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. …
After a lengthy scientific review, the United States last week decided to ban the use of endosulfan, an inexpensive organochlorine pesticide that builds up in the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled that the compound
Sandip Das Quality Indian mangoes have been satiating the appetite of discerning US consumers for the last couple of years. This is thanks to the sea-route trade and a new irradiation facility that checks weevils and fruits flies in mangoes, assuaging the food safety concerns of the US health authorities. …
Sreeram Chaulia Disruptive crises have historically shaken the status quo and generated inflection points, which portend profound changes in the direction of policy and behaviour. The gravity of a sudden and life-threatening problem, for which no easy solution is available from the toolkit of existing ways and means, focuses anxious …
AS THE US sought clarification on the Sino-Pak nuclear deal, China has come out in strong defence of its decision to engage Pakistan in the civilian nuclear sector by setting up two nuclear reactors. The nuclear cooperation between the two countries has been opposed by the US and is being …
JACKIE CALMES and HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON The White House June 16: The White House and BP tentatively agreed on Wednesday that the oil giant would create a $20 billion fund to pay claims for the worst oil spill in American history. The fund will be independently run by Kenneth Feinberg, …
Obama Meets BP Chairman, Chief Executive At White House BRITISH energy giant BP Plc reached a tentative agreement with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to place about $20 billion in a special fund to pay damage claims from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A source with knowledge of the …
Ronojoy Banerjee New Delhi: India is gearing up to strongly oppose any move by developed countries to impose a carbon tax on developing economies in the next World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting. According to a senior government official, India is preparing to take on the West on this contentious issue, …
Washington: US President Barack Obama, seeking to counter an image of detached leadership of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will demand on Wednesday that BP Plc set aside billions of dollars to pay damages from the catastrophe. A day after he vowed to fight the spill
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama took the unusual step of speaking directly to the American people in a televised address from the Oval Office in the White House. Earlier presidents have also gone on TV in the Oval Office, but usually at times of war. Here, Mr Obama was …
Warren M. Anderson New Delhi: Comments by key players in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy give an indication of the exit of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from India. A TV channel reproduced the bytes of Mr. Anderson and the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh before …
NEW DELHI: The Manmohan Singh-led government is under pressure from Washington on the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill and the proposed legislation bears the handiwork of the U.S. nuclear industry lobby. Hence it must be scrapped. This was stated by Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat in the …
ISLAMABAD (June 16 2010): Pakistan and United States on Tuesday agreed to continue working together to modernise Pakistan's agriculture to ensure food security; foster economic growth; alleviate poverty and enhance rural employment. Delegates from both the sides agreed during the 3rd meeting of the Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture under the …
The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico down south is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced, US President Barack Obama has said. 'This oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced. And unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single …
Brown A Better Option, Is Rich In Vitamins And Minerals, Says Research Washington: In a finding which has implications for Asians, including Indians, whose staple food is rice, scientists claim to have found that eating white rice could increase one
Narayan Lakshman Washington: Dow Chemical Company, which owns the erstwhile Union Carbide Company that was behind the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, might have systematically sought to pre-empt the judicial outcome of the case by putting pressure on officials at the Indian embassy in Washington, it has emerged. This was …
