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. …
Bill Gates Visits Flood Plains Of Kosi For A First-Hand Look Khagaria: On the sandy banks of Kosi river in north Bihar, a quiet crowd of several hundred people is waiting in the sizzling morning sun. A speck appears in the pale blue summer sky, rapidly growing in size
Suchandana Gupta | TNN Bhopal: Twenty five years after the December 3, 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, a local court will issue verdict on June 7 against the Union Carbide and other respondents in the case. CBI had chargesheeted Union Carbide Corporation, Union Carbide (India) Limited, Union Carbide (Eastern) Hong Kong, …
New Delhi: In an indictment of ham-handed approach towards infrastructure projects, the World Bank is downgrading the 412mw Rampur hydel plant being constructed in Himachal Pradesh by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd, which recently concluded its IPO, on ground of tardy progress and management slack arising from long-pending vacancies on …
Paris: People who work three hours or more of overtime per day run a 60% higher risk of bad heart problems compared to those who work regular hours, a study published in the European Heart Journal said. The findings came from a longterm research project into 6,014 British civil servants …
New Delhi: By the time Parliament opens for the monsoon session, Rajya Sabha plans to do away with most of its paperwork. Concerned over the consumption of huge quantities of paper, Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari has taken a green leap and sent out an office order to ensure minimum …
Nagpur: This could just turn out to be a master stroke to ease if not solve man-animal conflict. In a novel experiment, the Nagpur forest division officials used urine of captive tigers in the city
Mumbai: Five months after a fire broke out in a chemistry laboratory at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) in Trombay, killing two researchers, an incident of radioactive contamination took place at the establishment on Tuesday evening, which officials claimed was minor,
Astronauts will not be sent by the US to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65ft underwater. On Monday, a crew of six, including two veteran astronauts, descended to Aquarius, an undersea …
New Delhi: The central government on Tuesday informed the Delhi high court that it will soon start a centre in south Delhi to provide dialysis for treatment of HIV positive patients. Appearing for Centre, counsel Jatan Singh submitted before Justice S Muralidhar that government, along with Apollo Hospital, would start …
New Delhi: North Delhi discom NDPL on Tuesday announced the successful commissioning of its gridconnected solar power plant at Pooth Khurd, Bawana, northwest Delhi, in its distribution network. According to senior officials, the 54KW tail end gridconnected solar photo voltaic (PV) unit has been successfully synchronized with the Bawana Grid.
In what is billed to be the largest scientific instrument ever built, scientists plan to use three spacecraft flying three million miles apart to fire laser beams at each other across the emptiness of space in a bid to finally prove whether a theory proposed by Albert Einstein is correct. …
New Delhi: They may not have the glamourous tag but when it comes to cleanliness and sanitation, smaller cities like Chandigarh, Mysore, Surat, Tiruchirapalli and Jamshedpur have beaten the metros in the sanitation ratings released by the Union urban development ministry on Monday. Not surprisingly, Chandigarh is on top, followed …
