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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The alcoholic gene
Alcoholism and genes: a collaborative study is closing on in establishing a link between the two
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Fumes and wrinkles
Smoking not only affects your mouth and lung but it also plays a vicious part in expediting ageing and is responsible for premature wrinkles
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Listen and learn
To facilitate development and training in rural areas, the Indian Space Research Organisation is starting the
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Saying it with clay
The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute's Naroda Centre in Gujarat has devised a new process to develop superior black pottery from common clay. Under a project sponsored by the Rural
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Saved by a signal
Rescue operations in the high seas get a boost with the development of a new communication device
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• For ensuring the safety of six major dams
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Friendly foes
An obnoxious weed is turned into much needed compost for raising plants in a nursery
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Greening the fibre
jute workers of West Bengal got a fresh lease of life with the development of a substitute for the environmentally suspect jute batching oil (jbo). The Jute Technological Research Laboratory
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Good riddance
the concerns raised over the issue of incinerating hospital wastes will hopefully be set at rest with new rules announced by the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb). Disposables made of
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Quick zeolites
India is poised to become a leading player in the global chemical processing market, thanks to the efforts of researchers at the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). The NCL scientists