Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
In 2001, then-Surgeon General David Satcher issued a landmark statement that obesity had reached epidemic proportions in America. The country began to react, but slowly. As the F as in Fat report has documented over the previous six years, efforts to address the skyrocketing rise of obesity rates and obesity-related …
Imagine a new kind of food, dramatically lowered in fat, salt and sugar but tasting just as good as the real thing - in fact, it is the real thing. Thanks to nanotechnology, such foods could soon become reality. Yet their promising future is already in jeopardy. Because the food …
Nothing says summer holidays quite like ice cream. On a hot afternoon by the sea, there's little to beat the simple pleasure of a cooling scoop of your favourite flavour. Can food get much more satisfying than this? Vic Morris thinks it can, with the help of nanotechnology. He is …
SMALL FARMERS WHO SUPPLY THE TUBER TO PEPSI HAVE BENEFITED A LOT SUNIPA DAS GUPTA & ASHOK GULATI WHEN POTATO PRICES CROSSED THE Rs 20-per-kg mark a few months ago, the consumer had to pay through her nose and cried for relief. In tandem with general expectation, arrival of the …
In further confirmation of under utilisation of funds by the North Eastern States (NES), at least 12 Central Ministries and Departments have shown significant shortfall in expenditures in the North Eastern Region (NER). The reasons for declining expenditures: absence of proposals and utilisation certificates from the NES, as the broad …
ITANAGAR, April 30: The Central Government is more than eager to promote food-processing industry in Arunachal Pradesh, which has immense potential in this sector provided initiatives are taken in right earnest. This was disclosed by Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), Amrit Lal Meena today while interacting …
A party is on. A slim woman looks wistfully at a platter of rice but decides to have just a spoonful. Enter a plump woman who asks her to have more; she declines. “We know why you cannot eat rice,” hints the television commercial as it shows the plump woman’s …
Siliguri: More than 75 per cent of the bought-leaf factories in north Bengal have closed down because of acute shortage of tea leaves triggered by low rain and pest attacks during the time of first flush when the best quality brew is produced. To tide over the crisis, BLF owners …
Alliance, Likely To Be A 50:50 JV, May Initially Consider Wellness Packaged Water THE proposed Tata Tea-PepsiCo joint venture for noncarbonated, health and wellness beverages is believed to be exploring the low-cost, bottom-of-pyramid segment of beverages. Two officials close to the development told ET that the JV is considering leveraging …
HARDLY a week goes by without a food brand announcing a health initiative as they seek to position themselves as a force for good in the fight against obesity. Last week, for example, PepsiCo UK unveiled its inaugural Health Report, a 10-year strategy intended to make its brands, which include …
This WRI report assesses financial implications of climate change and water scarcity on the Food & Beverage sector in South & Southeast Asia. Warns that as a large water user, this sector is at risk from decreasing water supplies in parts of emerging Asia , specially India. This report identifies …
The objective of the study was to analyze the macronutrient, micronutrient, food intake pattern, anthropometry, and lipid profile of urban Asian Indian adolescents and young adults and compare it with the nutrient profile of rural Asian Indian and American adolescents.
Seema Sindhu / New Delhi March 29, 2010, 0:32 IST The Ministry of Food Processing Industry (MoFPI) plans to hold a meeting with related ministries to reduce duplication of functions. The meeting with the ministries of agriculture, commerce and rural development is expected to take place next week. MoFPI believes …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahay today advised the State Government to lay equal emphasis on food processing industries like it has given to mineral-based industries and incentivise the sector to attract more investment. Addressing a public information campaign on Bharat Nirman, a flagship infrastructure development …
As the Romanian Government considers introducing a far-reaching fast food tax that covers both sweet and savoury snacks, experts warn of potential stumbling blocks. Ed Holt reports.
Despite price boil, dairy industry most competitive globally Growing Interest Of Local & GLobal Cos Likely To Double Sector Size To Rs 5,20,000 Cr By 2011 DOMESTIC consumers may be feeling the pinch of an upspiral in milk prices over the last several months but milk production in India is …
With the municipal polls coming up in a few months and the Assembly elections slotted for next year, the Left Front government in West Bengal led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday hoped to recover lost grounds by presenting a Budget that promises more jobs, puts emphasis on agriculture rather than …
The Left Government in Kerala seems to be bracing for another war on softdrink giants Pepsico and Coca-Cola. An Assembly panel, constituted to look into the ground water exploitation by the Pepsico bottling plant at Pudussery in Palakkad on Wednesday submitted the report in the House, suggesting that drawing of …
