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. …
This summer if you use a prickly heat powder manufactured by Emami think of Agricon Agropreneurs Limited. The Raipur-based public limited company supplies mentha, a common ingredient in many beauty products, to the cosmetic major. Set up two years ago, Agricon has given farmers much-needed clout in their dealings with …
How green is my country? Indians are asking the question but not doing enough. ... Debarshi Dasgupta Gurgaon has long been celebrated as a shining example of a vibrant, flourishing, 21st-century India. But last month it presented itself as a showcase of the grave environmental crisis that stares India in …
Sandip Das Launched in February 2006, UPA government's mega National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which for the first time guaranteed 100 days of manual labour to each rural household, continue to make news for all the right as well as wrong reasons. Initially launched in the 200 backward districts …
Jacquelyn Hayes highlights a method for better biogas production biogas plants don't function well when ambient temperatures are low and hence remain out of use for the greater part of the year
Insects in the tropics have been found to be on the wrong side of global warming, says Kirtiman Awasthi Contrary to popular belief that global warming will lead to a population explosion in insects, a recent study claims otherwise. It says the phenomenon will lead to the extinction of insects …
COCA COLA, which is at the centre of a raging water usage controversy in India, has for the first time admitted to the full gravity of the water problem surrounding its plants in the country. The US soft drinks MNC has announced that it would more than fully compensate for …
COCA COLA, which is at the centre of a raging water usage controversy in India, has for the first time admitted to the full gravity of the water problem surrounding its plants in the country. The US soft drinks MNC has announced that it would more than fully compensate for …
The duty on buses which carry more people is the same as that on small cars, such is our warped policy. After much vacillation and prevarication, the government has finally done the inevitable
INGOLSTADT: As per international media reports, Audi A1 supermini is expected to go on sale in March 2010. The company's secret documents were leaked which has indicated that the car would be on sale in 2010. Also international media has reported Audi A1's new line-up of four-cylinder launch engines. The …
Estuarine mangrove forests are a priceless environmental, cultural and aesthetic legacy. And ours have begun to drown My colleague Pradip Saha has been filming in Ghoramara, an island in the Sunderban delta, to understand why, in this zone suspended between land and water, people talk of nothing but subsidence. Savita's …
The Planning Commission wants to douse this 'spreading bushfire of rural discontent' -Neha Sakhuja and Savvy Soumya Mishra Land alienation, poverty amongst scheduled tribes and dalits and lack of access to basic forest resources have contributed to the growth of naxalism, says the Planning Commission. Its report, Development challenges in …
G.S. MUDUR This is a question you'd surely ask yourself while buying a car: how much petrol does it guzzle compared with other models? Such fuel-efficiency data exist
The draft transport agreement between the UP and Delhi governments is a step ahead for the Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority appointed by the Supreme Court to monitor government projects with the aim of preventing pollution by decongesting the city. Stating that for interstate public transport, nothing short of …
India's rural activists for years have blamed the overuse and misuse of pesticides for a pervasive health crisis that afflicts villages like Jhajjal across the cotton belt of Punjab. Evidence continues to mount that the problems are severe. Last month, a government-funded study revealed that chemical fertilizers and pesticides have …
at the fag end of the monsoon session of Parliament last year, 28 parliamentarians and politicians, including veterans like Motilal Vohra and Natwar Singh, sent a letter urging human resources development (hrd) minister Arjun Singh to serve biscuits
Regulation on lobbying a dream According to Jayoti Lahiri, secretary general, Public Relations Consultants Association of India, "There is very little literature on the functioning of public relations agencies in India, hence we along with the Personal Relations Council of India are trying to approach independent agencies to form some …
Lobbyists crawl around legislators An Action Aid report on lobbying, released on January 25, 2006, highlights privileges enjoyed by corporate lobbyists in framing global trade rules under the WTO regime. The report exposes the underbelly of corporate lobbying that has led to unfair trade laws and undermined the fight against …
As more vehicles turn to CNG, the number of filling stations is proving to be inadequate Spiralling prices of crude oil are ringing alarm bells for the green fuel policy in the Capital. As more and more private vehicle owners switch to CNG and the government makes CNG mandatory for …
From SLAPPs to hiring professional protesters, industry's working overtime to find new ways to attack. In the first week of April this year, a group of men came and stood outside the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. They carried placards with offensive slogans directed at me. We …
