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. …
Roemer Lobbies With BJP Leaders For Civil Nuclear Liability Legislation WITH the civil nuclear liability bill running into a wall of resistance from the Opposition and facing lack of enthusiasm within Congress, US ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer has become the chief salesman for the domestic legislation. In an …
Obesity has recently emerged as a major global health problem. According to World Health Organization estimates, ≈1.6 billion adults worldwide were overweight (body mass index [BMI] ≥25 kg/m2) and at least 400 million were obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) in 2005, numbers that are expected to reach 2.3 billion and 700 …
WITH Congress leadership sharing some of the concerns raised by the sceptics of the civil nuclear liability bill, the government on Sunday said it was ready to consider Opposition
Fortis, Apollo & Max Enter Into Contracts With American Firms; Flow Of Patients Seeking Low-Cost Quality Healthcare Increases Writankar Mukherjee KOLKATA THE COUNTRY
Bowing to intense opposition pressure, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government withdrew the scheduled introduction of the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill in Parliament. The reasons were understandable
Public health professionals are worried about the increasingly vocal anti-vaccination lobby in the USA and other western countries and their effect on immunisations globally. .
ISLAMABAD (March 19 2010): United State (US) has agreed to extend $125 million to energy-starved Pakistan for rehabilitation of six hydro and thermal power plants, official sources told Business Recorder. The sources said US is expected to provide fund for repair and maintenance of units 1, 3 and 4 of …
United State (US) has agreed to extend $125 million to energy-starved Pakistan for rehabilitation of six hydro and thermal power plants, official sources told Business Recorder. The sources said US is expected to provide fund for repair and maintenance of units 1, 3 and 4 of Terbela Dam at an …
Akikikis are small birds with limber tongues that are adept at pulling insects from the crevices in tree bark. The olive-and-white birds are also headed towards extinction. Earlier this month, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) listed the akikiki as endangered and warned that global warming may hasten its …
Momentum carrying the bluefin tuna towards an endangered species listing - and an effective trade ban - appears to be slowing as key countries align themselves with Japan, which strongly opposes such a prohibition.
Upping the ante in a long-running trade spat with the United States, Brazil announced that it intends to break US patents and intellectual property rights in retaliation against Washington
New Delhi: Even though the US climate bill is in doldrums, the Obama administration is going to organise the 17-country Major Economies Forum meeting in April to spur debate with the key players, such as India and China. The MEF is the new avtar created by the Obama administration by …
About 25 per cent of Indian spices available in the US, such as cardamom, fenugreek and chilli powder, contain more than one microgram of lead per gram of product Young children who regularly ingest Indian spices and ceremonial powders like vermilion, or sindoor, may be exposed to lead, a dangerous …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is partnering with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and its Forest Department to manage Sri Lanka's valuable forest resources more effectively, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Embassy in Colombo. Maps of the northern forests have not …
This paper describes a method that uses published data to calculate locally robust CO2 emission factors for U.S. coal. The method is demonstrated by calculating CO2 emission factors by coal origin (223 counties, in 1999) and destination (479 power plants, in 2005). Locally robust CO2 emission factors should improve the …
Isolated over the civil nuclear liability bill, the government was forced to back off in the Lok Sabha on Monday when it decided to defer introducing the legislation in the face of spirited opposition from the Left and BJP, who were prepared to call a division on the legislation. Wary …
Beijing: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao indicated on Sunday he was snubbed by leaders of developed countries during the Copenhagen climate change summit. He was not given an invitation for the small-scope meeting although China
