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. …
Moscow: Russian firefighters on Sunday battled the flames from spreading forest fires that have already killed 30 people, destroyed thousands of homes and mobilised hundreds of thousands of emergency workers. The emergency situations ministry said on Sunday that forest fires had engulfed more than 128,500 hectares across Russia. It mobilised …
Peshawar: The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 on Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water. The rescue effort was aided by a slackening of the monsoon rains that have caused the worst flooding in …
Bangalore: The scheme that brings smiles to lakhs of children across the country every afternoon is also eating into teaching and learning time. Teachers in many states spend one to two hours daily on activities related to cooked midday meal (CMDM) while children in nine states wash utensils every day. …
New Delhi: Five new cases of dengue were detected in Delhi on Sunday, taking the number of people affected by the mosquitoborne disease this year to 57, said a senior medical officer.
In high-end private hospitals, patients are not allowed to buy medicines from outside, which are priced up to 400% less than what the hospital charges Abantika Ghosh | TNN Insurance companies who stopped cashless insurance facility in some private hospitals smelling a rat in the billing process, may have had …
New Delhi: Going purely on the assurances of Andhra Pradesh government, the Union environment and forests ministry has cleared the longpending case of diverting 3,831 hectares of forest land for Rs 8,000-crore Polavaram project on Godavari river in AP meant to provide irrigation water to four districts. The clearance came …
Clause-By-Clause Discussion On Bill Deferred, No New Date Fixed New Delhi: The civil nuclear liability bill may have been the priority number one for the government just a few months back, but now it faces the uphill task of getting past the standing committee on science and technology. It is …
Nearly 15 months of double-digit food inflation has led most Indians to make painful cuts in their daily meals. TOI finds poor families across the country being forced into dietary choices that are sowing the seeds of an acutely malnourished future generation Rukmini Shrinivasan | TIG After nearly 15 straight …
Pune: The second wave of the pandemic H1N1 influenza has struck and its infection rate is likely to be higher than the first wave, according to the National Institute of Virology (NIV). The wave is currently strong in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, an NIV official said, adding that there
New Delhi: The nation has developed an indigenous swine flu detection kit, which comes close on the heels of an homegrown swine flu vaccine. As the country reels under a fresh H1N1 swine flu outbreak
New Delhi: With the fate of civil liability for nuclear damage bill getting enmeshed with stalemated ties with Left and fresh hostilities with BJP, the government is open to defining responsibilities for a nuclear accident more closely. The government is open to inserting clauses that will cover eventualities like accidents …
New Delhi: The Union ministry for environment and forests has set up a fourmember committee headed by retired environment secretary Meena Gupta to investigate if the Orissa government has complied with the Forest Rights Act at the Posco site. The ministry
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday gave green signal to reintroduce cheetah in three locations in the country. The project will cost around Rs 300 crore in the first year itself and will also displace over 100 settlements. Ramesh said the …
New Delhi: The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) told the Delhi high court that 911 more low-floor buses would be put on the road before the Commonwealth Games to address the traffic problem in the national capital. Appearing before a division bench of Justices A K Sikri and Reva Khetrapal, DTC …
Cabinet To Take Up Lower Rates For Those With Good Record New Delhi: At a time when agricultural production has become key to economic expansion, the Union Cabinet on Friday will consider a proposal to fulfil its promise of crop loans at a cheaper rate of 5% to farmers who …
NEW DELHI: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Tuesday admitted in Parliament that it could soon reduce the green belts, where coal mining is not allowed. Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh, who had earlier made a strong pitch for declaring `no-go' areas, where coal mining would …
NEW DELHI: In what could put the government on a politically difficult turf, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to answer within two weeks why cheap ration under public distribution system (PDS) to above poverty line card holders should not be abolished and the BPL category enlarged. Under …
