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. …
Ahmedabad/Pune: Alarm bells rang throughout Gujarat, as cyclone Phet intensified to a very severe cyclonic storm causing strong winds, thunderstorm and rainfall across the state in a dramatic switch from the sweltering heat on Wednesday. Phet could possibly hit Gujarat coast on Friday, the weatherman warned. Over 8,000 people were …
Civic Body Will Have To Return Rs 811Cr Taken From Traders If It Fails To Meet Deadline New Delhi: The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has put the MCD on notice. It has asked the civic body to provide parking on 3,000-odd commercial and mixed-land-use streets by August.
Paris: Scientists in Europe announced they had likely solved the case of the missing neutrinos, one of the enduring mysteries in the subatomic universe of particle physics. If confirmed in subsequent experiments, the findings challenge core precepts of the socalled Standard Model of physics, and could have major implications for …
Animal Substances Play No Role As Scientists Use A Single Protein For Breakthrough London: In a major breakthrough, scientists have cultured human embryonic stem cells under chemically controlled conditions without the use of animal substances, making way for harvesting large quantities of stem cells to treat diseases. The method has …
New Delhi: IGL and MGL, natural gas suppliers for automotive and piped cooking fuels, will raise price of CNG by Rs 5.60 per kg and PNG (piped gas) by Re 1 a unit from June 8 after the Centre on Tuesday notified last month
Jaisalmer: Continuing heatwave across swathes of Rajasthan has forced hundreds of cattle-rearers from Jaisalmer and Barmer to migrate to neighbouring states in search of meadows for their livestock. Mercury in the areas bordering Pakistan has shot up to 50 degree C and left scores of people dead. Officials said cattlerearers …
Mumbai: Left-wing extremism and insurgency are being cited as the major reason for rising number of tiger deaths reported across various reserves in the country. An assessment made by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a nodal body set up by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), reveals that …
New Delhi: In India, 8.3% of girls in the 13-15 age groups consume some form of tobacco, according to the first Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) report. Experts say that the data is indicative of the trend of an increasing number of women using tobacco products. In an attempt to …
New Delhi: Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking sealing of Mayapuri scrap market where radioactive isotope was found recently, Delhi high court has issued notice to the authorities. A division bench of HC sought response of the government on a petition by a lawyer who said people living …
HC Extends Stay, Tells Govt To Set Up Panel On Health Risk New Delhi: Noting that cellphones were no more a luxury but a part of everyday existence, the Delhi high court on Monday extended the interim stay on sealing of mobile towers till mid-September. It also directed the government …
The Three Gorges dam was so vast and sweeping a vision that nothing could stand in its way. Not the old cities of the Yangtze valley, storehouses of human toil and treasure for more than a thousand years. Not the lush, low-lying farmlands, nor the villages, nor even the pagodas …
New Delhi: To prevent the spread of water-borne diseases in summer, the Delhi high court has directed the government to tighten the noose around illegal units manufacturing and selling bottled drinking water. Justice S Muralidhar directed government agencies to crack down on units manufacturing and selling drinking water without a …
