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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Cancerous farming
Brazilian farmers frequently using pesticides in their farm operations, unknowingly make their children susceptible to kidney cancer. Recently, researchers established that 18 per cent of Wilms'
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Under a cloud
ZIMBABWE's socialist government passed the Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Act in July, to the consternation of the nation's NGO community. NGOs believe the Act will expose them
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Belated resurrection
EVEN as the us pushes itself forward as the patron-in-chief of the nuclear non- proliferation camp, it is going steadily ahead with its nuclear trade transactions. It recently signed a revised
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To dam or not to dam
THE Bisalpur dam in Rajasthan will finally see the daylight. The World Bank (WB) has decided to fund the Jaipur Water Supply Project which will receive water from the Bisalpur dam under
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Legal eagles
Environmental squads to monitor and control pollution may soon make their appearance all over the country, as per a recent Supreme Court order. The squads will mainly play the role of watchdogs,
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Darkness at dawn
THE horrifying train accident near Ferozabad in the wee hours of August 20, which claimed at least 400 lives when the Delhi-bound Purushottam Express rammed into a stationary Kalindi Express,
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Justice out of the window
Microsoft Corp, the US software giant, has been given breathing space by the nation's Justice Department. The company, all set to launch its new, much-vaunted operating system, Windows 95 -- which is
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The halo around the taj
The Supreme Court's efforts to improve the environment around the Taj Mahal seem to be blessed. The expert committee formed by the ministry of environment and forests at the Court's bidding recently
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Holy shit!
The Dutch plan of using India as a dung dump has been debunked. Import of the highly contaminated cattle dung as manure, had been banned by the Indian government last September, but it took the
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The enemy within
India's environment will be ravaged not just by the likes of Enron, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Hitachi or BMW but, equally and more so, by Rahul Bajaj, Ratan Tata, K K Birla and the petroleum minister who runs