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. …
Did the Indian government guarantee Dow Chemicals, the parent company of Union Carbide, that it will not be held liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy? An RTI response has raised fresh questions over the government
Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan on his first foreign tour has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a US firm for the safety and security of public transport in the city. He signed the MoU with Mineta Transportation Institute in Los Angeles on Monday. With major parts of the …
Honey bees are complex eusocial insects that provide a critical contribution to human agricultural food production. Their natural migration has selected for traits that increase fitness within geographical areas, but in parallel their domestication has selected for traits that enhance productivity and survival under local conditions. Elucidating the biochemical mechanisms …
New Delhi: China has firstmover advantage but India stands to gain hugely in Afghanistan if its apparently huge mineral deposits are ready to be tapped. As reports spread about Afghanistan
In the form of non-woven cotton carbon absorbent wipes Houston: As British Petroleum struggles to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an Indian-origin scientist from Texas University has created a special cotton fabric that can clean up crude oil up to 40 times its weight and help …
The birds run into trouble when they dive for prey. From above, the water does not look so very different. And of course a bird has no way of knowing about the millions of gallons of oil that have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Human rights activists from all over the country, led by prominent Bhopal activist Abdul Jabbar, on Monday wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama drawing his attention to the gas leak issue after his tough stance towards the British Petroleum (BP) over the oil spill …
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits
Seeking justice for the gas leak victims, survivors of the tragedy have started a campaign to get signatures on a memorandum to be sent to US President Barack Obama.
With all eyes focused on the Parliamentary Sanding Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests, which is seized of the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, the BJP has made the first strategic move to counter the Government game-plan. The party has replaced its rather low-profile representative on the panel, Bhagirathi …
Abhineet Kumar / Mumbai June 15, 2010, 1:34 IST Move likely to delay the deployment of idle rigs by Aban Offshore. The six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to delay the deployment of idle rigs by Aban Offshore and impact the day rates for …
The world is currently experiencing the Ice Age called the Quarternary period. There have been five ice ages since the planet was born. Each of them was characterized by periods of lower temperatures and glacier formation, interspersed with periods of higher temperature. The glacial periods used to occur roughly at …
One might want to give up soft drinks to keep ageing at bay. A new research published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology on April 26 shows that high levels of phosphate in sodas and processed foods accelerate signs of ageing which include chronic kidney diseases, cardiovascular …
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) have scored yet another point in the “which is better” contest with monounsaturated acids (mufas)—and this time as a painkiller. While pufas are found in fish oil, soybean, corn, cottonseed, sesame and sunflower oil, dietary sources of mufas, are not far behind with must-eats: olive, canola …
On the analysis in his recent study I drew a large, random sample of papers from all disciplines declared to have tested a hypothesis and of which the main author was working in the US. I verified whether these papers were more or less likely to support the hypothesis they …
America’s war against Vietnam ended in 1975. Scars of the 13-year war remain even today. They were inflicted by a herbicide produced in the factories of one of the agro-biggies of our times: Monsanto. Agent Orange, the herbicide, affected more than three million civilians and servicemen. The World According to …
Footage>> Pollution • Ecuador/USA Nearly 200 filmmakers from all over the world have signed a petition protesting an American court’s strictures against the director of the critically-acclaimed documentary, Crude: The Real Price of Oil . On May 15 a New York court ordered director Joe Berlinger to hand over unused …
Television>> Online Broadcast • Armenia A popular independent Armenian television station plans to resume broadcast over the Internet more than eight years after it was taken off air by authorities, said the news agency Radio Free Europe. Mesrop Movsesian, the owner and director of the A1+ TV channel, said Armenians …
Here is a reason why people should eat organically grown food. A study in the US has linked attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) in children to pesticide residues in commercially grown fruits and vegetables they consume. Till now the disorder was either labelled as a hereditary disease or linked to …
