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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No trespassers
Pro-Narmada dam activists in Gujarat have succeeded in forcing a fact finding team appointed by Union ministry of environment and forest (MEF) to put off its visit to the dam site. The NBA felt that
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Gassed for life
Union minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Satish Sharma and the chief ministers of the southern states met in Bangalore on March 26 to establish a natural gas network for these states.
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Proposal rejected
The proposal of the Holland-based company, Royal Van der Have, to set up a 100 per cent foreign-owned firm to conduct research in Indian seeds and develop new varieties has been rejected by India's
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Blood in the gutters
The Delhi High Court has ordered, in a ruling on March 18, the closure of the city's main abattoir at Idgah, where approximately 12,000 animals -- about 5 times its capacity -- are butchered every
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Hope for new borns
A scientist at the B R Ambedkar Centre for Bio-medical Research in the University of Delhi claims to have discovered an effective cure for physiological neonatal jaundice, an affliction that is
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Pioneering project
Drinking water in Delhi may soon be safer and more potable. For the first time in India, the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking (DWSSDU) expects to introduce, in May, the ozonisation
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The drowning of an island
Imagine living on a bump of land that the river is nibbling away relentlessly...
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Potential under utilised
The "vast potential" of groundwater was either over-exploited or under-utilised, said minister of state for water resources and urban development P K Thungon at a seminar held in Delhi on March 22 to
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Probing into glaciers
The department of science and technology (DST) is seeking the cooperation of user agencies in north Indian states to generate information on glaciers and snow cover, to facilitate a better management
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Minimum interference, maximum yields
Cultivation with the least amount of human intervention can yield rich harvests and does not degrade the soil