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. …
A controversial British documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle' unfairly portrays several scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Britain's television watchdog agency ruled on Monday. The agency, the Office of Communication, issued a report rebuking Channel 4 in Britain, which broadcast "Swindle' last year. But the report …
Backed by over 100 developing countries, India, Brazil and South Africa will take on the rich nations to get a fair trade deal at the WTO meeting of key trade ministers' beginning here on Monday. Against a backdrop of high crude oil prices and global food crisis, the World Trade …
In the end, global warming is what could get us the N-deal soon DR Manmohan Singh's announcement that India would approach the iaea with a draft safeguards agreement for approval within days of his return from Japan has lifted the pall of shame that had been gathering around the country …
Hyderabad, July 20: The state is vying for a mega solar energy plant proposed by the Clinton Foundation in the United States. The plant, which will come up in 25,000 acres with an investment of $20 billion, is expected to generate 5,000 MW of power using various ways of tapping …
Bloomberg / Dallas July 21, 2008, 0:44 IST US fuel consumption fell 3 per cent in the first half of 2008, the biggest decline for the period in 17 years, as high prices and a slowing economy curbed demand, an oil industry report today showed. Deliveries of petroleum products declined …
It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general. Extreme weather occurred before humans …
When global trade talks ran into the night in Geneva in the summer of 2006, so many negotiators crammed into one room that they had to choose between sweltering with the windows closed or opening them and fending off swarms of insects. Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World …
Gray wolves in the greater Yellowstone area of the northern Rocky Mountains, which would have been fair game for hunters in three states as a result of a federal government decision in March, were again put under the protections of the Endangered Species Act by a judge in Montana on …
By Lawrence K. Altman Plans for a large human trial of a promising government-developed HIV vaccine in the United States were canceled Thursday because a top federal official said scientists realized that they did not know enough about how HIV vaccines and the immune system interact. The decision is a …
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested a U.S. national of Indian origin here in the case of wheat import from Australia by the public sector State Trading Corporation (STC) in 1998. The agency reopened the case on July 7 this year, conducted searches at several places …
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: Three of the country's top nuclear scientists have said that once the nuclear deal is in place, India's commercial nuclear interaction with other countries will be "firmly controlled' by Washington through the Hyde Act enforced through the U.S. "stranglehold' on the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The scientists
N. Ravi On balance, it becomes clear that the advantages overwhelmingly outweigh any threat or flaw and the nuclear deal is as good a deal as any government can negotiate. The vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22 is historic for the reason that it is the closest Parliament …
Former US president Bill Clinton has roped in four Indian and two Chinese pharmaceutical firms to cut the price of anti-malarial drugs by a whopping 30 per cent, which is likely to benefit 500 million people worldwide. The firms have also agreed to lower the price volatility of artemisinin, the …
Two US Congress members have expressed doubts over the quality of inspections conducted by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) on Indian drug manufacturing facilities. Congressmen John Dingell and Bart Stupak have said the ongoing FDA-Ranbaxy row over alleged supply of "fraudulently approved and manufactured" medicines by Ranbaxy in …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai July 19, 2008, 0:40 IST Amid reports of a US Congress probe against India's largest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, data show that many leading multinational companies such as Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Merck are also under the scanner of the US drug regulator, for more …
Americans spend $700 billion a year on foreign oil. According to one observer, this is an addiction, a crisis, and a trap. The country must pursue alternative energy sources as fiercely as it once shot for the moon. So far, so much liberal boilerplate. The critic in question, however, is …
Vienna, July 18: Lobbying for the Indo-US nuclear deal, India on Friday briefed the IAEA board of governors and some NSG countries on the safeguards agreement amid reports there was no sign of opposition to the accord. After discussing with IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei the text of the India-specific safeguards …
