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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Small wonder
Shake a few bits of silicon in a petri dish containing water and lo, you have a three dimensional structure!
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IN FOCUS
India continued to play hard to get at the just concluded Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva. Its stance that the comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) does not impress upon the nuclear powers
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NET WORK
A choice of imagesApplet is the term used for the latest novelty to hit the Internet. Applets are small programmes that can be quickly transmitted to a personal computer (PC). They
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Herbal healing
millions of children crippled by polio may be able to walk without crutches. A herbal medication developed by a resident from Haripur Dak - a remote village in Purnea district of Bihar - holds
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Europa's vital statistics
Discovered first by Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, in 1610, Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter's 16 moons, after Ganymede, Calisto and lo. Its diameter is nearly 3,050 km, almost the
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In full gear
What worries me more than the actual problem of vehicular pollution is that nobody is looking at it from a national perspective
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Perched atop an abyss
The predatory Nile perch, introduced with all good intentions into the Lake Victoria, is turning out to be the magnificent lake s nemesis
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Till death do us apart
Despite tonnes of evidence about the ruinous import of pesticides, humankind, especially in the South, are using just that much tonnes of it<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> "Pesticides dwarf the other environmental risks the <font class="UCASE">us</font> -based environment protection agency <font class="UCASE">(epa) </font> deals with.
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India must have a proactive trade agenda
Muchkund Dubey s crowning achievement at the end of an illustrious career as a diplomat was his role as India s foreign secretary during the Uruguay Round of negotiations. He spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Raksha Khushalani</font> in Kathmandu about t