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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Protein enriched GM potato
Scientists have come up with a home-grown genetically modified (gm) potato. This ubiquitous vegetable has now been fortified with proteins derived from an amaranth (Amaranthus) species through
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Hope or hype?
CMP: thrust correct, implementation a challenge
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Crushed by the crushers
A month in prison drives man to suicide
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A concession called SEZ, all for foreign exchange
Special Economic Zones barter away democracy
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Coming to terms with nature
Book>> Socialist Register 2007 Coming to Terms with Nature
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Corporate care for mine workers
Mine workers' safety has moved beyond fulminations of activists and official confabulations. To corporate circles, it seems, going by an ad issued by Simplex, an engineering products company located
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Eco triumphs
THE latest statement of the Konkan Railway Corporation (KRC) based in Goa, regarding the delay of the execution of the 760 krn Roha-Mangalore railway route due to key consructional hazards have
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Full of loopholes
THE draft of the Biological Diversity Act which is soon expected to be tabled in Parliament, is full of loopholes, says Vandana Shiva, director the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and
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Ecofriendly moves
with an aim to conserve the vanishing flora and fauna of the city, the Delhi Development Authority (dda) has decided to set up a biodiversity foundation soon. The head of the foundation would be
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Jumbo research
A team of experts from the Asian Elephant Research Centre (aerc), Bangalore, took an important step forward when they radio-collared two more elephants in the Buxa Tiger Reserve area of northern West