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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Sage advice
Africa's researchers and scientists discuss their traditional knowledge and developmental skills for better sustainability
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Some seed
The tiny fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) holds the record for the longest sperm. Researcher Scott Pitnick of Bowling Green state university, Ohio, found that the fly produces sperm that are 60mm
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Flowering contentions
A Kenyan bid to enter the global flower market withers some of the North's near monopoly profiteering
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Pike sense
Canadian researchers have identified the first species of toilet-trained fish - pikes select secluded areas to deposit their faeces to safeguard against being detected by their prey (New
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Braindeath
Another viral maniac has claimed 200 lives -- including those of 75 children below the age of 10 -- in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. The state's health department officials of suspect that
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Shot to birth
A recently developed Indian birth control vaccine is being debated to death
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MONEYMAKERS
HOMING IN WITH FLOWERS: Cashing in on the flower boom in the country, the Haryana-based Karishma Floriculture Ltd (KFL) has decided to manufacture indigenous greenhouses for floriculturists.
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Cropped harvest
The much awaited monsoon in Bangladesh spells doom for the nation
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For your ears only
All India Radio now provides a paging service
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CHINA
Even as nuclear powers the world over observed a moratorium on nuclear tests, China tested its first mobile intercontinental ballistic missile -- capable of hitting targets in Asia, Russia and even