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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And justice for all?
In the search for their rightful place in things, the adversaries of the Sardar Sarovar project have taken the issue to the highest court in India
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Ready for combat
Oral polio vaccine will now be made in India
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Digital palimpsest
Digital palimpsest: In 1991, the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, used GIS to undertake a pilot study for wasteland development in Bellary district of Karnataka. The wastelands were divided
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A sanctuary becomes a battlefield
Intelligence agencies of the Assam government have alleged that the 2,387 sq km Manas Tiger Reserve, listed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage site, has become a sanctuary for about 200 Bodo
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Future stock
Even though demand and capacity for CFCs in developing countries is set to dwindle, the big multinationals have ensured a massive surplus for themselves
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Tracks to calamity
The Konkan Railway Corp (KRC) was caught off guard when the Karnataka agriculture minister, H M Revanna, chose to let loose a tirade against the project. The state government has always come out in
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Chronology
1986-September Montreal Protocol ratified 1989-January Montreal Protocol comes into force 1991-December Multilateral Fund instituted 1993-November MNC production quota hike comes
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Extending the pollution horizon
The Haryana government has adopted a list of 43 industries as highly polluting, rejecting the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) list of 17 types of heavily polluting industries, circulated 2
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Here, knowledge is bliss: a GIS example
A GIS-based approach to natural resources management, based on current information and location-oriented, allows action to be taken more effectively. By integrating various layers of geo-information
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Gene check
The need to regulate the outflow of genetic resources from the country has prompted the Union government to take stop- gap measures as the ministry for environment and forests (MEF) has failed on its