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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All workers unite...
...especially in the gigantic unorganised sector, and suddenly the labour fringe becomes the mainstream
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Nucleocracy's nonsense
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste
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Lab rats' in space
Atlantis and Mir did an intimately interlocked fandango for 5 days, and its crew of 6 Americans and 4 Russians sprinted through an impeccably and precisely scheduled series of 28 experiments, 15 of
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Pigmentpointer
Texas A&M University researchers have reported finding DNA traces in the pigment used in 3,000-4,000 year old cave paintings discovered in Texas (Science, Vol 268, No 5210). Paint samples
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Poison leak
The recent radioactive water leak in Tarapur has caused a furore and caught the authorities by their neck
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Ecoprinciples
Environment 1995 Version describes succinctly and lucidly how the ecosystem work, how matter and energy move through the ecosystem, and how the population dynamics affects and is, in turn, affected
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Co opting NGOs
Recent government moves in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe to monitor NGOs and curtail their rights are being given a once over
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Standard solution
Keeping the standard kilogram - a 4 cm high and 4 cm wide platinum iridium cylinder in Paris - clean is a formidable task. The cylinder has to be kept free from dust and contaminants like
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Damned by tribals
Although the prime minister's programme to lay the foundation stone at the 710 mw Koel Karo hydel project on March 5 was shelved, the anti-dam lobby demonstrated its muscle by gathering at Torpa