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. …
Unprecedented hot weather in temperate climate the United States has taken the people unawares and made life difficult. It is the effect of climate change Americans are experiencing. From spell of scorching heat to tornadoes to heavy thundershowers as well as flood and draught have been occurring in many parts …
The World Trade Organisation will meet next week to hammer out an agreement on the modalities in agricultural and industrial goods issues of the Doha round. Strangely, in what was supposed to be a balanced development round, the focus will be solely on these two areas even as the rest …
It seems that Ranbaxy's troubles will not end soon. A US congressional committee is launching an investigation into the US Food and Drug Administration's role in handling the allegations that Ranbaxy sold potentially adulterated medicines, said a US media report. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has said that it …
Cancer survival rate varies widely between countries, according to a worldwide study of the cancers of the breast (women), colon, rectum and prostate. The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is the highest in the United States as compared to any of the 31 countries studied as part of the …
International agreements on climate change, food security and energy use could drift beyond reach if next week's Geneva talks on liberalising world trade collapse, Peter Mandelson, the European Union's chief trade negotiator, warned on Thursday. "The chances for a breakthrough are improving, but that breakthrough is not yet in the …
Oil prices plunged below $130 a barrel yesterday, extending a sharp three-day decline and fuelling a second day of big gains in stocks that lifted Wall Street out of bear market territory. The continued fall in oil, which last week reached a record high of $147.27, combined with the rally …
A new report offers suggestions on how to minimize the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. Climate change is threatening forests, rivers, wetlands, and coral reefs as well as the valuable, life-sustaining services that these ecosystems provide. A report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Center for Environmental …
Pb Jayakumar / Mumbai July 18, 2008, 0:40 IST US-based Abbot Laboratories has filed a suit against Dr Reddy's Laboratories for infringing the patent of Depakote ER, an anti-seizure or epilepsy drug with sales of over $1.48 billion (more than s 6,000 crore) in the American market. The lawsuit was …
After rising 15 per cent Wednesday, the Ranbaxy stock resumed its downward journey on reports in the US media that a US Congressional Committee will examine Ranbaxy's drug approvals in the US and potential violations of manufacturing regulations. The committee will also scrutinise the US drug regulator Food and Drug …
Upon entering Congress in 1987, Representative Nancy Pelosi quickly became part of the solid California front against oil drilling along much of the nation's coast. The Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 and the steady push to tap the potential reserves off the state's rugged coast had galvanized Californians and …
V. R. Krishna Iyer Sovereign India is justly sceptical about the Manmohan Singh government's specious nuclear strategy. There are shining victories to be won in the cause of peace and social justice. We shall reach the new freedom by not submitting to economic slavery
President Hamid Karzai appointed on Wednesday a team of experts to investigate allegations that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan, his office said. In April, an Afghan minister told the BBC that his government had evidence Pakistan had buried its nuclear waste in the southern Afghan provinces of …
Drug-maker filed response in US court yesterday. Under fire in the United States for giving distorted information on the generic drugs it sold, Ranbaxy Laboratories today said that it will file all relevant information within a month after which the legal case initiated against it by the US government will …
Opening and operating the nation's first nuclear waste dump will cost more than $90 billion, an Energy Department official said. The price was $58 billion in 2001, the last time the administration released an estimate for the Yucca Mountain project in Nevada. The estimate includes $9 billion already spent and …
Hundreds of pounds of garbage has washed onto Lake Michigan shores in recent days, leading to an investigation by the Coast Guard and the temporary closing of a public beach. Trash was strewn along a 10-mile stretch in Mason and Manistee Counties in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. Piles up to …
Nobody could ever seriously accuse the Bush administration of being too aggressive when it comes to enforcing the nation's environmental laws. But it was partly on those grounds that a federal court last week struck down the Clean Air Interstate Rule, a regulation aimed at reducing soot and smog and …
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday a first draft of a rule that will govern injecting carbon dioxide into underground storage. Development of such a rule is essential before companies can build power plants that will capture and store their carbon dioxide to limit the buildup of global warming …
An undersea earthquake measuring 6.3 points on the Richter scale struck the south-east Aegean island of Rhodes today, the Institute of Geodynamics at the National Observatory of Athens said. The US Geological Survey said earlier the quake measured 6.4 at a depth of 68 kilometres and 147 kilometres south-west of …
A huge wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest continued spreading north and east, relieving the danger to the coastal town of Big Sur but forcing residents of another community to stay out of their homes for a third day. Evacuation orders remained in place for more than 200 homes …
Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, will promise on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008, in a bid to shape the debate on carbon dioxide rules and to get a jump on compliance. Many academic researchers and …
