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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Peppered cure
RESEARCHERS at the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) in Jammu have sought government approval for a novel anti-TB therapy containing the pepper extract, piperine. The extract is to be used
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Carelessly spilled
CARELESSNESS on the part of a worker has resulted in a major oil spill in the Hooghly river at Haldia about 80 km from Calcutta. Marine pollution control vessels belonging to the Calcutta
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The second coming
Claims of successful regimes go flying out of the window as malaria and TB, aided by fresh drug resistant traits, play havoc across boundaries
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"Environmentalists' criticism of industries is not correct"
H D DEVE GOWDA is today the Prime Minister PM of India. Till last month, he was the chief minister of Karnataka. His sole aim there was to make Karnataka the most industrialised state. And he couldn't care less about the environmental fallout. Indee
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Another wait and watch
THE picture is getting bleaker day by day. First, the President of India surprised everyone by asking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to take over the reigns of the country at a time when
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Holding out the olive branch
The Save Coast Movement (SCM) of Orissa scored a major victory in its campaign to protect the habitat of the olive ridley turtles. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), bowing
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Forestry convention: lair in the woods
THE issue of who will govern the world's forests, and how, is hotting up again. The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) has set up the Ad hoc Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) to
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Woes of the world
It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report
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Young voices speak
Landscapes: Children's Voices, is a compilation of children's writing and art, based on the Tamil concept of thinais or ecosystems (referring to a variety of ecosystems like those in
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The unsilenced valley
The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh are armed with a simple, effective and practical system of irrigation to mend the ruin inflicted by the state's impractical and rudderless schemes