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. …
New Delhi: Planning Commission on Saturday initiated the exercise to formulate the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17), aiming to accelerate the economic growth to 10% against 8.1% expected in the current Plan.
Haryana to allow houses on hillock next to Damdama Any structure on the hill will block flow of rainwater, thereby endangering the future of the water body Damdama (Gurgaon): Another lake in the Aravalis may soon be consigned to oblivion. If Surajkund and Badhkal lakes succumbed to mining activities in …
NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to foot the bill for remediation, or cleaning up, of the contaminated site of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. This is expected to be among the recommendations of the group of ministers (GoM), which are to be finalized and handed over to Prime …
NEW ORLEANS: It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem. The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40% methane, compared with 5% found …
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's India blockade and an international sanctions regime in Iran may put a spanner in Indian companies' drive to exploit the mineral bonanza in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's geological wealth is not new. But Indian companies extracting minerals face a unique problem: taking the stuff out of the country. Pakistan …
NEW DELHI: Residents of 13 localities around the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal first bore the brunt of the gas leak in 1984 and are now suffering contamination of ground water by hazardous waste from the plant. "We will soon move the Supreme Court to revive the 15-year-old matter in …
New Delhi: The Centre has decided to explore the feasibility of securing the extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, besides hiking the compensation for the Bhopal gas victims who look poised to get an additional package of Rs 982.75 crore. The decisions to secure the custody and enhance …
Washington: In a novel way to fight global warming, scientists are trying how they could remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the gas deep under the sea bed where it can cause no trouble. Researchers at the University of Iceland are studying the possibility of sequestration of …
Yudhvir Rana | TNN Amritsar: Had the government acted on a Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) report released in 1995, confirming presence of uranium and other heavy metals beyond permissible limits in water samples collected from Bathinda, preventive measures could have been put in place. This is what a GNDU …
Raipur: The maize he grew on the small zig-zagged shaped patch of forest land was the only food for his family. But in 1998, the forest department picked up Bir Singh Markam, and along with 75 other men in his village in Bastar, and jailed him for illegally occupying forest …
New technologies hold the promise of benefits for society but they also carry risks. Public policy is supposed to weigh these risks and benefits and ensure that the latter outweighs the former, although this is a hard judgment to make. An important way of managing the risks is to hold …
