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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How much should a person consume?
Book>> How Much Should A Person Consume, Thinking Through The Environment
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Cochrane library's database not an unequivocal blessing
The Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr) has recently purchased access rights to contents published in the uk-based Cochrane library's website. It contains evidence to assist decision-making
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'Privatisation has increased rural neglect'
The northeast has been badly affected by ethnic strife. DILIP GOGOI of Cotton College, Guwahati, on its vulnerability Are ethnic conflicts more frequent in the northeast compared to other parts
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Dispute over status of forestland in MP, Chhattisgarh
the Supreme Court on August 24, 2007, ordered Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh governments to respond to a petition to clarify the status of at least 1.2 million hectares (ha). Called Orange area
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Y2K, and all that
Though India woke up late to the millennium bug, most large organisations seem on course to fix the problem
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Dirty detergents
Detergents are rated for how ecofriendly they are
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All for nothing
THE controversy over irradiated food may finally die a subdued death. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay, has decreed that the opposition of the Bombay west suburban branch of
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Tribal onslaughts
TOUGHENING their Stand against any measures which could Ultimately displace them are the tribals of four hamlets - Rallavalasa, Karagavalasa, Tuburti and Nimmalapadu - in Visakhapatnam, Andhra
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Trouble underground
HEAVY flow of water has rendered the country's only underground salt mine at Gumma in Himachal Pradesh unsafe. Some of the salt from the rocks gets dissolved due to the heavy flow of water which,
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Know your poison
LACK of proper knowledge about poisoning and the use of antidotes leads to a number of deaths in the sub-continent. Now the first National Poisons Information Centre has been set up at the All