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. …
Why conduct N-tests when accurate, N-armed missiles will deter better? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's long drawn out battle to end India's nuclear isolation is almost over. All that now remains is for the US Congress to endorse the 123 agreement. Contrary to a belief fostered by the Opposition, and swallowed …
CORPORATE America is investing millions of dollars in an intense lobbying effort to convince lawmakers in Congress to ratify the Indo-US civilian agreement, fearing it might otherwise lose opportunities to earn megabucks in an Indian nuclear industry poised to open its doors to foreign investments. For one, the US-India Business …
INDIA has broken the regional chains and emerged as the new geostrategic force in the world. The paradigm has shifted, the world has adjusted, the rules have changed and the nuclear isolation has ended. That it all happened largely on India's own terms makes the achievement that much more significant. …
Scot case was not happy. Vice president of the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were startling: of the 1,018 products TerraChoice surveyed, all but …
Buckyballs, tiny soccer ball-shaped carbon molecules that hold promise for uses ranging from novel drug-delivery systems to fuel cells, may threaten health by building up in fat, researchers said on Friday. The nanoparticles, one billionth of a meter wide, could potentially accumulate in fatty tissue of fish and other animals, …
US agriculture faces the daunting task of growing enough crops to meet the demands of both a hungry world and the booming new biofuels industry while reducing its impact on climate change. That formidable challenge hung over discussions this week at a US soybean industry conference that chewed over topics …
In his hotel room in Vienna, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon sat tensed waiting for the outcome of the plenary session of the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on September 6. He was conscious of the irony. The NSG was formed in 1974 as part of an angry reaction to India's …
Now, 925M Are Impoverished New York:A top UN agency has revealed that rising food prices have pushed 75 million more people into the ranks of the world
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday released an additional $800,000 in relief funds for recent flood victims in Sunsari and Saptari districts. According to a press statement issued by USAID/Nepal today, the amount is being released through the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). "The …
Leslie D`monte / Mumbai September 20, 2008, 0:32 IST Used electronic items such as monitors, computers and mobile phones from the US end up in countries like India and China, where disposal practices are unsafe to workers and dangerous to the environment. A new US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report …
Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago on Thursday unveiled perhaps the most aggressive plan of any major American city to reduce heat-trapping gases. The blueprint would change the city
The United States will give $8.4 million to Pakistan through the World Food Programme to provide approximately 11,000 metric tons of wheat for over 1,600,000 people, including students of 3,200 schools. The WFP will begin distributing food aid in 12 districts in the NWFP and Balochistan this month. An agreement …
Animals genetically engineered to produce drugs and healthier foods will be subjected to review to help protect consumers from any unknown risks, the US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday. The FDA published detailed proposed guidelines that producers of genetically engineered animals would have to follow to determine if …
THE U.S. BAN ON some medicines made by India's largest pharmaceutical company adds a black mark against India's booming drug and drug-testing industries, which already have been under pressure over the country's lax monitoring of drug safety. India's pharmaceutical industry was once the nemesis of U.S. drug companies, producing knock-off …
WASHINGTON: The U.S. House has approved a measure that would ease a longstanding ban on offshore oil drilling and try to spur greater use of alternative fuels as Democrats and Republicans engaged in a bitter pre-election clash over the nation's energy future. Under the Democratic legislation, adopted Tuesday night by …
BY MUKESH RANJAN With the Indo-US civil nuclear deal set to be clinched by the month-end, plans have been set afoot to prepare a roadmap for speedy implementation of projects augmenting nuclear energy in the country. For the purpose, ahead of his visit to the US next week, Prime Minister …
Private company Sapphire Energy, which aims to squeeze "green" crude oil from blooms of one of the planet's oldest life forms, said on Wednesday it has raised over US$100 million from investors. The San Diego-based company hopes to make commercial amounts of the fuel in three to five years for …
