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First food: business of taste

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. …
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US experts will help build sanitary landfills

MUMBAI: If the MMRDA has its way, American landfill experts will soon visit Mumbai's dumping sites, prod the garbage, take samples of the slush, analyse it and then suggest ways to create new sanitary landfills in the region. MMRDA commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, who is back after a short visit to …

US raises climate pitch, India firm

RAMESH RAMACHANDRAN HILLARY MEETS PM TODAY: STILL SOFT ON PAK TERROR Today in Delhi 10 AM: Visit to Delhi University 12.15 PM: Call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 7 Race Course Road 2.50 PM: Meeting with L.K. Advani at his residence: 30 Prithiviraj Road 5.30 PM: Meeting with Sonia …

Agriculture, most important area of India-U.S. collaboration: Hillary

Devesh K. Pandey NEW DELHI: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said agriculture would be the strongest and most important pillar of cooperation between the United States and India. During a visit to the Indian Agricultural Research Institute here (IARI), Ms. Clinton said:

Now, onion juice to light up homes

Los Angeles: Onions make you cry, add flavor to food and are touted for their medicinal benefits. Now the vegetable has another use

Backs Indias tech route to raising crop yield

Days after the government said it was planning to introduce genetically modified food crops in the country in three years, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gave a clear indication of the US administration

Clinton goes to Pusa, hints farm grants may be coming Indias way

The visiting US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, indicated that Indian agriculture might get funds from the $20 billion pledged by the G8 countries to boost agriculture output during the recent summit in Italy.

India to US: Wont take binding emission limit

Refusing to be pushed by the US on putting a cap on emissions, India on Sunday said it would not accept any

Cant pledge statutory CO2 cuts: India to US

INDIA firmly reiterated its position that it was not in a position to take on legally binding targets on reducing emissions. This statement came even as US secretary of state Hillary Clinton accepted that developed countries had made

US package for India to fight hunger soon

AMIT AGNIHOTRI The Indo-US cooperation in the agriculture sector is all set for a big push with the US likely to unveil a huge financial package to help India fight hunger and achieve its food security target. "We will be announcing five pillars of our cooperation with India on Monday. …

Remarks following ITC green building tour and discussion

The transcript of remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to New Delhi. Seeking India's proactive cooperation for a new global climate deal, she made a strong pitch for low-carbon economy and assured that Washington will "not do anything that will limit India's economic progress".

Don't repeat US mistakes on climate change: Clinton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US made mistakes that added to global warming and said India should not repeat them.

More trouble likely for Indian biopharma companies in US

Nina Mehta MUMBAI INDIAN biopharmaceutical companies may face more hurdles in the US. This is on the back of the US Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee having approved an amendment that will protect biotech developers from generic competition for 12 years. Though the amendment is yet to be …

Climate negotiator on Clinton team has Congress worried

New Delhi: With Hillary Clinton landing in India along with key climate negotiator Todd Stern, disquiet has seeped into the Congress about how the government may deal with pressure on an issue that will be central to the US secretary of state

Fight the flab to fend off swine flu

Statistics from the US indicating a link between swine flu deaths and obesity point to potential new ways to fend off the virus.

India prepares strategy for Clinton

Jyoti Malhotra / New Delhi July 17, 2009, 0:03 IST The air is hotting up on climate change negotiations between developing countries, such as India and China, and the developed world, with the government now preparing to tell US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton later this week that

GM food can cause the biggest health crisis'

Q&A;:Gilles-Eric Seralini Latha Jishnu / New Delhi July 17, 2009, 0:12 IST For a country that doesn

Punjab, US company ink pact for solar power project

Chandigarh: A memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up of 5 MW solar power project in Punjab was inked between Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) and the US-based Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) Group in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. EBS president Jessie Singh said this project …

India, US to ink deal on launch of satellites

An Algerian satellite with US-controlled components is expected to be the first satellite to be launched by India after the Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) is signed between India and the US. The deal is expected to be signed during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit. Algeria

Climate negotiations

Nitin Desai / New Delhi July 16, 2009, 0:43 IST India must be proactive in ensuring a successful outcome at Copenhagen as that is in our national interest. The climate negotiations are warming up as we get closer to December when a global deal has to be sealed at Copenhagen. …

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