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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Saviour steroids
A new theory attempts to explain the mystery behind steroid hormones anti inflammatory and immuno suppressive qualities
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Trash power
Waste Gas Technology (WGT) Inc, Hampshire, UK, has developed a new technique for utilising waste to produce electricity which, it claims, is twice as effective as conventional incineration.
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Original breakthrough
One of the main components of a video conferencing system is the codec (coder-decoder), which converts video pictures, sound and control information into a compressed digital form for transmission.
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Development etc
the Planning Commission has come down heavily upon non-governmental organisations (ngos). Henceforth, no funds would be provided to ngos by the Commission. The move came in the wake of controversies
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INDIA
The fast-depleting forests of the Western Ghats will be the subject of a US $11 million-project which was recently endorsed by the United Nations Environment Pro gramme. The project will involve
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Lethal lines
green activists are up in arms against the ongoing work on the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka. They have stalled work on the project's transmission line which cuts through the Western Ghats,
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Battling blaze up there
Communication is vital to aerial fire fighting. A project in the US aims at making it easier for pilots with the help of the advanced navigation display system
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MINING MALAISE
Three officials of the Marcopper Mining Corporation in the Philippines have been named in a criminal prosecution launched by the Philippine government last month. The officials have been accused of
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Riding on microwave
Microwaves can not only pave a path into orbit for spaceships but also make a trip to the moon an affordable reality
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GLOVE GLITCH
Medical workers in the US have filed lawsuits in nearly 30 state and federal courts against the makers of latex gloves. They are claiming that the companies should be held accountable for the