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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IN FOCUS
France is in a frenzy to be friends again with the rest of the world. Especially with the countries in the South Pacific, which have been smouldering with indignation ever since the
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Plagueing policies
Since rats cannot be totally exterminated, keeping a watch on wild and domestic rodernt plays a critical role in plague control, and this can be easily done by making rodent watch a part of the regular studies of zoology students in
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Beyond home
Bill Clinton's absence from the Copenhagen summit on social development underscores the post Cold War parochialism that has gripped the American world vision
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Heart goes 'oink, oink'
Take heart .. says Imutran, a Chambridge-based British biotechoology firm to ailing heart patients. It is preparing to present them with a brand new set of is organ that will be carved out i
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A reminder of responsibility
EXACTLY after a decade, the Nobel Peace Prize has found a recepienty campaigning directly against atomic weapons. In1985,it had been awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of
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Noble judgement
Environmentalists exchange victory signs as three Atmospheric scientists and an anti nuclear activist are awarded Nobel prize
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First among equals
Peer review, the long standing custodian of good science, is now being seen by many as a cabalistic exercise that assures the self interests of the scientific community. With accountability being the new mantra, Indian scientists can no longer aff
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Canal of woes
Film director Sahjo Singh's latest Sons Mati, has been selected for Panorama '95. The film is based on the story of Sona Bel of west Rajasthan, who is fight-ing to get back her
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On troubled grounds
An open invitation to avaricious plantation companies, the proposed Karnataka Land Reform Act amendments will Hurt poor farmers
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Rooting out a poison
Gene therapy to over the cassava's toxicity