consultation, the Union ministry of environment and forest's ( mef) draft bill proposing a legislation to check the piracy of Indian medicinal plants and microbes, was
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SHUT DOWN
The Madras High Court came down heavily on 44 dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, which have been ordered to close down for having failed to establish effluent treatment plants
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AN EPIC TRIAL
The longest court case in Britain's history ended in a costly victory for McDonald's Corp of the US when two British environmental acti vists were ordered to pay the company US $98,000 in
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SAVE THIS HILL
A proposal to build a hill station by the Sahara India Housing Ltd (SIHL) near Lonavala in Pune district in Maharashtra, has been stayed by the Mumbai High Court. The court stopped SIHL from
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Testing time
Biosensor, a new technique of chemical analysis, can test water quality, food safety, and much more in no time with remarkable accuracy
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BEEF BLUES
In the first case of its kind, a US rancher has sued Oprah Winfrey, the popular talk show hostess, alleging that her broadcast of April 16, 1996 had cost him US $6.7 million in lost sales of
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BUYING TIMES
Court has extended the time for setting up effluent treatment plants in the industrial estates of Vatwa, Naroda and Odhav in the outskirts of Ahmedabad till July 31. The extension was, how ever,
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Heart to heart
in a recent announcement, doctors at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre ( bhmrc ) said that they have been successful in employing a new non-surgical technique of treating
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Plastic coat for planes
A thin polymer film with a pressure-sensitive adhesive would be used as a coating for US fighter planes. This is meant to replace the conventional paint which adds to the weight of the aircraft.