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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Living off the sun
Living Solar (8mins) documents the successful experiments of the people of Auroville in Tamil Nadu, in tapping the full potential of solar power. It shows how this township uses solar energy to meet
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Hide and seek
Europe has taken the lead in preparing an eco label for leather products
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Powering the elite
The New Delhi Municipal Committee (ndmc) proposes to set up its own gas-based power plant and water treatment plant at a cost of Rs 100 crore to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity and water
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Green Dot busters
Germany's packaging ordinance could let money out of India's export till
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No funds for rural project
An ambitious programme of mapping the land resources of every village panchayat in Kerala has run into trouble. The project was conceived in 1988 by the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the Centre
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Garlic wards off TB
Garlic is effective in treating tuberculosis, especially the kind which is resistant to antibiotics, claim scientists P Ratnakar, D Srilatha and P S Murthy of the University College of Medical
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Fear strikes the heart
THE euphoria among cardiologists at the Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) over the country's first heart transplant operation has proved to be shortlived. Plans to perform
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Operation desert sands
Soldiers are forcefully bunginging saplings into Bikaner's parched soil
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Unwilling bull's eyes
The people of the Netarhat plateau in Bihar refuse to move out of the range of fire
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Probing farmers' potential
The draft irrigation management policy prepared by the Central Water Commission aims to boost agricultural yield in places where the water potential exceeds the land potential, through