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. …
Wellington: New research has cast doubt on warnings that rising sea levels caused by climate change are slowly inundating low-lying Pacific islands. Scientists have studied 27 low-lying Pacific islands, comparing aerial photos from 60 years ago with modern satellite images, according to an article published in the New Scientist. Paul …
Only 5 Years Left To Meet The Target Of Millennium Development Goals At the beginning of this millennium in year 2000, 189 countries and 23 international health agencies had pledged to reduce child under-5 mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-fourths by 2015. These were called the Millennium Development …
Govt Unlikely To Free Up Fuel Pricing Regime New Delhi: Faced with opposition from key allies, the ministerial panel on fuels is unlikely to free up the motor fuel pricing regime when it meets on Monday but is almost certain to go for a marginal increase in prices of petrol …
In 6 Yrs, State Has Signed 102 Deals With Cos For Production Of Steel, Power Etc Raipur: A tussle between the Chhattisgarh government and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) over an elephant reserve has reached the Prime Minister
Ice Loss Started In Early 20th Century And Accelerated Over The Last Three Decades, Say Researchers Washington: Arctic sea ice is at its record low in the recent geologic history, a major international study has claimed. The first comprehensive history of Arctic ice, carried out by a team of scientists …
India must walk the environment-friendly road to development Jairam Ramesh Environment and development must go hand in hand. Who can disagree with this? But what is good in theory becomes contentious in practice. Sometimes a project will receive a
Bid To Scuttle Profit-Sharing Clause Nipped New Delhi: The far-reaching mines and minerals bill has survived attempts to send it back to the drawing board and is expected to be considered by the Cabinet soon following the firm intervention of PMO which has settled several contentious aspects of the proposed …
Its proximity to the Capital might have actually caused more damage to Ghaziabad than good. While it was busy dealing with its own pollution mess, a large part of Delhi
Mumbai may be the commercial capital, but the impressive growth fails to hide the grim realities of the toll on the environment. Nowhere is this more evident than the suburban region of Chembur, where pollution levels have soared. Several decades after Chembur was planned, a survey by IIT Delhi along …
First the bad news: More than half of 130 Indian cities being monitored for air pollution are at critically polluted levels. Now the good news: Air pollution in Indian cities has been proved to be reversible, with improvements in public transport or changing over to greener fuels, reducing pollution levels. …
The story of coal in northeast India is an incomplete one. For 130 years, two governments, British India and Independent India, have managed the coalfield of Tinsukia district in upper Assam. Coal India Limited took over these coalfields after they were nationalized in 1973. Other than the Margherita coalfields in …
ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, TEAM TOI TAKES A WHIFF OF THE POLLUTION CONTAMINATING THE COUNTRY For the first time, seven Indian Institutes of Technology will prepare a comprehensive river basin management plan for Ganga. The plan is being prepared for the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which is headed …
THE SUNDARBANS TERRAIN IS TURNING HOSTILE TO THE BENGAL TIGER AS SALINITY TAKES A TOLL ON THE FLORA & FAUNA Prithvijit Mitra & Achintyarup Ray | TNN Ashutosh Dali could not grow a single shoot in his field ever since it got flooded by saline water during last year
DEVELOPMENT WITH A HUMAN FACE HAS BEEN THE CREDO OF OUR DEMOCRATIC POLITY. BUT THE RIGHTS OF MILLIONS OF SONS OF THE SOIL ARE OFTEN HELD HOSTAGE TO CORPORATE GREED. THE COUNTRY
