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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Labouring with AIDS
The dreaded AIDS virus could sooner or later affect the organised industrial labour force in India, leading to an alarming increase in absenteeism by 50 per cent, states a United Nations Development
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Industry s initiative
Can the country's top business groups utilise their corporate skills to manage national parks? They can, believe the Kotharis and Piramals. The two have jointly established the first corporate
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South Asia
No littering in bhutan: Bhutan has passed a law to prevent littering and pollution in the kingdom's capital Thimphu. The Thimphu Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules and Regulations 2007 will come
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Olive Ridleys misguided by lights
The hapless Olive Ridley turtles are in turmoil again. Environmentalists have expressed concern over the acti vities of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (drdo) on Orissa's Wheeler's
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Saving Chilka
TWENTY-ONE members of Parliament have petitioned the Prime Minister to save Chilka Lake, a major wetland in the country. They have protested against the state government giving advance
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Court ruling on tree felling worries officials
A dispute over a plot demarcation has highlighted the problem of protecting privately owned forests in Himachal.
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Slum again
Trade unionist Datta Samant has helped 2,500 families of quarry workers in Bombay to get their settlement recognised as a slum. The 35-acre plot amid sand quarries at Powai lake was notified as a
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ICICI to the rescue
Indian industrialists will now have few excuses for not undertaking Pollution control measures: the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) has offered Rs 150 crore as
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Exhausting alternatives
The Indian Parliament has passed legislation that promotes the use of vehicles using alternate fuel
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Biopirates in the dragnet
Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs<br> <br>