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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
In the absence of ration card, many homeless are not entitled to welfare benefits offered by the government CHENNAI: The voters' identity card of 28-year-old homemaker B. Bavani gives her address as
For India's business houses and entrepreneurs, health care could be one of the most promising and rewarding sectors Arvind Singhal / New Delhi October 7, 2010, 0:26 IST The exceptionally high occupancy rate of hospital beds in the National Capital Region (NCR) in recent weeks may be partly due to …
SHILLONG: The growth rate of electricity production in India is less than that of its demand. This worrying fact was revealed in a national workshop held to create awareness about the need to conserve en-ergy. "The elect-ricity demand in the country is growing by 10 to 12 per cent which …
RIYAZ WANI While Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh believes glacier melting has little to do with climate change, expert Dr Shakeel Ramshoo has rung the alarm bells, saying the Valley
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London July 28, 2009, 0:53 IST Campaigners from Hamburg-based (Germany) think-tank World Future Council, along with British charity ActionAid, today protested against the Church of England and Middlesbrough Borough Council for investing their pension funds in UK-based metals and mining company Vedanta Resources Plc (with an …
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc.
Kalliammal is busy gathering harvested gingerly seed crops and piling them up in a heap and does not notice us as we enter the village. A quick glance around, will tell you that many of her neighbours are in a hurry as well. It
