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. …
Most food items contain toxins like mercury, pesticides and acrylamide that can affect children in the long run Even healthy food like fruit, vegetables, meat and fish might be putting children’s health at risk. These food items also contain toxins like mercury, pesticides and acrylamide that can, over a long …
Twenty-two organisations from across the country have written to members of the National Water Resources Council (NWRC) and chief ministers, demanding that village gram sabhas, wards in cities and civil society groups concerned should be involved in the formulation the national water policy. The organisations have urged the NWRC to …
Direct cash transfers may curb migration among those who need to be at their native place to benefit from cash transfer The country’s poor are bracing for what is dubbed as a potential game changer in the delivery of development. To monetise its support for the poor, the government has …
The GI craze in India is as inexplicable as the ways in which the Registry grants it People of Hoovina Hadagali (population: 27,958), the taluka headquarters of Bellary district of Karnataka, are inordinately proud of their variety of mallige (jasmine). So are the growers from Udipi and Mysore, all of …
In an effort to curb the rapid dieselisation, the Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) has called for a proposal to impose both a one time green tax on new cars and also reintroduce the system of owners paying an annual tax on diesel cars. The EPCA describes this …
Since cities have little money to cover operational costs of running buses, they do not invest in new buses or modern infra Liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother – both died recently in a fratricide – had another business that is not widely known. They had acquired the concession …
The illegal mining in the mountains along Khaniara village is continuing despite ban orders of the Himachal High Court. When The Tribune team visited the area, slates mined illegally from mountains were being brought openly to the market of Khaniara village. Trucks of slates were being loaded and sent out. …
The ministry of urban transport is giving a major push to improve ridership in bus transport services across all major Indian cities by 2020. Delhi and Pune are targeting a ridership of 80 per cent, while Kolkata and Bangaluru are targeting 90 per cent each. Unfortunately, poor management and operational …
AN explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world’s fastest growing cause of death according to a major study of global diseases. In 2010, more than 2.1m people in Asia died prematurely from air pollution, mostly …
According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer. Around 65 per cent of the air pollution deaths occur in Asia and close to quarter of this in India. Reacting …
According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer. Around 65 per cent of the air pollution deaths occur in Asia and close to quarter of this in India. Reacting …
Study published by Lancet says surge in car use in south and east Asia killed 2.1m people prematurely in 2010 An explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world's fastest growing cause of death according to …
The ongoing extension of the electric grid to the remote islands of Sundarbans will not only adversely affect the viability of existing renewable energy projects, but will also accelerate the process of climate change, experts say. “In view of the growing threat of climate change and contribution of the electricity …
India needs to wake up to the threat from rising air pollution, which has been declared as one of the top 10 killers in the world by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, which tracks deaths and illnesses from all causes across the world. According to the latest GBD, …
19 commodities are to be covered by the new labelling rule India might not have started growing genetically modified (GM) food crops, but it does import food products that contain GM ingredients. Consumers who buy them have no way of knowing what they contain. Recently, the department of consumer affairs, …
CORTALIM: Contrary to claims by Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) of minimal environment impact on its expansion projects, the New Delhi-based Centre for Science & Environment has alleged several flaws in the MPT’s Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report. CSE has highlighted the shortcomings in the EIA for the controversial 7.2 MMTPA …
"The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission will be in the second phase starting from 2013 up to 2017. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has therefore come up with its draft policy document on the programmes for the second phase. The document is available for public comments. The draft …
Of the total number of green buildings that have come up in the whole of India, only 0.58 per cent of them have been built in northern India. Such is the state of affairs even though the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) was introduced by the Union Ministry of Conservation …
During a public event at the United Nations climate change conference in Doha, India's veteran environmentalist Sunita Narain told a senior negotiator from India, "The Indian government should take a principled stand and walk out of the Doha climate talks if equity is not made a part of the deal." …
Despite a straight hike of Rs.5 in diesel prices earlier this year, consumption of diesel in Delhi surged by 15 per cent in 2011-12, reflecting the soaring number of diesel vehicles on the Capital's roads. In comparison, consumption of petrol dipped by nearly 1.5 per cent in the same period. …
