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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No full stops
CHINA has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the violent protestations raised in the rest of the world and gone ahead with yet another nuclear test on August 17. Earlier, Chinese authorities
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Print of the species
INDIA's vast genetic resources will now have a protective cover with the setting up of the National Research Centre for Finger Printing of Animal and Plant Species in New Delhi. The centre,
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Death of a star
ASTROPHYSICIST Subramanyam Chandrasekhar, 83, died of a heart attack on August 21 in Chicago. Humiliated and laughed at when he presented his theory on dying stars for the first time at the Royai
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ANTI AQUA
The campaign to save coastal areas from the stranglehold of aquaculture has received a shot in the arm with a recent Supreme Court order, passed on August 24, directing all coastal states
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Blue revolution goes awry
AQUACULTURE, once eulogised as a trouble-free money-spinner, is now causing sleepless nights for its promoters. Last year, a mysterious viral disease, nick- named "white spot", had swept
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Exercises in upgradation
WITH the flood situation in the North- east taking a turn for the worse during the monsoons, the 3 master plans for flood control are being assessed for updating. Slated for upgraclation
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All for a mausoleum
YET another step has been initiated to save the famous Taj Mabal in Agra from environmental degradation. This time, however, it will also benefit over 50,000 households in the city which will be
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Power to the people
I am convinced that the best way to move towards liberalisation is not just to empower entrepreneurs, but also empower local communities, this will fail in fewer cases than the present governance system does
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The year of Microsoft
The software giant rides high on the success of Windows 95
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Curing our medical vision
AT A time when a growing number of Western countries are focusing in on alternate medicine, India is neglecting its traditional cures. In the urban centres, where the manufacturers of