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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Baking secrets
In wheat kernels, there are more than hundred different types of storage proteins, which are of great importance to the baking quality of the dough. There are mainly two groups of proteins in
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A golden crop
A transgenic sunflower seed not only comes with monetary gains for the farmer but also carries sundry agronomic benefits
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Easy solution
problems of environmental degradation can be ironed out, literally! Christopher Nagel and his team at the Molten Metal Technology in Waltham, Massachusetts, along with Robert Bach, a chemist at
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Viral culprit
depression in human kind could, in all possibility, be due to a virus, a similar strain of which has been found to cause the same illness in animals too. Known as the Borna virus, it was recovered
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Never say die
Farmers and agricultural scientists in Australia are having a tough time battling a weed that has suddenly developed resistance to a herbicide
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The global junkstore
foreign vessels carrying hazardous wastes are fast turning India into a global dumping ground. Investigations made by the international environmental group Greenpeace and Shrishti, a Delhi-based
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INDIA
Scientists from the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Science University, Madras, made a major breakthrough recently when they developed a vaccine for the control of
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Clinging to the roots
tribals residing in the Nagarhole National Park in Mysore, Karnataka, are up in arms against the proposed eco-development project which is being funded by the World Bank (wb). They contend
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Battle cry
An American engineer, excited by his soldier son's account of enduring Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the Gulf Crisis has put together a smart handheld gadget that can provide an accurate warning
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Just a call away
for patients requiring expert advice from hospitals abroad, the telemedicine service would be a boon. This global medical consultation service was recently launched in New Delhi by the city-based