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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A mountain to climb
Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues
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Healthy kya?
Why are companies across all product categories nutracising their brands? Obviously, to catch a huge market growing by the day for health and dietary supplements
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Courting NPV
The Supreme Court looks to cutting losses
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Water crisis: a case study of Jabalpur
Jabalpur s shrinking lakes needs sincere planning and community participation
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Several Worlds, one vision
Satyajit Ray"s films showed an extreme sensitivity to the natural world. Yet he was no naturalist. The people he portrayed were carefully situated in their environment
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A haven for dumping
Outdated federal regulations make Indian reserves in Canada vulnerable to waste dumping from sly and better off surrounding communities
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New drug
With quinine-based drugs, traditionally sought to treat malaria, failing to contain the disease anymore, scientists of the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (cimap), based in
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Purity undermined
Damodar river is in deep water. Rampant mining in the North Karanpura coalfield spread over Hazari bagh, Ranchi and Palamau district of Jharkhand is contaminating the water body. A study has found
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Contacts with young minds
Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition
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Excising mutilation
A recent Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) report on female circumcision in state hospitals has incensed Egyptian human rights groups, who have launched a vociferous "No!"