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: China has firstmover advantage but India stands to gain hugely in Afghanistan if its apparently huge mineral deposits are ready to be tapped. As reports spread about Afghanistan
Chemical, Radiation & Biological Toxicity Rampant, Says Study Balwant Garg | TNN Bathinda: After discovery of high levels of uranium in hair samples of a large number of mentally retarded children in Punjab
BP is considering putting several billion dollars into a ring-fenced cleanup fund to appease American concerns over the soaring cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The fund is one of several options to be put to the company
Ahuge, potentially life-giving sea likely covered more than a third of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a study released on Sunday. Spread over an area the size of the Atlantic Ocean, it would have straddled the north pole and contained the equivalent of a tenth of the …
Chennai/New Delhi: A string of earthquakes jolted the Andaman and Nicobar Islands over a 12-hour period on Sunday. The tremors were also felt in southern and eastern India. There was some panic but no casualties or property damage anywhere, officials said. By Sunday evening, life returned to normal in the …
Some Running For More Than 20 Years Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: Is it possible to operate hundreds of illegal mines in India for years on end without being detected or prosecuted? And can their illegal operations be legitimized in one stroke and turned into
Kabul: Britain stands ready to help BP with its clean-up efforts following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday as he came under intense pressure at home to stand up for the oil giant.
One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to …
Committee Protests Move To Amend Culpability Clause Of Foreign Suppliers New Delhi: A move by the government to delete a subclause in the civil liability for nuclear damage bill, dealing with culpability of foreign suppliers in the event of a nuclear accident, ran into fierce resistance from members of the …
Entire Op Was Hush-Hush, Says Then Aviation Director Bhopal: A day after Moti Singh, the collector of Bhopal when the deadly gas leak took place, revealed that Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson was released on orders from then state chief secretary Brahmaswaroop, then aviation director of MP government R …
At First Meet, Sonia-Led Group Decides To Go Beyond Prez Address New Delhi: Tribal development will be one of the top priorities of the reconstituted National Advisory Council (NAC) along with focus on disadvantaged groups. The group held its first meeting on Thursday with Sonia Gandhi back as chairperson. UPA
New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …
New Delhi: The Delhi government has claimed that Rs 1967.51 crore has been utilised by all departments and agencies for various projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in the past one year. The status report released by the urban development department on Thursday stated that Rs …
NCPCR project to educate slum kids scrapped midway, volunteers left in the lurch In January, when Chandni addressed a gathering in slums of Jenhangirpuri, an attentive crowd clung to every word she said.
Diggy Unwittingly Drags In Rajiv New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim. AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday stunned party circles …
