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 May 1833, Daniel Wilson, Calcutta's Lord Bishop, wrote to his family in England: "The weather is perfectly suffocating. None can pity us but those who know our sufferings. The mind, body, functions, tempers, words, and feelings are all morbidly affected…a constant heat which unnerves, depresses, annihilates the European mind …
In a match that pitted video game players against a computer programme, the gamers outperformed the software in figuring out how 10 proteins fold into their three-dimensional configurations. Proteins are essentially biological nano-machines that carry out myriad functions in the body. The biologists have long sought to understand how the …
On 27 May 2010, with crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the Obama administration announced it would pause offshore drilling plans in the Arctic Ocean, one of the planet’s most pristine ecosystems. Hailed by environmental groups, the decision was …
rc rajamani NEW DELHI, 29 AUG: It was a week that saw parliament pushing for increased nuclear power generation for an energy-thirsty nation and also for putting more money into the pockets of the lawmakers. The two relevant legislation were in the half-way stage as the Bills concerned still awaited …
The Copenhagen Accord was cobbled together in hasty closed-doors consultations in the final hours of the failing climate meet by a select group of 26 countries. The Accord did not even get the imprimatur of the UNFCCC. Copenhagen failed to deliver a comprehensive and legally binding emissions reduction treaty. Copenhagen …
Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: The Centre is firm on pressing for an additional Rs 1,500-Rs 2,000 crore from Dow Chemicals, which has taken over Union Carbide, to provide adequate compensation to lakhs of Bhopal gas tragedy victims. Recent exchange of emails between Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh …
May Have To Pay Up To $20 B To Clean Up Areas Polluted Due to Faulty Drilling In Equador Hugh Bronstein LAGO AGRIO, ECUADOR ARUN-DOWN court building that also houses the local casino in this Amazon jungle town is the unlikely venue for the largest environmental damages lawsuit ever tried. …
A DISTRICT court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration
Read this Discussion in Lok Sabha on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010.The bill has been approved after the government agreed to opposition’s demand for strengthening a contentious provision relating to suppliers' liability in the legislation. See Also Report: Parliamentary Committee on Nuclear Liability Bill www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/313253 Bill: Civil Liability …
Some Drugs May Never Reach Where They Are Tested: StudyNew York: A law intended to speed up development of new drugs for US kids has ended up financing clinical trials in poor countries, where the medicines might never become available. That
Some Drugs May Never Reach Where They Are Tested: StudyNew York: A law intended to speed up development of new drugs for US kids has ended up financing clinical trials in poor countries, where the medicines might never become available. That
Narayan Lakshman Washington: The persistence of a giant plume of oil in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the long-term impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill may be worse than earlier assumed, a scientific study has revealed. In the latest issue of Science magazine, researchers at the Woods Hole …
Narayan Lakshman WASHINGTON: India and the U.S. on Friday formally signed an agreement for cooperation on a joint Clean Energy Research Development Centre. The agreement follows from the discussions held between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama during the former's visit to Washington in November 2009. At the …
Washington: The United States said on Friday the Bhopal gas tragedy was a closed case now. State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley was answering reporters' questions on the issue. Later, the State Department official clarified that legally the case was closed. Sympathy and concern
United States has provided $1.5 million of funding to UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) agency to help it establish an additional 40 treatment centres to fight water-borne diseases in the 'high risk' flood-affected areas of Pakistan. The grant brings to 55 the number of US-funded treatment centres in the hardest …
Washington, 19 Aug: The United States has denied reports that it was trying to link the Bhopal gas tragedy with India-US investment ties by suggesting a "lot of noise" over the issue could have a "chilling effect" on them. "The assertion that there was linkage between two separate and distinct …
Indira Kannan / New York August 20, 2010, 0:09 IST The United States moved quickly on Wednesday to deny that it attempted to influence any action the Indian government might seek to take against The Dow Chemical Company over the Bhopal gas disaster in return for US support on a …
A member of student group hold a placard as she participates in a demonstration to express solidarity with the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors in Bangalore. File photo AP A member of student group hold a placard as she participates in a demonstration to express solidarity with the Bhopal gas tragedy …
