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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Pooyamkutti: assaulting the Ghats
The Pooyamkutti hydel power project in Kerala's Idukki district cleared by Kamal Nath, is another hotbed of controversy. Conceived by the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) decades ago, the
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TRUE TO HYPE
Government agencies have kept people in the dark on matters which relate to public health and environment. He who pays the piper calls the tune
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Her mother s child
The girl child. Born a mother s assistant, more work for the mother means more for her too. So where does the school schedule fit in?
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Testy drive
The multinational ranks third but its performance cannot be a badge of success on its huge corporate shoulders
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CLEAN WATER FOR NEPAL
Usha Birta Water System, a water filtration and purification system developed in Nepal jointly with a German firm was unveiled early this month in Kathmandu. Golcha Industrial Group, a
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A pinch of salt
the Union ministry of human resource development has directed all state governments to use only iodised salt in food given free of cost under their nutrition-related programmes. "The decision
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Trash tax
In order to deal with the growing waste, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (mch) has passed a resolution to impose a garbage tax on 2,000 waste-generating city institutions. These include
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Stringent step
Segregate your waste or pay up. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) has sounded this alert to all Mumbaikars. To make solid waste management work in the city, bmc is penalising
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Private players in forestry
THE NEW FORESTERS . Sushil Saigal, Hema Arora and SS Rizvi . March . 2002 The new role of private enterprise in the Indian forestry sector, that's essentially what this book talks about. In the
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Ousted by an IIT
IN 1987, the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi offered to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Assam as one of the sops to quell the student agitation in the state. Five years later, the