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: An alert has been sounded in the city to control the spread of dengue. With the Commonwealth Games round the corner and the fear of a dengue epidemic looming large, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said it will further intensify the spray of chemical larvicides. The …
RAIPUR: As the Centre proposes to make it mandatory for mining companies to share 26% of profits with local communities, its own largest coal producing company spent just 0.5% of its profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in 2009, according to data with Chhattisgarh government. The company, South Eastern …
NEW DELHI: A report prepared by a voluntary organization has revealed that the officials may have made a gross miscalculation in estimating the number of tourists for the Games. The report released under the title, "Humanity-Equality-Destiny? Implicating Tourism in the Commonwealth Games 2010 - prepared by a voluntary organization, Equations …
NEW DELHI: How fresh and healthy are the vegetables that you consume daily? Not much, according to the Union health ministry. In a bid to make them look garden fresh and ensure that they grow faster to reach markets, farmers are using chemicals at random that threaten to cause serious …
Govt Admits To EGoM: 61,000 Tonnes Destroyed Due To Poor Storage New Delhi: The government admitted to the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food and prices that 61,000 tonnes of foodgrain had rotted in its granaries as it was kept with poor protection for too long. The EGoM headed …
Lucknow: The VVIP district of Sultanpur comes under the scanner of Union ministry of rural development after a three-member team visiting the area last month confirmed that a chunk of NREGS grant was spent on buying tricycles, plastic balls and assorted toys to keep children of labourers engaged on work …
It Will Have To Pay Rs 130cr For Development Of Tribal Area, Env Ministry Tells SC New Delhi: The ministry of forests and environment (MoEF) on Monday told the Supreme Court that Lafarge Umiam could resume limestone mining in Meghalaya under the revised Conservation Plan and it had to pay …
Jalandhar: Relations between India and Pakistan are slowly getting cemented, literally. Cement import from Pakistan, which began three years ago mostly through the train route through the Attari border, has grown exponentially and boosted infrastructure from real estate to highways. According to All-Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association figures, while cement import …
Creation Of Artificial Tissues Will End Reliance On Donations Beijing: Chinese scientists are cultivating human cells in a laboratory in a bid to produce artificial cornea, bringing hope to over five million people suffering from corneal blindness in the country. The cornea, a vulnerable shield protecting the eye, plays a …
Gurgaon: With the government yet to find a solution to power shortage that has crippled industrial units in Udyog Vihar, industrialists in the area have decided to set up their own power plants through public-private partnership (PPP). The industry association has prepared a plan to construct four captive power plants, …
Rupali Mukherjee | TNN New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has directed pharma biggie GlaxoSmithKline to stop enrolling new subjects worldwide for conducting safety studies of controversial diabetes pill, Rosiglitazone (Avandia) till regulators decide whether the drug will be banned. In India, at least 20 cities including …
The Food Bill Is About Securing Poor Millions, Not Just Subsidy Math BY BIRAJ PATNAIK The National Advisory Council, led by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, has come up with the muchawaited contours of the National Food Security Act. The NFSA, it is hoped, will become India
New Delhi: The Union environment and forests ministry has armed itself to tighten the noose against the Vedanta project in Orissa. It has sought and received an opinion from the Attorney General that the ministry, despite a Supreme Court order, still holds the legal mandate to refuse forest clearance to …
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: In a bid to assuage growing anger among tribals that may be boosting the Naxalite cause, the government is engaged in fast-paced discussions to provide 26% equity in mining entities to the affected people where excavation of minerals takes place. The Group of Ministers …
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: A committee of secretaries headed by home secretary G K Pillai has been formed to push for speedy implementation of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act. The Act, implemented in 1996, intended to hand over greater powers to tribal communities over the land …
New Delhi: The east district police has arrested two persons, who allegedly planned to sell a leopard skin, at the Pandav Nagar area on Wednesday. They were caught after constable Yashpal received information that the two were to carry out the illegal activity near a Mother Dairy, Pandav Nagar. The …
