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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Exploring India's rural market potential
With rural disposable incomes outstripping urban ones, there is a lot of scope for the expansion of the rural market base.
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Exotic denizens of the particle zoo
From ancient Greece to the world of today, humans have always believed that the amazing diversity of objects in the universe can be interpreted as different combinations of a few, basic particles.
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Court curbs Ganga polluters in Bihar, Bengal
Sugar and paper mills in Bihar and tanneries in West Bengal have been penalised by the Supreme Court for continuing to discharge untreated waste into the Ganga and its tributaries.
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Private plantations urged on forest land
After supporting India's forestry programmes for almost two decades, the World Bank now is moving toward arrogating to itself governance of the country's forests.
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Cooperative effort
A group of industrialists in Andhra Pradesh blaze a new trail in the treatment of effluents.
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UN decisions must be open to public debate
IT IS SAD that the World Health Assembly did not accept the suggestion of AIDS campaigner Jonathan Mann, that the candidate for the director-generalship of the World Health Organisation take part in
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Trial by fire
Medical researchers seem to have worried unduly that their grants from funding agencies would be affected because a fire at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on April 27 destroyed
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Uninspired view of culture and development
WRITTEN jointly by a sociologist and an anthropologist, the book raises hopes of providing an understanding of uneven development within cultural and historical paradigms. Unfortunately, the reader
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A quicksilver forestry strategy
Pressure from environmentalists has induced the World bank to greatly modify its forestry strategy at least twice since 1950.
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Ecologists fear growth of polluting industry
Environmentalists fear India's liberalisation policies will lead to the growth of the small scale dyestuff industry, which is a heavy polluter.