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
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
Environmentalists Say Hike Will Raise Demand For Diesel, Increasing Emissions New Delhi: The petrol price hike has had car owners fretting but environmentalists too have started raising their voice against what they call an indirect incentivisation of diesel. The move to make petrol more expensive will only push more people to go in for diesel vehicles, they claim.
Tells Cops To Act On Demolition of Yusuf Sarai Mkt Pavements New Delhi: The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has taken serious note of the demolition of the footpaths outside Yusuf Sarai Market and has asked the police to prosecute the people who damaged public property. TOI had on April 18 reported how these footpaths had been demolished overnight under mysterious circumstances.
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa has batted for special incentives for its forest field staff deployed in the tiger reserves (TRs) and an immediate approval for raising a special tiger task force. In the just-concluded meeting of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the Orissa Government demanded free ration and medical assistance to the personnel working in the inhospitable terrains.
The Private Bus Owners Association of Sri Lanka yesterday vowed that that they would campaign against the Vehicle Emission Testing Programme (VET)unless the Petroleum Ministry took steps to produce diesel with low Sulphur levels. The VET programme was jointly implemented by the Environment and Natural Resources and Transport Ministry in 2007 to reduce dangerous gases that cause air pollution.
Two government senior secondary school at Makreri (Jogindernagar) and Rewalsar have been ranked among the top
Surreal beach sight: Half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living We were on a beach, somewhere close to Puducherry. It was a surreal sight: half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or cyclone, but by the eroded beach.
The outcome of Stockholm Convention to ban endosulfan capping a long-drawn campaign against the pesticide on health grounds may have brought cheers to the opponents but the domestic industry is crying foul suspecting an European link aiming to capture the Indian market. India and a few other developing countries extracted several exemptions, including a phase out period of 11 years to ban produ
If endosulfan is evil, why does the Indian farmer use it? Surely, there is a farmer's point of view. The first reports linking endosulfan to health problems and birth defects in Kasaragod, Kerala were
The Sacred City of Kandy is likely to lose its World Heritage City status due to its air pollution levels that are higher than the national and World Health Organisation standards, claims an authority in the transport sector. Head of the Engineering Faculty at the Moratuwa University Professor Amal Kumarage, who also heads the Department of Transport and Logistic Management, says the United Nat
Mendha-Lekha, a remote village in the Maoist-affected Gadchiroli district of eastern Maharashtra, has become the first in the country where tribals have been given the right to sell bamboo harvested from the surrounding forests, an official said. The villagers, numbering around 3,000, attended the function Wednesday when village head Devaji Tofa was handed over a transit passbook, enabling the