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. …
thai jasmine rice could soon suffer a similar fate as that of Indian basmati . The us is developing a new strain of the aromatic rice that is indigenous to Thailand. Under the research project, Chris Deren of the University of Florida, is altering original jasmine rice using gamma rays. …
post-Iraq, the us is gearing up for another fight. This time, it is over the export of genetically modified (gm) food to the eu. The us is moving the World Trade Organization (wto), along with Argentina, Canada and Egypt against the eu's "five-year moratorium' on allowing the sale of gm …
Electronic display Scientists in the us have developed an ultra-thin electronic display that could well transform into an e-newspaper. The black and white display is constructed from steel foil and is less than 0.3 millimetres thick. It can be viewed from most angles and can be even be bent to …
Is there the need for a multilateral framework to govern investments? Absolutely not. Firstly, foreign direct investments (fdi) may crowd out domestic investments and leave the host country worse off. Moreover, if the agreements were the major factor for fdi, then China should not be receiving any fdi. It does …
Iceland has moved one step closer to its goal of using only renewable sources of energy by the year 2030. It recently inaugurated the world's first hydrogen fuel station in the capital city of Reykjavik. "This is a major step toward a hydrogen society,' said Iceland's commerce and industry minister, …
Bayer AG has agreed to pay the US government US $257 million after it was found guilty of overcharging for its antibiotic drug Cipro. The company admitted to selling Cipro to healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente at a price lower than what it was billing the government-aided Medicaid programme. This action …
Cloning constraint: The cloning of humans and other primates may not be possible with current techniques, indicates an experiment. Normally, during the natural division of healthy cells, chromosomes duplicate and line up on a structure in the cell known as the
function openroad(){ var popurl="html/20030515_moreroads.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Foremost among the traditional approaches governments take is to increase existing road capacity (see table: More roads...). But how effective is this method? New roads and flyovers invite more traffic and get filled up within a few years. Experts argue that drivers are induced …
How is India responding to the crisis? In March 2003, the finance minister of Delhi, delivering his budget speech, promised more money so that the capital could become, as its chief minister has put it, "the flyover city of Asia". Think more road; give vehicles more space: this grand, now …
If the battle over failed farm trade talks in the World Trade Organisation (wto) wasn't enough, Brussels and Canberra look likely to clash again as eu members begin discussions on whether to allow imports of Australian wine treated with oak chips. Oak chips accelerate the process of flavouring the wine, …
A ccording to the World Bankif gdp grows at 7-8 per cent a year over the next decadethe demand for transport will grow by at least 10 per cent a year. The worsening traffic situation and increasing travel demand has compelled a number of cities to at least put up …
The hazards of cloning were revealed yet again after scientists in the us had to put to sleep one of two banteng calves they had cloned. The researchers took the step as the animal was "abnormally large'. While the "healthy' calf was normal in size (20 kilogrammes or kg), the …
The investigation into the Columbia shuttle disaster in February has thrown up a startling detail. Inaccurate computer data misled flight engineers into thinking that the shuttle could return safely to Earth, reveals the probe team. Scientists had concluded during the flight that a minor incident during lift-off
Scientists reveal that the us military bombarded Vietnam with greater quantities of Agent Orange and other defoliants than previously estimated. The findings were unearthed by a study spanning five years, conducted by us -based Columbia University's environmental health specialists. It also discloses that the defoliant sprays contained higher amounts of …
Rows of human hands hanging on inside claustrophobic buses, trams and metros…Bodies packed like sardines, jostling against each other...Tempers at breaking point. And outside, more chaos - thousands of cars, jeeps, vans, two-wheelers, three-wheelers…all groaning through a choking haze of pollution in interminable traffic jams that test one"s patience and …
reeling under a spate of unfavourable rulings in the World Trade Organisation (wto), the us was dealt yet another blow when the dispute settlement panel ruled recently that tariffs imposed on imports of certain steel products were illegal. Although the decision is an interim one, such rulings are rarely reversed. …
for some, it was the logical outcome of more than a decade of intensive research. For others, it was the culmination of a mind-boggling journey through uncharted territory. Either way, the recent completion of the human genome project is seen as a landmark development. And the breakthrough couldn't have been …
Solar energy users in California emerged victorious when the state Public Utilities Commission (puc) exempted them from paying an exit fee for leaving the state grid and generating their own power. The puc agreed to exempt many types of small renewable methods of self-generation of power by customers of utility …
The us military has resorted to using dolphins to clear mines in the war against Iraq. The marine mammals are trained not to make contact with the mines but to place floats near them. The us Navy contends that dolphins do not face any "significant' risk since they possess biological …
