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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Timber travails
CONCERTED efforts by officials of the Kamrup East Forest Division have shown encouraging results in containing large-scale illegal felling and trade of valuable trees in reserved forests along
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Top of the desk stuff
Good news awaits the desk top publishing industry with the development of the FT S700 image input system. Equipped with a high precision charge couple device scanner, the new system promises advantages like higher resolution pictures
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In Focus
In Brazil, the feud over Decree 22/91 continues to dog the Yanomami and other indigenous peoples. S A Agropecuaria e lmoveis, an influential mining company, has now requested that the injunction it
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Editor's Page
If India wants to promote the spirit of making donations and encourage its infant NGO sector, it, too, will have to adopt tax laws that encourage donations
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Alarm as it warms
Higher temperatures the world over do not just result in rising sea levels. According to a recent report produced by scientists from 50 countries, global warming has endangered even human health
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BATTLING FLOODS
Frequent floods has left the Bangladeshis in a state of utter despair. Pitching in to help is the World Bank which recently announced the approval of a US $121.9 million credit. The credit will
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Whither liberalisation
The post GATT liberalisation era has come to India not only with its enchanting platter of economic efficiency, technological treasure trough and fairy tale promises of 'globalisation' but it has also raised some significant questions regarding its viab
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Spatial success
With the latest launch of another remote sensing satellite, Indian space scientists aim to carve out a niche in the world market for satellite data... and beat Uncle Sam to it
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A leaf from history
The search for easily applicable environment-friendly plant protection technologies could very well find its answer in the pages of history