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
India
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Crying out for aid
With one of the highest growth rate of AIDS cases in the world, India sees a boom in 'opportunistic infections' baffling doctors
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Lesson planning
A recent report says highly unpredictable form of urban growth in the South is razing down traffic planning attempts
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Cloying contraceptive
A sugar-based pill has been lauded as the most promising candidate for a male contraceptive. In fertilisation, the sperm penetrates a sugary coating around the egg with the help of an enzyme
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Moneymakers
LENDING A SUPPORT: For nearly 1.5 million South Africans infected with HIV virus and their dependents, life is going to be less of a burden. The Metropolitan Life, an insurance group,
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Blame Edison
Researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, US, have found an unlikely scapegoat for all the lazybones found dozing at work: Thomas Alva Edison,
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Be Indian...
.... and lower the risk of getting coronary diseases. This is the finding of a study conducted by Monilek Hospital and Research centre in Jaipur
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SINGAPORE
Land-starved Singaporeans are looking towards the sky for a solution. Local scientists have developed a new technology to grow vegetables in the air as part of a bid to produce pesticide-free,
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Dealing with fetish
Purposeless preoccupations of the mind like the constant worry of the well being of loved ones can be treated by effective behavioural treatment
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Refrigerator or greenhouse
Martin E Nix, an engineer from Seattle, US, who holds several patents for solar powered inventions, has devised a way of turning old refrigerators into greenhouses. The condenser, compressor and
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Dressed to kill no more
WITH the German ban on azo dyes having come into effect from April 1, the ministry of environment and forests has issued a notification which aims to ban handling of 1-4 more azo dyes as