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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Water in the sand
Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch
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'Commercialisation alone can sustain non conventional energy sources'
G V RAMAKRISHNA is a member of the Planning Commission, currently dealing with the energy sector. The former Indian Administrative Service officer was India's ambassador to Belgium from 1988 1990. He was appointed chairperson of t
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'I am rewriting Ayurvedic knowledge'
Vaidya Balendu Prakash is presently carrying out research work on Rasayan Shastra metal therapy , based on ayurveda. He has been successfully treating patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and leukaemia. All the medicines used are derived from natur
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Fishing for solutions
Canada and the European Union silence their cannons in their face off over Atlantic fishing grounds
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Whale of an error
A GIANT question mark casts a shadow over Norway's whale census, Recent revelations in a confidential document from the Norwegian Computing Centre and the University of Oslo disclose errors
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Science without vision
BELOW a few shimmering points of achievements, the underside of Indian science is a vast abyss of failure and frustration. The contours of the 7th largest pool of scientifically trained personnel in
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Old is gold
MODERNITY meets tradition at the General Informations Service Terminal-National Informatics Centre (gistnic) -- a database on traditional science and technologies of India -- located at the National
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Telecom towns
A chain of 'digital cities' will link up the European Union
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Looking to the past
IN THE traditional farming system, locally available resources that are cheap and sustainable have been used after repeated experiments with local knowledge for subsistence. While modern agricultural
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Research on a cruise
The operation of a total of 5 research cruises will be undertaken this Department of Ocean Development to study the role of greenhouse gases in changing atmospheric temperature. Oceans and seabeds