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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Workers offer wages
Workers at Baranagar jute factory in West Bengal, one of five shut down by the state pollution control board, have decided to contribute part of their wages to help install an effluent treatment
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New kilns that are cheaper and better
Indian scientists have devised a coal fired kiln for potters, which is expected to revive the pottery sector groaning under the high cost of firewood.
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Survivors' hopes rise
Nine years after the world's worst industrial accident, an international team of 15 doctors and researchers arrived in Bhopal. Their objective: to "provide consultative support towards the Bhopal
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Targeting Delhi
The National Literacy Mission (NLM) plans to lead Delhi's 2.48 million illiterates "from darkness into light". Besides reading and writing, the mission will focus on sex education, AIDS awareness,
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PURCHASING POWER
ITT WORLD DIRECTORIES, the US-based producer of yellow pages in eight countries, procures paper through a Belgian affiliate, allowing the firm to plan its worldwide purchases and inventories of paper
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The fraud of the century
The "greatest scientific fraud of the century", attributed to an Indian geologist, was in the spotlight once again recently in an article published in the scientific journal, Nature. The findings of
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ACROSS BOUNDARIES
In India, Siemens is building steam turbines and 3M is producing tapes, chemicals and electrical parts. In Mexico, Hewlett-Packard is going into computer assembly and the design of memory
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Resignation creates furore
Nomination to the fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is generally considered by senior scientists as one of the better indications of recognition of their talent. That at least
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INTERNAL REALIGNMENTS
XEROX: At the beginning of the 1980s, the US-based Xerox had joint ventures in different parts of the world, each controlling product design, supply networks, assembly operations and marketing and
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Tribals adamant
Tribals in Nagarahole National Park in Karnataka are opposing a state government plan to relocate them within the park, claiming it would adversely affect their way of life. According to the plan,