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
India
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Projecting a distorted reality
A documentary for British children presents an inaccurate and oversimplified image of India.
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The in between vow
A DISCOVERY has been the existence of aands. Till recently one had been talking only of oraans as sacred groves. Aand is a vow, taken by a village, not to grow anything on a plot of land. The aands
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No takers
When the Karnataka government announced substantial reservation of seats for the "backward and the oppressed classes" in the state's panchayats in 1992, it was welcomed by most experts and analysts.
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The piracy continues
INDIAN traditional knowledge, as well as plants of the Amazon, continue to be "stolen" by scientists from other nations and used by pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs. And, says Peter
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Explosive confession
RELEASING the biggest wave of classified nuclear secrets ever to pour out of Washington, US energy secretary Hazel O'Leary admitted that between 1945 and 1990, the country had conducted 204 secret
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A stale session of scientists
The 81st session of the Indian Science Congress failed to inspire interaction among scientists and was reduced to a forum for criticising the state of Indian science.
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When science is fun
Children are more likely to develop the spirit of scientific inquiry when they treat science like a game than when they have to study it.
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Substantial decline in tiger population
With a sharp fall in India's tiger population, the ministry of environment and forests has decided to set up special teams to deal with poaching.
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A reprieve for tribals
The Gujarat government has been ordered not to close the sluice gates of the Sardar Sarovar dam until all rehabilitation and resettlement plans are finalised
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New parameters
The Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) will conduct an experiment to improve weather forecasting by using additional parameters. The pilot project, which will be sponsored by